Mushkin Callisto Deluxe 60GB 2.5IN SATA2 Sandforce MLC Solid State Disk Flash Drive SSD

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virtually absolutely nothing. I've played about with this drive for the past 4 months and I'm seriously having a difficult time figuring out what is excellent about it - other than the inherent pros of SSD in common. If this evaluation is about this Mushkin drive then there are no pros. practically at each and every turn I attempt to get this issue to operate to be presented with but an additional purpose why Mushkin has taken the easy road. I identified a Windows machine to execute a firmware update but apparently can't do it mainly because of Intel RAID controller?. Give me a break. I _can_ comprehend why this may well be an issue but....Mushkin: do what everybody else does - produce a bootable Linux image and carry out the firmware update from that. If you can't figure out how to do that then I guess there's not a lot of hope that you know what you're doing.I can't update the firmware from Linux, nor from OS X. This is supposed to be a drop in replacement for a difficult drive - a piece of hardware that is OS agnostic. Why would you produce application to help the drive that relies on only a single OS?

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If you're organizing to use an SSD with OSX Sandforce is the ideal game in town. Drive is comparable to other Sandforce drives (which are wicked fast), and often for a bit significantly less income. Does its job with no errors or complaint, and also utilizes significantly less energy than a spinning disk. Can't feel of any. Installed in a 2010 13" MBP operating ten.6.5.

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Simply Quickly!Brought life into my laptop.my actual test final results had been 264 read and 218 create. Impressive to say the least. beats my ocz vertex. Mushkin has the greatest SSD's on the industry appropriate now. I was Shocked and Pleased that is said "Assembled in USA" on it. 16 second win7 boot. 11 second ubuntu boot. Dropped a good amount from a couple of days ago.Cost!Limited Storage!brand new controller This is a brand new sandforce 1200 controller.. and SSD is nevertheless immature in my opinion. If you want the best and have cash get it. I use raid 1Ʈ 15k sas drive in most of my servers and workstations so the speed genuinely isn't that a lot higher but still awesome for a single drive. I nonetheless would advise raiding a couple affordable 7.2k rpm drives for a quick price range builds and basic purpose. On my dell D630 from energy button to login screen is ㅈ seconds...

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- comes with a 3.5" mounting tray- competitively priced - ㅂ,900 poor sectors due to bad sectors, was unable to total a format or install windows

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None The drive was dead when i received it. Was not detected by the BIOS or Windows. RMA back to Newegg. Will try a replacement... Manufacturer Response:Greetings, We apologize for the inconvenience. Please get in touch with us at help@mushkin.com if you have any troubles with your replacement unit.Thanks for selecting Mushkin!

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Sandforce 1200-series controllerQuick- boots into Windows 7 in 16 secondsmost programs load almost on commandWEI of 7.7 for Windows 7reduces load times and frame price drops whilst gaming- especially in open planet RPG's exactly where new textures and objects are loaded on-the-fly from the really hard drive to the method/graphics memory Not actually a con, but SSD's are still somewhat pricey for the amount of storage provided. Even so, that's the price tag for overall performance.Otherwise, no issues. SSD work very best with Windows 7 for native TRIM assistance. Also, make certain to have TRIM and AHCI enabled. This goes for all SSD's.It is a fantastic thought to only use this drive for your Windows installation, critical programs and a couple of games. Maintain pictures, music and motion pictures on a separate drive or external drive.A 3.five inch metal adapter bracket is integrated for desktop customers. The SSD is also packed in dense foam, so it is safe for the duration of shipping.As a bonus, the drive is manufactured in the USA.

