difference between PCIe-based flash storage and SSD

[gabo864]

What is the difference between PCIe-based flash storage,SSD, and Fusion drive?

Thanks.

 

[tubeexperience]

PCIe-based flash storage (SSD)
SAMSUNG 950 PRO M.2 512GB PCI-Express 3.0 x4
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147467

SATA-based flash storage (SSD)
SAMSUNG 850 EVO SATA III
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147372

Fusion drive
SATA-based SSD + HDD

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PCIe-based flash storage has faster read and write speed than does SATA-based flash storage.

 

[Gav2k]

Speed and cost is the difference.

Pci-e - fastest
Ssd - fast
Fusion - as fast as ssd for most tasks
Hdd - .................slow

 

[tubeexperience]

Fusion - as fast as ssd for most tasks

False

 

[Gav2k]

False

Pardon

 

[Samuelsan2001]

What is the difference between PCIe-based flash storage,SSD, and Fusion drive?

Thanks.

PCIe connected ssd's have a better bandwidth due to the PCIe connection and so have far higher sequential read/write speeds, while this looks great on marketing it makes little difference to most work cases over a SATA 3 connected SSD. Fusion drives are actually a software solution to organising the data on 2 drives a PCIe connected SSD and a normal hard drive in the iMacs, although this can be enabled on any 2 drives installed in a Mac even 2 ssd's.

 

[yugioh5d]

False

Pardon

Fusion SSD speed is not the same as pure SSD according to the benchmark tests. However, normal tasks or usage should show no difference in their performance because we are not using all that speed.

 

[ljjycss]

Older generation ssd isn't fast enough to reach bandwidth limit of sata3 interface, so there wasn't a problem. When ssd becomes faster, a faster interface is needed. That's pcie. Normally pcie based ssd is faster on both reading and writing comparing to sata based ssd. Fusion drive is apple's hybrid drive. It is combination of a small ssd and a large hdd. Frequently accessed files are stored in ssd. ssd also serves as a writing buffer. A very small portion of ssd is used as buffer zone. File is written into buffer zone first, then transported to hdd in background so you won't notice the slow down. A very large file could use up that buffer zone, reducing writing speed to hdd level. Also, if you launch a rarely accessed file, it would be very slow.

 

[maflynn]

False

I found my Fusion drive to be near SSD speeds. The boot up of OS X, is blazingly quick. My apps fire up with little to no bounce. I'm finding the Fusion drive to be fairly quick. I may not be testing the speed scientifically but compared to my MBP with a SSD, many of the tasks are just as fast.