What SSD is sitting in the X360 ?

Is it a better than the intel X 25 - M ?

 

probably not, its probably a samsung drive

 

According to Samsung , the SSD adds another 2 hours to battery life, is this the case ?

 

Let's evaluate idle/active power requirements of a 1.8" HDD and a 1.8" SSD:

1.8" Toshiba_SATA HDD = 0.55/1.4W
1.8" Samsung SSD = 0.2/0.46W

That's a 0.35/0.94W difference in power requirements. Does that equate to 2 hrs battery life? No. Though if Samsung were using an inefficient 7200rpm 2.5" HDD for the comparison then it is possible. Something that you cannot put into the X360 since it's only got a 1.8" sata bay.

You'd want to check if it's the 90/70 or 100/80 Samsung or the new RB22 based 220/120 220/120 Samsung. The latter giving far better 4kb/s read performance over the former. RB22-J benchmark is here.

 

This is a premium notebook.


I am assuming that Samsung would probably use there fastest drive. Then again they cost alot so maybe not(Then again they produce it so that shouldne be a problem......)

 

NO way it will add 2 hours battery life. 30 minutes MAX! good thing is that in your power options you can set your HDD to turn off in 1 min, since its an SSD, powering it back on really is nothing. I set my HDD to power off in 1 minute. When you are typing papers, doing spreadsheets etc as a business user would, this really does save battery life. I've achieved nearly 9 hours of database, word, excel and internet usage off the standard battery....very impressive.

I have the x360 Samsung and it is and MLC 128gb ssd, HDtune reports min of about 70mbps, max over 150 (it was over 150 most of the time). access time 0.1ms. I took it apart, it is a bare drive, no cover, just the chips. It is marked MLC on it. I'm quite impressed with the performance!

NOW my question is....how the heck does the macbook air which is 3/4" thick at the thickest point (while the x360 is 1 and 1/4" at the thickest point at the back, i measured it) pack a 2.13ghz core 2 duo AND a geforce 9400 dedicated in it??? And all for about the same price??? I feel a bit ripped off...although battery life is about half that of the x360, and the fact I refuse to buy Apple (I hate their overzealous marketing and their propaganda such as the macbook air's battery life Steve Job's claimed - the only way it could do that is sitting there doing nothing).

I read reviews on the top of the line MBA and they say it runs cooler than the original which had a 1.6ghz C2D and integrated gfx....damnit, I can't help but feeling slightly ripped off....

 

Hm, i have heard as much as an hour extra on an SSD.

But two hours does seem a bit long, maybe its possible who knows.

 

Here are the test results by CrystalDiskMark 2.2


Regarding power savings, if the SSD would be active all the time ,it would consume 5 hours*1 Watt = 5 Whr more than a normal HDD

5Whr of a 64 Whr battery is a little less than 10 %

 

Here are the HDtune results :





What to think of that ?

 

Download crystaldisk info and see what it is reporting for transfer mode. Looks like it's bottlenecked by something. crystaldiskinfo will also show which firmware your ssd has.

 

Here is it :

 

Well it has SATA/300 so thats probably not it and can't find much about whether the FW is new or old. The Samsung controller SSD's that have shipped late July thru present have a type of TRIM feature that works when the system is idle to restore performance. Supposedly you are to reboot then log off and you will see the hard disk light blink every half a second or so. I notice that you are at 60% capacity and that could be partly to blame.

Samsung is supposed to make a firmware flasher public in time for windows 7 release and that will reformat your ssd and in the process restore performance.