To be fair, if you only look at sequential access numbers on any disk your likely to be disappointed unless you happen to have a very sequential workload, which

To be fair, if you only look at sequential access numbers on any disk your likely to be disappointed unless you happen to have a very sequential workload, which isn't terribly common. Loading large applications, copying large files, loading the OS, some types of video editing, etc may benefit from sequential performance but for the majority of real world workflows 4k random I/O per second is a much better metric (though certainly not universal). IO/sec is much more important in the area of dev work, database performance in particular. The current generation of SSDs are massively faster in IO/sec than older models, much greater improvement than the sequential numbers indicate. That said, you still may not notice a difference if what your doing doesn't hammers a database that is 'safe' (guaranteed consistency on disk) or if your working set doesn't outstrip the ram you've allocated to the db.