Samsung SSD XP941 Review: The PCIe Era Is Here
by Kristian Vättö on May 15, 2014 12:00 PM ESTPerformance vs. Transfer Size
ATTO is a useful tool for quickly benchmarking performance across various transfer sizes. You can get the complete data set in Bench. The XP941 doesn't perform that well at the smaller transfer sizes but once we go over 8KB, there is no question about which drive is the fastest. At the IO size of 64KB, the XP941 is already reaching 1GB/s for read and it stays at ~1050MB/s for all the larger IOs. Write performance isn't as good but still reaches 1GB/s when the IO size is large enough.
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jimjamjamie - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - link
Looking forward to these hitting mainstream, though it will be quite strange plugging storage drives into PCIe slots..Impulses - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - link
Can't wait for the "is it ok to sandwich this SSD between my two scorching hot R9 290?" posts!pipja - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - link
rofl can't wait for that day to come, but then it'd be some R1000 980750235 something :pLordOfTheBoired - Friday, May 16, 2014 - link
Isn't the R1000 980750235 just a rebadged 7770?Antronman - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - link
Clearly you haven't tested any Fusion iO products.Kristian Vättö - Saturday, May 17, 2014 - link
Fusion IO doesn't make any drives that are aimed for the client market.snark9a - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - link
Can I install one in my 2013 rMBP?SirKnobsworth - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - link
No. Apple uses a proprietary connector so an M.2 SSD won't fit. I believe aftermarket solutions are becoming available though - maybe from OWC?darwinosx - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - link
Aftermarket solutions for Apple devices have been available for a long time.Penti - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - link
They still does not have one for PCIe-based Macs.