Saturday, April 16, 2011

Newer MacBook Airs shipping with faster Samsung SSDs

Apple was found on Friday to have given a low-key but significant speed boost to the solid-state drives in newer MacBook Air production runs. Most batches have been using Toshiba's X-Gale SSD, but AnandTech saw a more recent model using what's likely a Samsung-made 470 series drive. The 128GB example is much faster in sustained reads and writes, jumping from about 210MB per second and 176MB per second respectively in the old Toshiba SSD to 261MB per second and 210MB per second in the Samsung storage....

Source: http://feeds.macnn.com/click.phdo?i=9213c5e23ca000582da234b40b70b7e7

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