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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Random performance ties in with latency, what makes your computer feel fast or not. It's hard to believe, but the latest M.2-attached SSDs exceed 12,000 random read IOPS at a queue depth of one. On the line chart, we see that all three SM951s outperform Samsung's specifications. And again, the two lower-capacity models deliver better performance than Lenovo's.
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Chris Ramseyer was a senior contributing editor for Tom's Hardware. He tested and reviewed consumer storage.