MSI GS73 6RF ‘Stealth Pro’ 4K 006UK Laptop Review

On this page we test the drives that MSI have installed.

The installed 2TB hard drive is painfully slow, with a maximum sustained transfer speed under 80MB/s.

The installed SSD performance is, however, excellent – with sequential speeds showing between 1500MB/s and 2000MB/s.

We took the back off the MSI GS73 6RF ‘Stealth Pro' and removed the slow 2.5 inch mechancial drive – replacing it with a Samsung 850 2TB drive. The results above show that the drive is almost able to saturate the SATA 3 interface, achieving well over 500 MB/s.

To test USB 3.0 performance we need a drive that is capable of completely saturating the bus. Until recently we used the Corsair Voyager GTX drive, one of the fastest pen drives on the market. We have recently switched to using a 500GB Brinell Drive, available on Amazon for around £225 inc vat. Inside is a 500GB SAMSUNG EVO 840 SSD, a product all our readers are familiar with.

USB 3 performance is solid, achieving almost 400 MB/s in the sequential read test.

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