Samsung 950 Pro SSD Review

[dimitriz]

Did you remember to go into the advanced BIOS settings and set the port correctly? I believe on the ASUS Z170 boards the M.2 port both defaults to SATA *and* shares path with some of the SATA ports that would need to be disabled.

So today I got my Samsung 950 PRO 512GB.
Samsung software is MIA.
Used Active@Boot(latest version) to clone my 3 day old installation of Windows 10 on Samsung 850 PRO.
Booting from 950 I get nothing but BSODs with random errors. Windows 10 repair wont fix anything.
Ugh, will try a different cloning software tomorrow.

All this on a new ASUS Z170-AR.

Yeah, the board shares some SATA ports with M.2 so I had to set in BIOS to M.2.
However for some reason Active@Boot cloning sucks!
2nd time on a critical issue like that.
I downloaded a free EaseUS cloning and it cloned without any issues.

Been running 950 for 2 days now. Seems a bit snappier then 850 PRO.
Will do some more testing next week.

 

[tjernagel]

I installed a 950pro on an Asus Rampage V Extreme running an Intel I7-5960x cpu but am getting slower speeds than expected. It's fast... but not as fast as advertised. I'm still searching the web for clues on what the issue is.

Strangely the BIOS sees it as boot drive but doesn't see under the Advanced NVMe Configuration screen.

Running a clean installation of Win10...

 

[Paul Doyle]

Does anyone know if Windows 8.1 can be installed on the 950 at the first time of the motherboard is used. Or do we need to install an OS to format the ssd then reinstall the OS?

X99 asus deluxe
5930
950 Pro M.2
2 980ti
2800 mem 32g

Thanks!

 

[tjernagel]

Windows 8.1 is UEFI. I installed it on Windows 10 (also UEFI) following the guidance of this YouTube video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No-ct8pQcIg

I have an ASUS Rapage V Extreme (x99). No it does not have to the operating system on it first. I found it better to perform a clean install.

It's a great add to your rig!

Does anyone know if Windows 8.1 can be installed on the 950 at the first time of the motherboard is used. Or do we need to install an OS to format the ssd then reinstall the OS?

X99 asus deluxe
5930
950 Pro M.2
2 980ti
2800 mem 32g

Thanks!