Just curious if anyone has received a SB with anything other than a Samsung MZFLV### drive inside.
Also, I mentioned earlier in this thread that I manually installed the Samsung NVMe storage controller driver and it helped with AS SSD benchmark results.
To clear up some misconceptions: all NVMe drives (Samsung, Toshiba, Intel, etc.) had issues with AS SSD's benchmark, but it's just a quirk of NVMe and not indicative of real performance. That's not the major concern with the Samsung SSD.
The Samsung SSD just uses much worse NAND (TLC without TurboWrite or any other caching system); for example, the iPhone 6S, not to mention most 6TB 7200RPM hard drives, have sequential writes faster than the 128GB Samsung PM951 NVMe SSD.
I believe it was intended to be dual-sourced, but something fell through and there is no dual-sourcing on the Surface Book five months later. The Surface Pro 4, however, has a mix of Toshiba & Samsung, especially in the Canadian/Australian markets.
I never expect to see the Toshiba XG3 in any retail Surface Book. The only ones in existence and likely will ever be are
all review models.