Super Talent Technology MasterDrive MX SATA-II 25 120GB 120GB

100 MBps sustained read bandwidth in HD Tach ; Low power consumption extends battery life ; Lightweight storage solution ; Resistant to extreme shock impact ; Up to 120 GB of SSD capacity ; Limited lifetime warranty ; 6 per gigabyte price ratio ; Alloy...

Alloy case is heavier than plastic SSD cases ; Very poor sustained write-to performance for a SATA-II SSD ; Highest response time of all SSDs tested

EDITORS NOTE: Please read Solid State Drive (SSD) Benchmark Performance Testing to understand how the benchmarks used in this article should be interpreted.

Extremely fast reads > 100Gb/s

Write speed is worse that a high quality spinning laptop drive

When it works, it worked great. Notebook was eerily silent without HD seeks

Heat. It runs quite a bit hotter than a normal 2.5" drive. After 4.5 weeks the drive is non-functional. Recognized by windows, but cannot initialize or format due to an I/O device error

Talking solid-state drives in general, they'll great in laptops. Use less power, generate less heat and so on

Lots of people think these are faster than normal mechanical hard drives and put them in their desktop computers. Sorry to say, solid-state is not faster then 2 10k hard drives in raid 0. That's only 2, with raid you can add a lot more than 2 which...

After using this for 5 weeks, I don't think I can go back to a hard drive.

it died after 5 weeks. But, I'm hoping it is a fluke with the early batches and hope that the replacement will last longer. Thank you NewEgg for RMAing the unit even though it was over the 1 month RMA period!

For SSD, the greatest bank-for-the-buck. Performance is excellent considering other SSD manufacturers with similar capacity are upwards of $3,000. Vista Ultimate installed in ten minutes. Considerably faster than my Seagate Momentus 7200.2 200GB laptop...

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