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Apple using old Toshiba SSDs on some MacBook Airs

"The practical impact of the different drives may be negligible. Performance differences are most likely to appear in certain file transfers and operations where the extra speed would be noticeable. Apple might not introduce more noticeable improvements until it starts using next-wave SSDs, many of which can currently hit 500MB per second and up."
 
wait then won't that mean all the new batches being shipped out of china will most likely have the newer Samsungs then? :D After all it would make sense for them to get all the old toshibas out of the way then start using samsungs.
 
Obscurelight said:
wait then won't that mean all the new batches being shipped out of china will most likely have the newer Samsungs then? :D After all it would make sense for them to get all the old toshibas out of the way then start using samsungs.
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I have been wondering the same question. Will the later ones have the Samsung SSDs?
I just ordered mine from the Apple online store.
 
According to tldtoday, read speeds in the two chips differ about 100 megs in read and about 60 megs in write. If those numbers are to be believed, that's almost 1/3 difference in read and 1/4 difference in write speeds. That would seem like a pretty big difference to me, but perhaps I'm missing something.

Check the video
 
Well sweet Jesus... So, what do you expect? Stupid samsung cannot make enough SSD, so Apple had to order some from Toshiba.
 
If I get a late technology ssd, I might not take it back, but I will ask for a discount on my order.
 
Ultimately what can one do?

I have an i7 with a Toshiba SSD. If I go back to the store and request the Samsung SSD, what exactly is the store manager supposed to do? Open all i7 MBAs he/she's got start them up and see if they have an SM SSD. And if he/she doesn't find any Samsung ones, order for all those in the storage to be open and checked in the same way?...


This is not a smart ass question..

I am just wondering about practical ways to solve the issue... if really there is one...

To be honest, I can't say that I wish to settle for the second best, for the same money :)

But, what is one to do?
 
Typswif2fingers said:
Ultimately what can one do?

I have an i7 with a Toshiba SSD. If I go back to the store and request the Samsung SSD, what exactly is the store manager supposed to do? Open all i7 MBAs he/she's got start them up and see if they have a SM SSD. And if he/she doesn't find any Samsung ones, order for all those at the storage to be open and checked in the same way...

This is not a smart ass question..

I am just wondering about practical ways to solve the issue... if really there is one...

To be honest, I can't say that I wish to settle for the second best, for the same money :)

But, what is one to do?
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Honestly, if the difference is actually 25% on the ssd's. I would have no problem for asking $100 back. That's about what I paid for getting the 1.8 over the 1.7. If i'm not getting all my money's worth I want something back.
 
rkahl said:
Honestly, if the difference is actually 25% on the ssd's. I would have no problem for asking $100 back. That's about what I paid for getting the 1.8 over the 1.7. If i'm not getting all my money's worth I want something back.
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I understand that.. but, let us for argument sake say that I don't want the money, rather I want the Samsung SSD because I am a power user and I think that it is unfair that some people can do more for the same money with same type of machine due to a faster SSD etc.

The issue still remains..

What I was wondering is what the practical solutions would be to get an MBA with a Samsung SSD...

Again, I am not arguing, nor am I being a smart ass... I am just exploring this...

Any ideas?
 
Samsung much faster than Toshiba flash storage

Here's some interesting results from the QuickBench Custom Sequential Test (1G test size):

2010 MacBook Air with 256G Toshiba flash storage:
212MB/s READ, 187MB/s WRITE (average of 5 cycles)

2011 MacBook Air with 256G Samsung flash storage:
271MB/s READ, 252MB/s WRITE (average of 5 cycles)

If any of you have the 2011 MacBook Air with the 128G or 256G Toshiba, contact me so I can provide what you need to test your flash storage to see if it's any different from the 2010 MacBook Air numbers we got.
 
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barefeats said:
Here's some interesting results from the QuickBench Custom Sequential Test (1G test size):

2010 MacBook Air with 256G Toshiba flash storage:
212MB/s READ, 187MB/s WRITE (average of 5 cycles)

2011 MacBook Air with 256G Samsung flash storage:
271MB/s READ, 252MB/s WRITE (average of 5 cycles)

If any of you have the 2011 MacBook Air with the 128G or 256G Toshiba, contact me so I can provide what you need to test your flash storage.
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Could you do some real world tests? Booting, copying, launching large applications?

As you probably know sequential speeds are not that relevant for daily usage.
 
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