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When you think of solid-state drives (SSDs), Samsung is not the first name to come to mind. But judging by its 470 Series line of SSDs, that might well change soon. Though the line is based on 3Gbps SATA II rather than the newer and faster 6Gbps SATA I...
Delivers performance comparable to higher-end drives...
Does not support 6Gbps SATA...
With its entirely home-grown 470 Series SSDs, Samsung stakes a compelling claim to supremacy in the SSD market...
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Although the market is overrun by new solid state drives that support the SATA 6 Gbit/s interface, there are but very few users who really need them. On the other hand, the huge army of notebook owners (and desktop users too) would be willing to upgrad...
The 256MB SSD from Samsung’s 470 series is quite a surprise to us. One might think that the market is ruled by Intel’s products or by SSDs based on SandForce controllers but that’s not true. Some manufacturers have got something up their sleeve such a...
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Back in January following CES, we had a look at Samsung's 470 Series SSD which performed very well in our tests in comparison to other SATA II drives. Our readers have asked numerous times if we could take a longer term look at an SSD to see how the...
Originally, we show zero hours logged on the drive and ended with 2014 hours with 59 power on counts according to CrystalDiskMark Info. The drive was loaded to about half full with 112 GB of capacity used with apps, games, photos, movies and other con...
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Page 1 of 2 Samsung has been manufacturing memory and SSD-drive storage controllers for years. In recent months the South Korean electronics giant quietly began shipping a branded line of SSD drives for consumer and retail markets that should make rese...
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At the very least, the Samsung 470 SSD should win in the "best looking SSD" category We got our hands on the Samsung 470 SSD (256GB) and it’s time for a field trip. This SSD drive targets the “enthusiast” market: in other words, users who will upgrade...
3 Months after its initial launch, the Samsung 470 SSD remains a very fast solid state drive, and the numbers show that it can offer great performance for the price, and decent capacity (for the price). At $499, this 256GB model is still expensive in...
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For years Samsung has made hard drives and great hard drives at that, their only problem is most people don’t realize they make hard drives. Well they do and have been for years in fact if you buy an OEM system chances are it has a Samsung HDD in it...
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With just about every major technology company jumping on the solid state drive gravy train, it was only a matter of time before one landed on our desk with the Samsung brand name proudly displayed. After all, Samsung is no stranger to storage devic...
Samsung really surprised us with their 256GB 470 Series solid state drive. It performed above expectations on nearly every benchmark and kept pace with the SandForce drives that seem to the darling of the industry right now. Barring more data on long...
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Samsung’s first retail SSD comes out swinging Samsung has long been a player in solid-state drives, but usually behind the scenes. As one of the largest flash memory makers on the planet, of course, its NAND modules have been used in many SSDs, and it’...
Competitive performance and price; attractive chassis; strong random writes...
Except when compared to 'max IOPS' SandForce drives.
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Samsung recently introduced their newest generation SSD line, dubbed the '470 Series'. We hadn't received any drives direct from Samsung in the past, so after some reaching out, we obtained a sample for testing: This is the first Samsung SSD to com...
Samsung's new 470 Series is absolutely a step above the previous generation. Sequential write speeds are among the fastest we've tested. The new controller enables a significant random read IOPS boost at higher queue depths. While our tests showed...
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ManufacturerSamsungModel470 SeriesPrice (street)$550AvailabilityNowSamsung makes quite a lot of different products. Their name is emblazoned on the plasma television that sits in my living room, my girlfriend's cellphone, and my sister's camcorder. The...
In the realm of solid-state drives, Samsung's 470 Series is unique. It's the only one we've seen with Toggle DDR NAND, and the first SSD to hit our labs with dual cache chips. Throw in a fresh controller with potential ARM cores under the hood, and we'...
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Samsung has been playing in the consumer SSD space longer than most people know. It was their early SSDs that graced the likes of Sony ultraportable notebooks and found their way in other high-end premium builds from many other brands. But not until r...
The Samsung impressed us start to finish with the new 256GB SSD 470 Series retail kit. For their first introduction into the retail market they did an amazing job with the design of the SSD, down to the packaging that the drive is sold in. In a market...
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In some ways, Samsung is a silicon ninja in the solid state drive (SSD) space. How so you ask? While most of the competition is all too happy to blitz the SSD market amid much fanfare and ballyhooing, Samsung just quietly does its thing and usually fl...
With all the hype surrounding the Indilinx Barefoot and SandForce controllers, we have to give kudos to Samsung where they are due, for putting together an impressive SSD controller of its own. That's no easy task, as evidenced by JMicron's early trou...
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It’s not often you find an internal drive where the manufacturer has given obvious thought to aesthetics, but Samsung’s new 256GB 470 Series SSD bucks the trend. From its Apple-style packaging to its distinctive casing, the SSD certainly stands out fro...
With an RRP of around $550, the 256GB 470 Series SSG certainly isn’t cheap. However, what you do get is a solid, well-balanced shot of performance in not only read-rates, as most SSDs (and indeed faster HDDs) manage, but in write-rates, which is a rar...
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We've been following the evolution of solid-state drives for some time now, highlighting the most relevant offerings at any given time, and noting the impact that newer controllers have had in improving performance. The first and most significant step...
The Samsung 470 Series 256GB has certainly surprised us. This quiet achiever came from nowhere to dominate our performance charts with stellar performance. In terms of raw performance the Samsung 470 Series is right up there with the popular Crucial R...
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In-Depth Review John F. Braun 3:00 PM ET, Mar. 6th, 2012 TMO Talk (4) Articles by Author John F. Braun on Twitter Contact Author Bio Tweet Comments (1) Initial Impression The 470 Series comes in a clear plastic container, the drive contained in a fo...
The Samsung 470 Series SSD shows a clear performance advantage on our Macs, even one that don’t have the latest SATA II bus supported by this SSD. Due to the relatively low power draw when compared to our rotational hard drive, we noted a significant...
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Solid state drives are getting faster, more capacious, and falling in price with each passing week. Within the next 1-3 years, SSD's will be big enough and cheap enough to finally move over to the masses instead of being an enthusiast-only product. WIth t...
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Upgrading a computer with a solid state drive (SSD) is one of the best ways of boosting its real world performance across the board. Today we are going to review and compare two of the latest 256 GB SSDs on the market from Samsung and Kingston. Both dr...
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The SSD market continues evolving. We got our hands on six drives we hadn't yet tested, including Samsung’s 470-series, and ran them through our...
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It only takes one or two modern SSDs to outperform business-class RAID arrays with four or eight hard drives. We're running a full comparison and...
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![Samsung 470 Series 2.5" 128 GB Serial ATA Internal Solid State Drives (MZ-5PA128B/EU)](https://images.icecat.biz/img/brand/thumb/26_b33ee7dcd7e0486f8ad82075f31e4bee.jpg "Samsung 470 Series 2.5" 128 GB Serial ATA Internal Solid State Drives (MZ-5PA128B/EU)")
