Samsung SSD XP941 Review: The PCIe Era Is Here
by Kristian Vättö on May 15, 2014 12:00 PM ESTAnandTech Storage Bench 2011
Back in 2011 (which seems like so long ago now!), we introduced our AnandTech Storage Bench, a suite of benchmarks that took traces of real OS/application usage and played them back in a repeatable manner. The MOASB, officially called AnandTech Storage Bench 2011 - Heavy Workload, mainly focuses on peak IO performance and basic garbage collection routines. There is a lot of downloading and application installing that happens during the course of this test. Our thinking was that it's during application installs, file copies, downloading and multitasking with all of this that you can really notice performance differences between drives. The full description of the Heavy test can be found here, while the Light workload details are here.
The same goes for our 2011 Storage Bench: the XP941 is unbeatable. Only in the Light Workload test, the 8-controller OCZ behemoth is able to beat the XP941 by a small margin, but other than that there's nothing that can challenge the XP941. The consumer-oriented OCZ RevoDrive comes close but the XP941 once again shows how a good single controller design can beat any RAID 0 configuration.
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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.