Samsung SSD960 PRO 2TB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD Review

The front of the box has a part image of the drive with a sticker displaying the capacity. The back of the box has the length of warranty displayed along with multilingual notes informing that more detailed warranty and product information is available on Samsung's website.

The only thing bundled with the drive is an installation and warranty guide.

With the 4-Landing design, the drive's components are all built onto one side of the PCB and all are in-house Samsung designs. The four 512GB NAND packages sit alongside the Polaris controller which has the 2GB LP-DDR3 cache IC built on top of it.

The launch of the 960 PRO sees a new updated version of Samsung's Magician SSD management software. The new version (which currently only supports the SSD960) has been graphically enhanced with a better interface to make it easier to use. It includes two new features – Secure File Erase and Magic Vault.

Secure File Erase does exactly what it says on the tin; individual files can be selection for deletion, and once deleted cannot be restored. With Magic Vault, an area of the drive can be set aside and password-protected to store sensitive information. Once set up, the Magic Vault area of the drive becomes invisible to the OS.

This new version of the software will not be available until November but we saw screen shots of it at the 2016 Samsung SSD Summit and its new interface does look much easier to use.

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