Air Toshiba vs Samsung SSD, Real issue?

[AnthroAndStargate]

I'm sure y'all have seen the flames all over the web and even Anand's review on the new MacBook Air's and how they randomly ship with Samsung SSDs or slower Toshiba SSDs. Do y'all think this translates to ANY real world performance difference? It's hard sifting through all the sites and articles to figure out if it is worth returning a new Air to make sure you get a Samsung SSD.

 

[Mr.Holmes]

I wouldn't say its a real issue, the samsung SSD (example SM128) is the most update SSD, a little faster. A tech i know states they don't use TS SSD's any longer, new refurbish, or second hand MBA may have them. I'm not sure of the date, i think the switch to SM-SSD occurred around feb-March 2011.

Having a TS-SSD is not the end of the world.

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In The Apple Group

 

[Kaido]

None of Apple's marketing that I have seen advertises the actual speeds of the SSD, so technically Apple is under no obligation to deliver same-speed SSD's, as much as that bites. Engadget found the following in their testing:

Samsung SM128C SSD:
251 MB/s read
214 MB/s write

Toshiba TS128C SSD:
203 MB/s read
184 MB/s write

So the Samsung is 48 MB/s faster for reads and 30 MB/s faster for writes. Considering that a lot of hard drives only run at about 60 MB/s for reads total, that seems fairly significant, but in my experience once you hit 200 MB/s everything else is just gravy (unless you have those new 500 MB/s SSD's, whoohoo!). In real life, I haven't noticed a difference between any of my SSD's above 200 MB/s or so. I do notice a difference going from my older 150/170-ish SSD to the 200+ model, but from say 200 to 250 it's not quite as noticeable. There is a difference, but it's not huge.

Is it worth returning? That's up to you. If you do a ton of stuff that requires speed on the boot drive and it's not an enormous hassle to go to an Apple Store and do a swap, then sure, why not. But most people just surf the web and do word processing, so I'd say meh.