So I am sure most of you have seen the issues about slow ssd perfromance in some Surface Book models with the Samsung SSD. I recently purchased the i5/256gb/dgpu model and realized I probably won't use the dgpu that often besides playing games occasionally and didn't know if I could justify the price. I ended up ordering the i5/128gb/no dgpu and purchased a Samsung t1 250gb external ssd in case I need it. Right now I have both the laptops in front of me because I have not taken the previous one back yet. I will post the performance of the 256gb Surface book ssd as well as the 128gb. While the 256gb is nothing amazing for the price the 128gb seems to be considerably slower. Is this just my model or is this how all the 128gb ones are? I feel like with already giving up the extra disk space and dgpu and now the speed maybe it only makes sense to keep the higher end model.
Does the dgpu have much affect on performance of something like netflix or youtube?
I will also post the resulsts for the Samsung external ssd. Even that seems to have better write speeds than the 128gb ssd in the surface book.
128gb Surface book

256gb Surface book

250gb External Samsung t1 ssd

Does the dgpu have much affect on performance of something like netflix or youtube?
I will also post the resulsts for the Samsung external ssd. Even that seems to have better write speeds than the 128gb ssd in the surface book.
128gb Surface book

256gb Surface book

250gb External Samsung t1 ssd
