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    XPS 9550, I got one of the fast SSDs

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by jlrosine, Nov 1, 2016.

  1. jlrosine

    jlrosine Notebook Consultant

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    Hi all, I just picked up a fairly new 9550 and it was shipped with the Toshiba 1tb SSD. I had been reading about how they mostly had the slower Samsung drives in them so I figured I'd post this just in case others were wondering what the Toshiba drive brings to the table for speed.

    2349 read
    1239 write

    Not too bad, I wasn't expecting it to be quite that high.
     

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    GoNz0 Notebook Virtuoso

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    It will do 2400/1400 on a good day and all 1tb drives are that fast afaik. It is the smaller drives that suffer, apart from the Toshiba.
     
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    LiamAcer Notebook Consultant

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    My 9550 with the 512GB version of the Toshiba SSD brings up near enough the same speeds as yours - the best I had out of mine after a fresh install of Windows last week was 2500MB/s read & 1500MB/s write speeds.

    I suppose it's luck of the draw really, but am I right thinking that Dell started using the Toshiba brand SSD throughout their range of laptops a while back as they stopped supplying the Samsung brand? Not a bad move at all though, considering the average write speeds reported with the Samsung PM951.

    Liam.
     
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    Nah, they started fitting cheap stuff again now.
     
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