Samsung SM951 128GB And 256GB SSD Review
Samsung's SM951 is the hottest storage product on the market. Today we look at the two smaller versions, both of which still perform better than SATA.
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After watching the SM951 dominate our synthetic tests, we aren't surprised to see it at the top of our real-world benchmarks as well. The results from PCIe-based M.2-attached drives are even tighter than what we gathered from SATA-based drives. This really goes to show that if you are not multitasking or writing enough data to induce steady state conditions, you won't notice a lot of difference between this class of SSDs.
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Chris Ramseyer was a senior contributing editor for Tom's Hardware. He tested and reviewed consumer storage.