PC Perspective posted a review on the Samsung 470 Series 256GB SSD

Today we take a look at Samsung's newest offering - the 470 Series SSD. This drive sports a new controller with some very promising specs. Our storage guru goes on a seek and destroy mission to see if any weaknesses present in the older generation SSD's. Check out or full review for the scoop.

Samsung's new 470 Series is absolutely a step above the previous generation. Sequential write speeds are among the fastest we've tested. The new controller enables a significant random read IOPS boost at higher queue depths. While our tests showed great improvements in many areas, further analysis of the results revealed a chink in the armor - hitting the 470 with simultaneous reads and writes caused both operations to suffer greatly once the write cache was full, dropping performance to HDD-class speeds.

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