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CrunchDude · 07-19-2010, 08:46 PM

hki is correct. When I ran those speed tests, I had a ThinkPad W700, which supports SATA II. I have yet another machine now, an iMac, which will support those kinds of speeds again, too.

What you want to pay close attention to are the 4K blocks, as most files read and written by an operating system are small in size. You will only get those large sequential speeds when you're transferring big files. How often does that happen? These high sequential speeds are mostly used for marketing purposes.

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CrunchDude Notebook Evangelist Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 303 Rep Power: 14	Re: Samsung 128GB SSD vs. Intel 80GB X18-M...benchies! ;) hki is correct. When I ran those speed tests, I had a ThinkPad W700, which supports SATA II. I have yet another machine now, an iMac, which will support those kinds of speeds again, too. What you want to pay close attention to are the 4K blocks, as most files read and written by an operating system are small in size. You will only get those large sequential speeds when you're transferring big files. How often does that happen? These high sequential speeds are mostly used for marketing purposes. __________________ 2011 Mac mini Quad Core i7-2635QM 2GHz \| OWC Mercury EXTREME Pro 6G SSD w/ Toshiba Toggle NAND; SF FW v3.20 \| 8GB DDR3-1333 RAM \| Dual-boot OS X 10.7.1 / Windows 7 Ultimate x64 ThinkPad T60p: 15" S-IPS AFFS UXGA, T7600 Core 2 Duo 2.33GHz \| 4GB DDR2 RAM \| Atheros AR5008X 802.11n \| Windows 7 64-bit