If we leave the whole synthetic scene and look at what the drive can provide in real world terms its actually very fast indeed. Only PCmark really gives you any glimpse of an idea of this as everything else only really shows what a drive can do as a maximum level. Thats no different to Ken blocks Fiesta topping out at 130mph but getting there in 6 seconds vs a standard fiestsa ST topping out at 140mph (ie faster) but taking the best part of 3 weeks to do it..

They are very well made drives thats for sure but performance is faster than perhaps synthetic tests would suggest.

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Rein.

Rayne.

On topic, if I were currently in the market for half a terabyte of bargaintastic I'd go for the Toshiba Q Series 512GB drive.

You'll save over £120 for an intangible loss of performance in most applications. It was even cheaper t'other day.

Am wondering if manufacturers are being deliberately vague about the Nand in case they need to swap it out with another brand further down the line.