Quote Originally Posted by Computurd View Post
curious that the M4 beats the vertex 3 in the "2010 storage bench" , yet anand switches to a new bench the "2011 storage bench" and the V3 wins handily. hard to tell these days. we need more of these drives in the hands of us enthusiasts to come to our own conclusions
The 2010 bench doesn't use SATA III, 2011 bench does. It was shown earlier in the review that the V3 is hit much more by dropping down to SATA II than the m4, probably because more of its performance comes from sequentials.