DimitriKatsaros
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Q: What are the read write speeds of the new Mac Pro's storage options?
The subject line says it all.. I would hate to go for the 1TB option only to have it be slower than the 512GB.
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The hatter
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Samsung starts mass producing PCIe SSDs with 1400MB/s read speeds By Matthew Humphries Jun. 17, 2013 11:27 am
When the new MacBook Air got the teardown treatment last week, there wasn’t much different from the previous model apart from the addition of a Haswell processor, bigger battery, dual microphones, and a new SSD.
In fact, it’s that SSD that was the most unexpected new component, as it saw Apple switch from a SATA to a PCIe-connected storage solution.
That faster storage solution isn’t going to be limited to MacBook Airs , though. The PCIe SSD was supplied to Apple by Samsung, and Samsung has today announced it is already mass producing the drives.
The new drive is known as the XP941 and Samsung will offer it in 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB configurations. It achieves read speeds of 1,400MB/s, which clocks it at 2.5x faster than a SATA SSD. It also only weighs 6 grams and measures 80 x 22mm. Samsung claims it only takes up a 7th of the space occupied by a typical 2.5-inch SSD.
With Samsung being the only company currently boasting mass production of such drives, supplies may be stretched depending on how many manufacturers decide to use them.
Apple is surely already taking a large chunk of the stock every month already, leaving everyone else to fight over the rest.
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It depends a lot on the pattern, and also what type of file, what any particular benchmark too. Intech SpeedTools gives you more flexability in read and write file tests - SSD writes are highly variable, it is the high IOPS and high reads that boost a system so much.
People that were using PCIe SSD 6G and multiple SSDs have found that Aperture, Lightroom, Photoshop scratch AND having the system on their SSD run smoothly, fast, even faster than those "olde" SATA3 6G controllers they were using to get 800-900MB/sec.
I just don't think you looked on Barefeats or Googled long enough to find some reviews, and there have been more - the large Anandtech review of the nMP is a good start.
Lightroom Perspective:
http://tony-hart.com/blog/essays/2014/01/mac-pro-a-lightroom-perspective/
Aperture, Lightroom and Capture One
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1542274
Unboxed and Tested
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1692536
nMP review from a 3,1 owner |
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1695308
Anandtech's Big review
