With the recent release of the Samsung SSD 830, I expect the trend of Samsung drives increasing in performance will continue next year as well. While Samsung has updated its controllers, Toshiba's solution still offers the fairly abysmal random write performance it did a year ago. In the storage space at least, Apple doesn't seem to be overly concerned with performance but rather making sure the solution works.Ī year ago, the Toshiba and Samsung controllers offered fairly similar performance. Apple tends to pick suppliers that can deliver a reliable product in the quantities it's interested in. For now, that appears to be Toshiba and Samsung.
As with many commodity components, Apple sources its SSDs from two sources. I've written previously about the SSD lottery you play when you buy a new MacBook Air.
