I find it strange that they claim it as the fastest drive they've ever tested, when in any real use benchmarks, IE I/O monitor tests where they actually replicate real world use, its just the same as the other drives.
ONLY the last 3 tests they did are based on real world use monitored and replicated by them with various apps, pcmark doesn't do that, its one companies idea of performance, and can really be twisted how they want, we really have no idea how accurate it is, even then it doesn't win every test.
Either way, the last 3 tests, it loses two far far more significantly than it wins the last one.
Yet again you'd see NO difference between any of those top drives in any situation. How often do we write 2mb sequential files, ok, copying photo's from one place to another in large quantities, then again, who stores gigs and gigs of photo's on an SSD, no one.
So basically, despite their claims, their real world tests show its slower. The model they tested ISN'T a cheaper drive, but a enterprise edition that will cost most likely quite a bit more than anything available, and its marginally faster at best in a single situation, slower in real world, slower in random 4kb read while only marginally faster in 4kb write.
So more money, for overall less performance in the two situations you'd use an enterprised priced drive(their heavy workload and less so their light workload test). Who would buy an enterprise SSD for 1/8th of an FPS more at twice the price maybe?
I really do find it strange they can claim is easily the fastest when their own tests say otherwise.
Yet again we see that benchmarks, and winning ONE specific performance area, means nothing in the real world where you need performance all over the place.
Likewise real world performance is basically undetectable between a Intel and a crucial right now.
As for SSD's, I don't get the constant need to use the latest firmware, I've experienced no noticeable performance loss anywhere on my ssd's, even if a benchmark tries to convince me otherwise. I'll drop in the garbage collection firmware when its finally available and working without bugs, and I really couldn't care less when that is.
