Mushkin Announces the Scorpion Deluxe PCIe Based SSD

Mushkin has announced a new series of SSDs, the Scorpion Deluxe series. This series of SSDs, though, is no ordinary lineup, as the units are PCIe- based; thus, they also have much higher read and write speeds.

With the PCIe x8 interface the fastest and largest unit at 1920 GB, it features read speeds of up to 2165 MB/s and write speeds of up to 1990 MB/s.  The units also feature up to 89,000 random read IOPS, as well as up to 107,000 write IOPS.

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Header Cell - Column 0 240 GB480 GB960 GB1920 GB
Read MB/s2150216021602165
Write MB/s1950196019801990
Read IOPS51,00067,00078,00089,000
Write IOPS107,000107,000107,00071,500

Mushkin's Scorpion Deluxe PCIe SSDs all have an MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) of 1,000,000 hours, they possess operating temperatures between 0 and 70° C, and will also feature a three-year warranty.

There was no word on when the SSDs would be available, nor was there any information on pricing.

Niels Broekhuijsen is a Contributing Writer for Tom's Hardware US. He reviews cases, water cooling and pc builds.

  • pbrigido
    Bootable? Not that it matters, probably can't afford on anyways.
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  • pbrigido
    Bootable? Not that it matters, probably can't afford on anyways.
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  • patrick47018
    Wonder what the cost will be
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  • icemunk
    Fast... like Ram drive fast. I want.
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  • vmem
    hmm, I would consider the 240GB one for a bootdrive if it's below $400
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  • rwinches
    The new Atlas mSATA has sync mem and lsi sandforce sf2281 cont

    The new USB 3.0 Thumb drive has LSI Sandforce S2281 Cont 450 MBs up down speed.
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  • halcyon
    Gonna be spensive.
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  • vinhn
    Probably won't notice a different on a boot drive. On windows 8, SSD and PCIe would be closely the same with ~1-2s off. Though gaming and huge files must be amazing.
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  • TrollKing
    The price will be much higher than the read/write speed if u guy are wondering.
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  • master_chen
    >SandForce
    I've pretty much stopped reading on that point and closed the tab.
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