Samsung 950 PRO vs Intel 750 PCI-e

[Matias_Chambers]

Which one is faster? 

[AirlessTHEGOOSE]

Is budget a concern here? My first instinct says Intel, but what's the rest of the system look like?

[Matias_Chambers]

1 minute ago, AirlessTHEGOOSE said:

Is budget a concern here? My first instinct says Intel, but what's the rest of the system look like?

I'm not buying any of them at the moment I was just wondering

[Damocles]

intel's 750 has the potential to be faster than the 950. But depending on your configuration, you might be slower than the 950. On average, the 750 is faster in both reads and writes by about 200 MB/s. However, we're at speeds of 2+GB/s reads and around 1+-GB/s writes, so the difference is hardly noticeable here.

[AirlessTHEGOOSE]

Ah, gotcha. I mean, I'm not an SSD expert per se, but I think you're splitting hairs honestly. Both are high end SSDs that will give beastly performance

[knightslugger]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Productcompare.aspx?CompareItemList=636|20-249-078^20-249-078%2C20-147-467^20-147-467%2C20-167-359^20-167-359

 

trying to compare apples to apples. the intel has much higher IOPS and a slightly lower write speed, but matches the samsung on reads.

[Damocles]

I personally have the 950 pro 256 GB version, and I can say that I never need more than 100MB/s writes. The reads are what you're interested in for consumer use so any choice is good. For content creation I'd look into writes. But the 950 512 GB version is faster in writes against the 750, while the 256 GB version is significantly slower on writes.

[knightslugger]

With the Plextor M8PEG released today, Samsung is going to have to drop their price on the 950Pro to make it more appealing... b'cuz you get a nearly identical product, with a higher MTBF and IOPS writes for nearly $50 less Apples to Apples.