“Overall, we were duly impressed with the 470 Series and it exceeded its rated specifications of 250MB/s reads and 220MB/s writes in nearly every benchmark we threw at it. With Samsung being a relatively new player in the consumer SSD market, they are getting off to a great start. 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….”Here are some more Storage reviews from around the web:
- Kingston SSDNow V+ Series 64GB SSD Review @ eTeknix
- The State of Solid State in 2011 @ Tweaktown
- 2TB Seagate Barracuda LP Green Hard Drive @ TechwareLabs
- RunCore ProV 240GB SSD Review – Faster Than RAID 0 @ The SSD Review
- Seagate Momentus XT 500GB 2.5″ Hybrid Hard Drive Review @ Hardware Canucks
- Corsair Force Series F90 Solid State Drive RAID Report @ Tweaktown
- Kingston SSDNow V 100 256GB and SSDNow V+ 100 256GB @ Legit Reviews
- Patriot Memory Extreme Performance Xporter XT Rage USB Flash Drive Review @ Madshrimps
- Thermaltake BlacX 5G ST0019U HDD Docking Station @ Overclockers Online
- Patriot Xporter XT Rage 32GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive Review @ Legit Reviews
- QNAP TS-259 Pro+ NAS Review @MissingRemote
Samsung builds its 470 series SSDs from scratch

Samsung has a plan; they make their own flash memory and are hoping that will help them with their SSD lineup, both in cost and performance. Their only cheat is the controller which is a 32-bit ARM9 processor and not technically a Samsung product. Inside one particular fact stands out, which is that the PCB is only 3″ long and 1.8″ wide so we may see sub 2.5″ drives from Samsung in the near future. Legit Reviews placed the performance of the drive right in the middle of the SSD pack, not a bad thing as any SSD is a serious speed boost from a platter based drive.