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PC World – December 2015

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XP941 is <strong>PC</strong>Ie Gen 2 (500MBps per lane), while the SM951 is <strong>PC</strong>Ie Gen<br />

3 (1GBps) <strong>PC</strong>Ie. But even the x4 <strong>PC</strong>Ie 2.0 provides 2GBps of bandwidth,<br />

so that can hardly explain the entire disparity.<br />

20GB copy tests<br />

Operating system copies from RAM disk<br />

20GB Folder<br />

Write<br />

36<br />

51<br />

51<br />

57<br />

65<br />

20GB Folder<br />

Read<br />

43<br />

45<br />

59<br />

54<br />

76<br />

20GB Write<br />

15<br />

17<br />

21<br />

25<br />

36<br />

20GB Read<br />

15<br />

15<br />

20<br />

21<br />

30<br />

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80<br />

SECONDS (SHORTER BARS ARE FASTER)<br />

Samsung SM951<br />

<strong>PC</strong>Ie AHCI<br />

Samsung SM951<br />

<strong>PC</strong>Ie NVMe<br />

Kingston HyperX<br />

Predator <strong>PC</strong>Ie<br />

Samsung XP941<br />

<strong>PC</strong>Ie AHCI<br />

Plextor<br />

M6e<br />

All these drives are faster than SATA-bound SSDs, writing a single large file, but the Plextor<br />

M6e is actually slower than some when it came to writing small files and folders.<br />

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