Surface Studio might have PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe SSD

iFixit’s teardown of the Surface Studio with Intel Core i5 reveals a SATA 3.0 SSD.

That said, someone is claiming that his Surface Studio with Intel Core i7 has a PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe SSD.

Specifically: 128GB Toshiba XG3 THNSN5128GPU7 M.2 2280 PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe SSD 

The Rapid Hybrid Drive is using Intel Smart Response Technology (SRT)

Is anyone able to verify this?

Conversation 7 comments

  • 8729

    16 December, 2016 - 11:27 pm

    <p>Toshiba XG3 M.2 NVMe SSD</p>
    <p>So, there you have it.</p>
    <p>&nbsp;</p>
    <p><img src="https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/FtPcgHqwWafJl5vT&quot; alt="" width="5282" height="2974" /></p>

  • 5664

    Premium Member
    18 December, 2016 - 12:06 am

    <p>Pretty sure that this is common knowledge at this point. Surface Studio IS a great example of PC technology, I see no reason why SRT wouldn’t be used.</p>

    • 5530

      18 December, 2016 - 12:18 am

      <blockquote><em><a href="#31009">In reply to </a><a href="../../../../users/jimchamplin">jimchamplin</a><a href="#31009">:</a></em></blockquote>
      <p>well the i5 model uses a sata 3 ssd, which is kinda&nbsp;disappointing for that model and price, it’s anything but great. The i7 one is more like it.</p>

      • 4326

        Premium Member
        18 December, 2016 - 2:42 am

        <blockquote><em><a href="#31011">In reply to </a><a href="../../../../users/FalseAgent">FalseAgent</a><a href="#31011">:</a></em></blockquote>
        <p>And the hard drive from a tear down I saw is a 5400 RPM model&nbsp;with 8MB cache that was released back in 2011.&nbsp; Seems like they spent everything on the screen so they had to keep everything else cheap, considering the overall price.</p>

      • 5664

        Premium Member
        18 December, 2016 - 1:43 pm

        <blockquote><em><a href="#31011">In reply to </a><a href="../../../../users/FalseAgent">FalseAgent</a><a href="#31011">:</a></em></blockquote>
        <p>I’d love to see the actual results of someone upgrading the SSD and the HD in this thing. Bump the NVMe SSD to a larger, faster one, and replace the SATA HD with a better SATA-based SSD.</p>

        • 4964

          18 December, 2016 - 10:19 pm

          <blockquote><em><a href="#31045">In reply to </a><a href="../../../../users/jimchamplin">jimchamplin</a><a href="#31045">:</a> http://www.haystack.tv/v/microsoft-surface-studio-ssd-upgrade</em></blockquote&gt;
          <p>&nbsp;</p>

        • 5615

          19 December, 2016 - 5:11 am

          <blockquote><em><a href="#31045">In reply to </a><a href="../../../../users/jimchamplin">jimchamplin</a><a href="#31045">:</a></em></blockquote>
          <p>Just watch or listen to the beginning of the most recent Windows Weekly: The ARMS Have It. Leo replaced the hybrid drive in his i5 Surface Studio and discusses the resulting performance boost — something on the order of 4 times the read/write speed.</p>

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