Samsung's 830 Series is a worthy alternative to the myriad of "SandForce Driven" SSDs on the market today. Instead of using off the shelf components, Samsung has designed and built everything, including the MCX controller, Toggle Mode NAND flash and DDR2 SDRAM cache, entirely in house. The end result is an attractive, ultra-slim drive with good, all around performance. In our sequential read and write tests, the 128GB version of the SSD 830 was able to read at speeds as high as 547 MB/s and write at speeds in excess of 320 MB/s. The drive's performance wasn't nearly as impressive when doing random writes. However, it performed equally well with compressible and incompressible data and was able to sustain these speeds, even after intensive use.



Link: CDR Labs