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Mushkin Builds Budget-Oriented Chronos G2 SSD

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October 7, 2014 12:35:36 PM

Mushkin's Latest SSD brings another value offering to the market.

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October 7, 2014 3:52:09 PM

Wow, that's cheap cheap. I can still remember when I got my Corsair Force GT 120GB SSD over a year ago, all the SSD's were at least $120 for the 120GB model and $500 for the 480GB model. Now were spoiled. :D 
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October 8, 2014 6:24:25 AM

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Wow, that's cheap cheap. I can still remember when I got my Corsair Force GT 120GB SSD over a year ago, all the SSD's were at least $120 for the 120GB model and $500 for the 480GB model. Now were spoiled. :D 


The smallest drive is the same $/GB as the ones you are talking about. It shows that the price of the memory isn't driving up the price of the drive anymore. I'm mostly looking forward to the day when all SSD drives are prices under 50 cents/GB and we only need mechanical drives for mass storage.
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October 8, 2014 10:27:10 AM

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Wow, that's cheap cheap. I can still remember when I got my Corsair Force GT 120GB SSD over a year ago, all the SSD's were at least $120 for the 120GB model and $500 for the 480GB model. Now were spoiled. :D 


I have a hard time seeing how this is a upgraded/newer version. The old model had a mean time between failures of 2,000,000 hours. The have a faster read speed. additionally they are 7mm in height and have 5k more IOPS @ 4k RR's oh I forgot its cheaper too.
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October 8, 2014 10:57:45 AM

STOP MAKING SANDFORCE SSDS!!!
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October 8, 2014 7:37:21 PM

Niels, how come the 4K write performance is better with the lower capacity models?
That seems a bit odd.


Drejeck, stop spreading the FUD. All the old fw woes were fixed long ago. I have
more than 30 SF SSDs (mostly OCZ, Vertex2E/3/MXI), all running fine. The only
units I wouldn't touch are the very low end like the Octane, and likewise I wouldn't
recommend the Sandisk Pulse, any model of that kind, just asking for trouble.

And btw, given the rationale people were using before, should people now stop
buying Samsung SSDs because of the old-data fw issue? Of course not; it'll
be fixed soon like all such bugs are. What annoyed me is the way people
kept banging on about OCZ even though the later models didn't use SF at all.
The Vertex4 and Vector SSDs are really good.

Ian.

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October 9, 2014 5:54:05 AM

Yep! The important thing is that those bugs gets fixed... Even Intel have had its part in hardware bugs. So why anybody buys Intel hardware???
Because, even there are bug in there, they are normally fixed in reasonable time.
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October 9, 2014 6:33:13 AM


Absolutely! Intel had the 8MB bricked issue way back, but they sorted it. I think when OCZ had their
problems, their mistake was releasing products that really had too many issues (the race to beat others
to the market), and poor customer service re getting replacements. The affected model(s) went to market
too early, so of course if one gets burned by that sort of thing then no wonder people are prone to say
forever more, "don't buy from them!", but companies change, policies change, and in the case of SSDs,
the bugs get fixed. I reckon being bought out by Toshiba and forced to refocus is perhaps the best
thing that could have happened to OCZ.

The irony is, the Vertex2E/3 generation of SF is now so old, there really aren't any issues at all, very reliable.
I have a stack of them I use for my benchmarking rigs.

Anyway, the later models using Indilinx and other controllers (Vertex4, Vector) are completely different and
worked much better from the outset. Far fewer issues reported. Indeed, it's interesting to note even today
how high up in review charts the Vector keeps showing. OCZ's problem now though is they're generally too
expensive. I had hoped that their buyout by Toshiba would enable better pricing, but atm the 840 EVO is
only fractionally more than an ARC 100 but usefully faster (so I'd get the EVO), while the Vertex 460 is more
expensive (both need to be decently less than an EVO to be attractive IMO, especially the ARC which really
should be more in the same price range as the MX100).

Personally I'd happily still buy a Vector 150, but its price is too close to the 850 Pro, so I'd opt for the latter.

Ian.

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