I am absolutely blown away by my new Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD! I put it in the ThinkPad tonight to replace a 5400 RPM 1TB SSHD and the performance is incredible!
This SSD costs just £90 yet is the fastest SSD I've ever owned. I think it's the first one I've ever owned that has broken the 500MB/s read barrier and it is very close to 500MB/s write, too:
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ThinkPad Review, on Flickr
Compared to the Vertex 4 128GB in my desktop that was 'the god of yesterday' (I'm pretty sure it was the fastest consumer SSD on the market before the 840 drives came out), the 840 EVO blows the Vertex 4 into oblivion...
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ThinkPad Review, on Flickr
And of course, the 840's RAPID mode is always very impressive indeed, but with this being a laptop and RAPID apparently using 1GB of RAM and one CPU core, I disabled it after the running the benchmark:
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ThinkPad Review, on Flickr
I highly recommend this SSD! :good:
I've probably got one of the fastest ThinkPads in the country now.