Why is this device so slow ?
I am extremely disappointed with this SSD.
Apart from the issue with the unable to reboot (device not detected on reboot)
it's very slow, I can't believe it, something is wrong !
I was hoping for a performance boost, this is ridiculous.
Here are the results for Intel SSD 530 240Gb
Results 56.75
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.9 (13A603)
Physical RAM 8192 MB
Model Macmini4,1
Drive Type INTEL SSDSC2BW240A4
Disk Test 56.75
Sequential 37.20
Uncached Write 371.49 228.09 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 55.47 31.39 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 14.01 4.10 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 64.81 32.58 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 119.56
Uncached Write 130.65 13.83 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 86.43 27.67 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 117.97 0.84 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 173.79 32.25 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Here is the Macbook Air 2010 stock SSD 128Gb
Results 295.13
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.9 (13A603)
Physical RAM 4096 MB
Model MacBookAir4,2
Drive Type APPLE SSD SM128C
Disk Test 295.13
Sequential 181.97
Uncached Write 228.29 140.17 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 289.90 164.03 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 84.75 24.80 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 425.15 213.68 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 780.50
Uncached Write 755.91 80.02 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 502.32 160.81 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 1607.90 11.39 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 840.83 156.02 MB/sec [256K blocks]