Review of the Samsung 470 Series Solid State Drive

You can run Performance Benchmarks, but heed the warnings:

Then see the results:

You can perform optimization on the drive:

And see the results:

Choosing to update the firmware provides a warning you should heed:

The last tab is called Site Link, which will include news and events, but for now is coming soon.

Final Thoughts

What can I say, this drive is brilliant and I can’t recommend it enough!

It looks really good (which is an odd thing to say about a drive, considering it will be in your computer and you will never see it).

It is very fast as you can see from the speed tests and the Windows Experience Index results above.

Price wise, the 64GB retails at $129.99, the 128GB at $259.99 and the 256GB at $519.99.

If you are thinking of jumping into the world of SSDs, you should certainly take a look at the Samsung Series 470 SSDs.