Toshiba SSD or Samsung SSD?

Question

ive just realised that some MacBook Airs are shipped with the slower Toshiba SSD's, they score a noticably lower mark on disk check.
Is there a way to go to Apple and get the fast SSD?
After all, i paid the same amount of money as the people with the faster Samsung SSD's.

Answer 1

I generally pretty much say the same thing as other here with respect to you probably won't notice the difference... with the one caveat being exactly what you happen to be doing.  Opening applications, web browsing, playing any games that run well enough, etc. are all things that you're not likely to notice any difference with.  However, if you're doing something which relies pretty much on the drive speed as the single bottleneck... then you might notice (as you have).  I probably wouldn't be rendering video on an Air simply because of the power that requires, but if that's you're only option, then that's what you use.  So the "average" user probably would never notice the difference.  Indeed, the average user probably has no idea there are different drives.  In your case, you're doing one of the things that depends nearly entirely on the drive speed (as the processor can easily outpace the drive).
The problem is that Apple does not say that you'll get an SSD with "X" transfer speed.  They just say you'll get an SSD.  Even identifying the speed of the SATA bus (1.5, 3, 6GB) doesn't give any indication of the SSD's actual performance.  Basically, so far as Apple is concerned, the machine is in spec. 
Now, in your case, you're comparing two identical machines (they have different SSDs, but Apple considers them identical models) and getting significantly different performance results.  Given that, you may have some ground to address it with Apple.  So far as you're concerned, your machine is running significantly slower than another... which would imply a problem.  There should not be any significant performance differences between identical models.  I would suggest either giving Apple a call or visiting your local Apple store just to see how they address it (No harm in trying, right?).  It's clear you're not asking for the faster drive just because you know there is one out there.  You actually have real usage experience with significant performance differences.
I'm not suggesting they will replace it for you, but it might be worth a try.  They would need to replace the drive for you as it's not considered a user replacable part (even though it's easier to remove than a hard drive in the MacBook Pros).