I'm not sure what other people were expecting, but I'm pretty disappointed by these performance numbers. I does great in the "destroyer" benchmark, but that's the exception. Steady state random write perf is actually lower than the sata 850 pro!
In other words, if your workload isn't super heavy, this is quite fast - but then, why the heck are you buying this expensive, low capacity power hog if your workload is almost certainly fast enough on a slower drive?
At the very least, this drive should be beating or equaling samsung's own SATA drives reliably - but it's not. The power consumption is also worrying, especially due to the tiny form factor...
I can't think of a situation in which I would care about write bandwidth. Write latency is important for databases. Read bandwidth is of critical importance for everything. But write bandwidth? What's it for?
In other words, if your workload isn't super heavy, this is quite fast - but then, why the heck are you buying this expensive, low capacity power hog if your workload is almost certainly fast enough on a slower drive?
At the very least, this drive should be beating or equaling samsung's own SATA drives reliably - but it's not. The power consumption is also worrying, especially due to the tiny form factor...