How fast is your Surface 2 Hard Drive?

[tripleM87]

Hey,
instead of an SSD, the Surface 2 uses a eMMC Flash module as a hard drive. First I thought my USB 3.0 Hard drive was broken, because it copied movies very slowly to my Surface's hard drive.
But then I checked for the writing speed of the Flash module, and I find it a bit disappointing, only 31 MB/s. USB 3.0 does only make sense, when you copy something from your Surface.
Do you have the same speed? You have to write the following command in your console:

winsat disk -seq -write -drive c

https://skydrive.live.com/pagenotfounderror

 

[dolphinparty]

I've not made a screen grab but on my Surface 2 32GB I get:

97.18 mb/s read speed.
26.98 mb/s write speed

 

[Aenil]

https://skydrive.live.com/pagenotfounderror

 

[Saurabh3321]

My surface tells a different story!

 

[iampwd]

I get 52MB/s write

 

[Aenil]

the results are random, sometimes the unit seems very slow and in some test is 2x faster..

 

[Saurabh3321]

You might be having an update running in the background.
Or some other background task maybe
The disk shows up as samsung mbg4gc. I wonder what that is. Even google doesn't get results.

 

[dolphinparty]

The disk shows up as samsung mbg4gc. I wonder what that is. Even google doesn't get results.

My 32GB is a Hynix HBG4e

 

[Saurabh3321]

So it seems they have different oem partners in different regions
Both of them hynix and samsung ones are emmc module.
Checked on samsung site. It has a similar product code as i gave above for 32gb
eMMC Overview | Samsung Semiconductor Global Website

 

[Aenil]

My 32GB is a Hynix HBG4e

me too (italy here)