Ssd

[lionwing]

I am looking to purchase a new laptop (Optimus VIII) with a SSD.

Looking at the various options read / write speeds stand out as a defining performance.

The Samsung range of SSD's (PM & SM) stand out with read / write speeds north of 2800MB/R / 1600MB/W

Other SSD's (Sandisk / Kingston / Intel) generally hover around the 500MB mark for both read and write.

With the Samsung offering not been significantly more expensive am I missing something in understanding the performance of SSD's?

Thanks.

 

[steaky360]

Could be different controllers or potentially that some of the drives are using SATA6 over the new M.2 interface.

LTT 'As Fast As Possible' did a good video on M.2 drives which goes into some of these differences;
[video=youtube;opwON-7J_wI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opwON-7J_wI[/video]

 

[lionwing]

Brilliant...all my questions answered!