Samsung SSD 840 EVO mSATA (120GB, 250GB, 500GB & 1TB) Review
by Kristian Vättö on January 9, 2014 1:35 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 EVO mSATA is top of the class at all transfer sizes. Even though we're dealing with highly compressible data, which is the strength of SandForce, the EVO mSATA turns out to be slightly faster than the Intel SSD 525. Keep in mind that these tests are with an empty drive so TurboWrite plays a massive role and since the test only writes 2GB, all EVO mSATAs perform similarly regardless of the capacity.
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5mpx - Friday, January 10, 2014 - link
I recently picked up a Samsung 840 Pro 120GB for around $115 to replace the absolutely dreadful Samsung 1TB 5400RPM w/ 8GB SanDisk iSSD ExpressCache (which also seemed absolutely useless) on mainboard.Couldn't be happer - my Core i7 actually has to do some work now instead of sitting around waiting on the drive to feed it data.
dgingeri - Thursday, January 9, 2014 - link
I bet a ship from the future crashed in Seoul, and Samsung is out there reverse engineering technology from it to dominate the technology market. ;)Jarn - Thursday, January 9, 2014 - link
With these speeds, I just go with whichever of the seemingly most reliable brands are cheapest.BigAnvil - Friday, January 10, 2014 - link
Please, oh please, oh please, oh please... let someone make a miniature RAID box for mSata SSDs!!!!!!!!! Room for five mSata SSDs like this with striping and either a Thunderbolt 2 or USB 3.1 interface so we can all have multi-Gigabyte/sec transfer rates that can fit in ur shirt pocketses.Brenderick - Saturday, February 15, 2014 - link
http://www.mfactors.com/raid-card-msata/Not five, but it will cram a pair of them under a RAID controller into a 2.5 inch package. You could, in theory, RAID three of these together in a NAS and you would have what you are describing.
a1exh - Friday, January 10, 2014 - link
Samsung are not the only Vertically Integrated provider in consumer SSD space. Toshiba is also.Kristian Vättö - Friday, January 10, 2014 - link
Toshiba doesn't make their own controllers, they are just rebrands.Brenderick - Saturday, February 15, 2014 - link
Lacks controller IP.unclebump2013 - Friday, January 10, 2014 - link
it does exist. http://addonics.com/products/ad4mspx2.phpextide - Friday, January 10, 2014 - link
No, that's for mSATA, not M.2