Testseek.com have collected 66 expert reviews of the Samsung 2.5 inch 470 Series SATA300 and the average rating is 80%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Samsung 2.5 inch 470 Series SATA300.
July 2011
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Excellent sequential read and write performance*
Excellent random read IOPS / NCQ scaling performance*
Attractive and light weight brushed aluminum housing
1.8" form factor internals open up some more possibilities for those willing to get their hands
Delivers performance comparable to higher-end drives
Consistent performance
256MB DRAM cache prevents stutter
Top-notch Samsung controller
Beautiful enclosure
Samsung's 470 solid-state drive (SSD) is light and good-looking
And offers great performance. The drive supports the traditional 2.5-inch design and works in any application where other SATA hard drives with the same design are used
Competitive performance and price
Attractive chassis
Strong random writes...
The editors didn't like
Very poor performance in mixed read+write scenarios
Does not support 6Gbps SATA
Expensive
Not the fastest rated/performing drive available but not too shabby either
The Samsung 470 SSD is significantly more expensive than traditional hard drives
And its storage capacity caps at only 256GB. The drive doesn't support the new SATA 6Gbps data transfer rate
Except when compared to 'max IOPS' SandForce drives.
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...
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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Published: 2011-05-28, Author: Joe , review by: legitreviews.com
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...
Abstract: 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...
Abstract: 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...
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 an a...
Abstract: 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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Published: 2011-01-18, Author: Joe , review by: legitreviews.com
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...
