Autumn sale of technology

Storage Devices
Samsung's SSD PM851 (256 GB, 164 GB free for the user) does not perform very well in the storage benchmarks. It usually falls behind the PM851 M.2 2280 and clearly behind the SM951 (T460s / Folio 1040 G3) in most sub-scores. The result is a general performance advantage for the rivals, which is – see PCMark 8 – also reflected in the measured application performance. HP EliteBook Folio 1040 G3 and the ThinkPad T460s manage much higher transfer rates thanks to their NVMe modules with Samsung's UBX controller, both for read and write operations.

We use our Toshiba Exceria Pro SDXC 64 GB UHS-II reference SD card to check the performance of the card reader. The maximum transfer rate is up to 83.6 MB/s when you copy large files, while typical jpg-pictures (~5 MB each) are transferred at 61 MB/s. These are average results that we can see from many card readers.