Samsung starts mass producing PCIe SSDs with 1400MB/s read speeds. When the new MacBook Air got the teardown treatment last week, there wasn’t much different from the previous model apart from the addition of a Haswell processor, bigger battery, dual microphones, and a new SSD.
In fact, it’s that SSD that was the most unexpected new component, as it saw Apple switch from a SATA to a PCIe-connected storage solution. By making that switch, the Air has much faster access to its on-board storage, which should result in a smoother end user experience as already experienced in some Geek.com hands-on time with the laptop. That faster storage solution isn’t going to be limited to MacBook Airs, though. The PCIe SSD was supplied to Apple by Samsung, and Samsung has today announced it is already mass producing the drives.
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