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Controller: LAMD LM87800. Flash Memory: Toshiba 19nm MLC. Release date: Q2 2013.

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▲ 51459 ▼

Controller: Intel 29F32B08MCMF2. Flash Memory: Intel 20nm MLC. Release date: Q1 2014.

Effective Speed 
+27%
Real World Speed
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Best Bench: 90% 86GB free
Worst Bench: 54% 15GB free (System drive)
Poor: 54% Great: 90%
SPEED RANK: 571st / 1080
5,159 User Benchmarks
Best Bench: 110% 215GB free
Worst Bench: 71% 352GB free
Poor: 71% Great: 110%
SPEED RANK: 283rd / 1080
Effective Speed
Effective SSD Speed 		75.6 % 95.9 % Faster effective speed.
+27%
Average Score 
+36%
Read
Avg. Sequential Read Speed 		438 MB/s Faster read speed.
+13% 		388 MB/s
Write
Avg. Sequential Write Speed 		258 MB/s 432 MB/s Much faster write speed.
+67%
4K Read
Avg. 4K Random Read Speed 		23.1 MB/s 30.4 MB/s Much faster random read.
+32%
4K Write
Avg. 4K Random Write Speed 		71 MB/s 85.7 MB/s Faster random write.
+21%
Mixed
Avg. Sequential Mixed IO Speed 		251 MB/s 314 MB/s Faster mixed IO speed.
+25%
4K Mixed
Avg. 4K Random Mixed IO Speed 		28.4 MB/s 36.5 MB/s Faster random mixed IO.
+29%
SusWrite
Avg. Sustained Write Speed 		211 MB/s 409 MB/s Hugely faster sustained write speed.
+94%
Peak Score 
+27%
Read
Peak Sequential Read Speed 		492 MB/s Faster peak read speed.
+16% 		425 MB/s
Write
Peak Sequential Write Speed 		301 MB/s 483 MB/s Much faster peak write speed.
+60%
4K Read
Peak 4K Random Read Speed 		28.4 MB/s 35.3 MB/s Faster peak random read.
+24%
4K Write
Peak 4K Random Write Speed 		103 MB/s 115 MB/s Faster peak random write.
+12%
Mixed
Peak Sequential Mixed IO Speed 		283 MB/s 345 MB/s Faster peak mixed IO speed.
+22%
4K Mixed
Peak 4K Random Mixed IO Speed 		34.1 MB/s 42.3 MB/s Faster peak random mixed IO.
+24%
SusWrite
Peak Sequential Sustained Write 60s Average 		294 MB/s 478 MB/s Much faster peak sustained write speed.
+63%
Value & Sentiment 
+∞%
Market Share
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Market Share
Market Share (trailing 30 days) 		0 % 0.01 % Insanely higher market share.
+∞%
Value
Value For Money 		5.19 % 10.8 % Hugely better value.
+108%
User Rating
UBM User Rating 		51 % 51 %
Price
Price (score) 		$112 Much cheaper.
+51% 		$230
Nice To Haves 
+15%
Age
Newest 		133 Months 124 Months Slightly more recent.
+7%
DQ Read
Peak 4K-64Thread Read Speed 		358 MB/s 370 MB/s +3%
DQ Write
Peak 4K-64Thread Write Speed 		302 MB/s 322 MB/s Slightly faster peak deep queue write.
+7%
AS-SSD Total
AS-SSD Total Score 		1,093 Pts 1,178 Pts Slightly stronger server IO.
+8%
DQ Mixed
Peak 4K-64Thread Mixed IO Speed 		239 MB/s 320 MB/s Much faster peak deep queue mixed IO.
+34%
ADQ Read
Avg. 4K-64Thread Read Speed 		297 MB/s 317 MB/s Slightly faster deep queue read.
+7%
ADQ Write
Avg. 4K-64Thread Write Speed 		236 MB/s 270 MB/s Faster deep queue write.
+14%
ADQ Mixed
Avg. 4K-64Thread Mixed IO Speed 		197 MB/s 281 MB/s Much faster deep queue mixed IO.
+43%
Specifications 
Capacity
Capacity 		120GB 480GB
Conclusion 
Average Bench 75.6%
Average Bench 95.9%
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The 120GB Seagate 600 is yet another drive that massively underperforms its larger, in this case 240GB, sibling. Looking at the 120GB and 240GB 600's shows that the larger 240GB version has peak speeds that are nearly 50% higher than the smaller 120GB. This increase in speed is down to additional NAND modules on the larger version which allow more parallelization during writes. The 120GB 600 has peak sequential read/write speeds of 508/246 MB/s which is great for reading but terrible for writing. The 600 does have reasonable deep queue performance but that doesn't make up for its relative inability to write. Overall the 120GB Seagate 600 is both slower and more expensive than the group leaders. [Feb '14 SSDrivePro]

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