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The Samsung SM951 AHCI M.2 PCIe SSDs might be the most talked about enthusiast SSD at this moment, but what about the Samsung SM951 NVMe drives? If you thought the OEM-only Samsung SM951 AHCI drives was tough to purchase you will likely lose some hair trying to find someone that has the Samsung SM951 NVMe drives available to purchase today. Though the SM951 NVMe drive is not available through retail channel just yet, we managed to get our hands on one and have been using it on a number of systems over the past few weeks.



Article Title: Samsung SM951 NVMe M.2 PCIe SSD Review
Article URL: http://www.legitreviews.com/samsung-sm9 ... iew_162219

Samsung sent us a new drive that contains an updated firmware that has some obvious changes in the way this particular NVMe drive handles Force Unit Access (FUA) I/O write commands. Our overall performance score shot up from 4394 to 5088 and the storage bandwidth score went from 97.48 MB/s to an impressive 616.76 MB/s. This is a huge performance increase!


Original Firmware:



New Firmware: