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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Ninhalem - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - link
I'm going to ask a slightly noob question: would it be possible to use these drives with the Z77 series if there was an update to the UEFI bios to recognize these drives in addition to Samsung providing the right drivers?wownotown - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - link
I have used a OCZ Revodrive for the last 2 years and love the performance over PCI-Express. Now that this is native with no bridge, it should be nice. Hopefully boot times improve with this tech. One the OCZ, you have a BIOS which adds 8 or more seconds to the boot time, which is nothing to complain about too much, but it would be nice to just boot into the OS, without the additional delays. I little pricey for me, but once competition enters the market, they will have to drop prices.landerf - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - link
Could you please alert Samsung to the fact consumers will want these in black PCB color. As soon as one starts doing it the others will follow.dstarr3 - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - link
I'll never understand why anyone gives a toss what the inside of their computer looks like.pipja - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - link
some people have naked setups...Jay77 - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - link
Doesn't one of the new Asrock Z97 boards have an M.2 connector that runs at pcie 3.0 x4? Stick that thing in there and see if boots!RamCity - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - link
On page two of this review, Kristian confirmed that the XP941 is bootable in the ASRock X97 Extreme6. They'll have a separate review of that motherboard in a review soon.RamCity - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - link
I mean ASRock Z97 Extreme 6!BMNify - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - link
MR city, do you happen to have any of those Everspin ST-MRAM DDR3 DIMMs has to hit equal density with consumer DIMMs aka these or their updates http://www.extremetech.com/computing/140318-eversp...id like you or anand (not while he's dunking biscuits in his tea OC :) to test them two/four sticks etc today and confirm they are far faster than NAND etc.... please
RamCity - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - link
Looks like interesting tech! Maybe there'll be a sneak preview at Computech in July.Rod