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The Mushkin Callisto Enhanced has the highest claimed transfer prices, read and create, in its class at a moderate price tag. It turns out Mushkin's claims are not empty. I have two of these in a mirrored configuration as boot disks in a Gentoo Linux box, and they are screaming quickly. On a JFS filesystem and working with kernel mirroring, it took two.17 seconds to produce a 1GB file. They are, of course, utterly silent, and run particularly cool. The included 2.five" to 3.five" mounting bracket leaves a lot to be preferred. In a basic screw-in configuration exactly where the screws employed don't matter, it'll *work*, and it'll will probably operate with most snap-in rails. It utilizes fine-thread FDD/CDROM-variety screws to mount into the drive cage, even though, and will not accept regular HDD screws, so if you have a case like the Thermaltake Element G that calls for the use of standard-thread HDD mounting screws, it's not going to function. So, if your case utilizes any kind of toolless or anti-vibration disk mounting, plan on buying distinct disk adapters anyway. SSDs are coming down in price. It'll be a extended time ahead of they catch up with difficult disks, for the exact same capacity. But in a scenario exactly where you have only OS on local disk and all your mass storage is out on network storage, we're already at the point exactly where SSDs can give you all the storage you Will need for not a large value premium over disks. In this case, the machine runs Gentoo Linux, and the root filesystem is by no means going to use more than about 30GB anyway. With two mirrored 60GB Mushkin Callistos, I have all the disk space I need, blinding speed for even a number of parallel compiles, and 12GB of swap that's closer to the speed of major memory than to regular rotating disk. Combined with a Thuban-core PhenomII x6 and DDR3-1600 RAM, the outcome is a machine so blazingly rapidly it'll singe your eyebrows at thirty paces.

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This drive fly's. Windows Index went from five.9 on my 10.000rpm Raptor to 7.6 . Windows loads quicker and so does everything else. This is my first SSD drive so hopefully this thing lasts. True satisfied proper now.. No Cons. Delivered by UPS globe class shipping. New Egg packaged this drive real well. Generally hate it when someone gets mad at UPS for the poor packaging that New Egg does from time to time. Folks if it's packaged suitable then it will get there in a single piece. All shipping corporations ship their packages the very same way, either on a truck or an airplane. All packages go by way of the very same pounding no matter who the carrier is. The distinction is that UPS are the most professional and hardest functioning.

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None Only do half the speed as advertised and have lots of bad sector

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i have rated these drives ahead of, i have two of them now, bought six months apart, in raid and my w.e.i. is 7.9. anyway, one of them broke final week. so the time in between when i requested an rma number to the time i had a brand new drive in my hands was about 6 days. i requested rma # on tues, shipped it back on wed, and had a new drive on following tuesday. thats fairly unbelieveable. they didnt send me much more than 1 back, by error. mushkin often has great stuff and fantastic c.s.

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Enabled AHCI and speeds went from 225 read and 187 write to 279 read and 254 write instantaneously. Very best value per GB that I found. Obtain this if you want to cancel the bottleneck in your gaming rig. none

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Modest, No heat, .four-.2 ms latency, Raid with 3 drives is blistering quickly, 3 Year warranty, No moving parts, Nice packedging, Mushkin Excellent all about.Seriously this drive is actually rapidly. I dropped three in my gaming rid and set them up in Raid I get 700+ MBs read and write.I replaced three SAS 15K RPM drive and let me tell you I notice the distinction write away, games load in a 1ǚ of the time and the SAS drive were Quick as well. Fallout 3 utilised to Lag when reading new data but it doesn't even flinch, COD4 MW2 loads even ahead of it gets 1ቦ of the way into the cut scene, Metro 2033 requires perhaps two seconds to load a level.I swear this setup is truly seriously spoiling me on speed. From power button press to (Usable) Desktop even with password entry is only 25-30 seconds. Shutdown in less than 10.Once SSD is more affordable and a lot more mature I will be replacing all my Drives in all my computers. Loose feeling SATA connector tends to make me scared that it could pop off in the future. Size is a bit small but good with 3 in Raid . No raid controller will pass the trim command to a raid volume but, but that has absolutely nothing to do with the drive.Alignment with ghosting is challenging to recognize. Look like it didn't make a distinction although.Just about 500 for 160GB formated Raid is allot of funds. But When you want the fastest thing out there you have to pay a premium. Not positive if anybody else noticed that when the drive reads or writes a small red led flashes inside the case by the SATA connector. you can not see the led just the light from it. I guess this is to enable you to see it working because there is no sound from it operating.The integrated SSD adapter bracket is very good but it comes with custom thred screws so if you have an Antec 902 case like me with specific long screws for the HDD mounts then it might not work for you. I had to re-tap the holes and then I realized only two truly lined up. But where is it going to go it weighs a couple oz's. Would have perfered to be capable to place normal screws in the fram with out modding it.Would be cool to include things like a cool Translucent SATA cable to but I know most drive don't even come with a cable so..

