Samsung 470 Series 256 GB SSD

100% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Solid spec and performance ; Comes with drive-cleaner app for non Win7 users

Only has a 3Gbps interface ; SandForce-powered drives are still faster

It's a peculiarity of the current market for solid state drives that a largely unheralded little outfit known as SandForce makes the dominant SSD controller chipset. Not, perhaps, for much longer. The big boys are fighting back and one of the early...

Stylish design.

Can’t compete with SATA III performance.

Worth considering if it falls below the £300 mark.

With an RRP of around $550, the 256GB 470 Series SSG certainly isn’t cheap. However, what you do get is a solid, well-balanced shot of performance in not only read-rates, as most SSDs (and indeed faster HDDs) manage, but in write-rates, which is a...

Competitive performance and price; attractive chassis; strong random writes

Except when compared to 'max IOPS' SandForce drives

Samsung has come out of the gate strong with the 470 Series, its first retail SSD, which offers performance on par with current-gen SandForce-powered drives. Furthermore, its enclosure is the prettiest we’ve seen on an SSD, though that hardly matters...

A couple of generations ago there were a number of major players in the SSD marketplace, Indilinx was one, Intel another and then we had Samsung. Their P series of SSD’s compared reasonably well with models from Intel and Indilinx, outperforming those...

Samsung really surprised us with their 256GB 470 Series solid state drive. It performed above expectations on nearly every benchmark and kept pace with the SandForce drives that seem to the darling of the industry right now. Barring more data on...

Consistent performance ; 256MB DRAM cache prevents stutter ; Top-notch Samsung controller ; Beautiful enclosure

Expensive ; Not the fastest rated/performing drive available but not too shabby either

With all the hype surrounding the Indilinx Barefoot and SandForce controllers, we have to give kudos to Samsung where they are due, for putting together an impressive SSD controller of its own. That's no easy task, as evidenced by JMicron's early...

excellent upgrade. from 0 to 16 seconds, my dell d630 up and running. quiet. fast. 7.6 on Windows 7 index for primary hard disk

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