Some MacBook Airs sports faster blade SSDs, probably by Samsung

By Thomas Ricker posted Apr 18 2011 3: 32 AM when Apple releases its newly designed MacBook Air in October 2010, much was the switch to flash memory with a custom-built Mini PCI Express form factor SSD drive. It took a few weeks, but these SSDs would finally be released as the X-Gale SSD blade in the trade of available Toshiba module, model TS128C. Now we see user reports on MacBook Airs equipped with a second, faster SSD with a part number SM128C-the "SM" on his alleged Samsung manufacturing origins. Samsung's SSD managed read up to 260MBps and 210MBps write speeds compared to Toshiba's 210MBps read and write performance 185MBps. It is of course, hardly unusual for Apple, multi-source components. And a recent decision to source parts from Korea's Samsung a smart move, just-in-time supply lines fully stocked to keep the flood disasters in Toshiba's home country of Japan. Unfortunately, there seems no way the SSD confirm you're about to buy without cracking open the retail and OS X System Profiler run. Good luck with the.

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