[wtallis]

The 960 EVO is a consumer grade SSD with firmware tuned for bursts of I/O (through eg. the use of SLC write caching) at the expense of sustained write throughput. It doesn't have power loss protection capacitors, so it can't perform safe write caching when you're issuing synchronous writes. 4kB is much smaller than the underlying page size of its NAND flash, so performance is going to suck without write combining. You're testing it in shackles, with a workload that doesn't at all match its intended use case. That doesn't make it a joke, it just makes it the wrong kind of drive to use for stereotypical enterprise applications.

[olavgg]

So what is the use case for this drive? The 960 Evo/Pro are supposed to be premium models, but a better investment would be a cheaper SSD drive with more storage. And if you rarely write that much, more ram will increase the read speed significantly.

[basch]

a consumer pc.

the pro does not have the buffer the evo does. the evo is not a premium model, it is entry level cutting edge

[olavgg]

That is not very specific, a consumer PC would be fine with a 750 Evo also, maybe two of them in raid 0 for twice the sequential read & write speed. I believe for most consumers, having more SSD storage per $ is more important.

[basch]

a 750 evo is a sata drive, a 950 is an nvme drive. completely different technology. if my laptop has an nvme slot why would i buy a sata drive. 2 750s is not faster than 1 950