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    Razer Blade 2013 - SSD speeds

    Discussion in 'Razer' started by robbie36, Apr 29, 2014.

  1. robbie36

    robbie36 Notebook Guru

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    This is a question for those who have a second internal msata SSD in their Blade.

    Last week I swapped out a 480GB msata for a new 1TB msata in the second msata slot. I then placed the unused 480GB into a USB 3 enclosure. I tested the real life speeds of transfer (by transfering a 9GB file of photos) both as an internal msata and then as a USB3 external SSD.

    What I found was that the transfer was actually some 20% faster from c: drive to external USB enclosure than from c: drive to internal d: drive of exactly the same msata SSD. Now this seems very strange to me - theoretically esata is faster (6Gps) is faster than USB 3 (5Gps) and furthermore USB 3 is slowed down by its overhead.

    So I wondered what sort of real life transfer speeds everyone was getting between their 2 internal msata SSDs. Obviously this test is quite different than simply doing an ATTO or Crystaldisk speed test of the drive itself.
     
    robbie36, Apr 29, 2014
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