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Produced in USA. Quick as advertised. Utilizing it as a Boot/OS/Apps drive. Fresh install of Win 7 Pro x64 followed by 1 month of standard usage and here are the ATTO benchmarks: Reads = 284mb/sec, writes = 266mb/sec on an HP Z200 Xeon Workstation. Significantly more quickly than the RAID ten 1TB data volume on the similar machine that is composed of 4x500GB SATA disks which max out at 174MB/sec read and 150MB/Sec write. This drive performs the exact same as my OCZ Vertex 2 120GB in my laptop. None

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I just got this SSD these days and it's performing wonderfully with Windows7 on it! 7.7 difficult drive rating!!! I'm not seriously sure how lived with the old 5400rpm laptop drive I had prior to. No SATA 6gbps, little costly.

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Fantastic speed in the Windows evironment. When past the GUI boot screen, my Pc is prepared to do what I ask almost instantaneously where prior to I would have to wait 20 sec for my HDD to catch up with itself. Installed, put Windows 7 Residence Premium on it. It booted up fine for awhile - but I just lately went through a stint exactly where it would have problems receiving previous the GUI boot screen. I suppose a new format might fix the difficulty.

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Quite fast, as expectedIncredibly very good bootdrive Had issues right after installing windows 7 about a week into it. Harddrive crashed and got the blue screen of death. Was able to repair it so as of now I can't complain

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price tag comparable to most other 60gb ssd's.box is boss.practically as rapid as advertised.mushkin buyer service which has been excellent with the ram and energy supplies i have owned. cost comparable to most other 60gb ssd's. which is as well considerably.must come with an adaptor that remotely fits a case that really exists in this universe. i had the very first one for around 5 or 6 months and it was flawless (w.e.i. 7.1) but 60gb just aint enough. so i purchased yet another a couple of weeks ago and now have raid (w.e.i. 7.9) its about 111gb in actual life. scaled perfectly, atto32 bench was one thing like 560 read릠 write for raid zero. now i will be able to see what happens when you dont have trim enabled on these drives.

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Rapidly and it performs, seems to work with HDSentinal(if you havent check this out may I advocate it. Im just making use of trial but it is plenty beneficial). Price tag, but worth it. I honestly dont believe a big ssd would be worth the cost, but this is best for a boot drive. 55GB formatted, im making use of 41GB proper now. Windows, Steam(games are on HDD), Itunes, FF, Chrome/Earth, Eclipse, Thunderbird and so on.

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Really rapidly, just about instant access occasions, perfectly quiet, surely more rapidly than a platter drive Doesn't hit advertised speeds, am employing a 6 month old motherboard (Asus) with Sata 3GB/s controllers. It's no slug by any suggests, but nevertheless really a bit lower than the advertised 275MB/s. Have done all settings including setting as AHCI and install all necessary drivers and settings inside Windows Ɨ 64Bit) and BIOS.HD Tune Pro:Min Read: 92.6Max Read: 194.Average: 153.9

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RapidlyVery good Size for an OS DriveNew Sandforce Controller CostLittle for a Data Drive 7.five in WEIQuickly adequate to discover a distinction from two old 74GB Raptors in raid .

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Operating two in a RAID setup is a attractive point. I’m enjoying my rig with these SSD drives with it’s incredibly rapidly read and write speeds. Windows 7 pro startup time is significantly more rapidly than ever. The slowest element of the startup sequence isn’t loading windows but the BIOS loading the settings and then the handoff to W7. After W7 has it and runs from the drives I’m on my desktop inside seconds which is wonderful. My preceding RAID setup was lagging behind even with four drives. WEI now registers as a 7.9 and my max read speeds are just beneath 500MB/s. The only situation I have is the response time. Occasionally even though undertaking common tasks it will take a second for the drive to respond which outcomes in W7 momentarily freeze. Of course when the drive becomes active once again then speeds are amazing. Other cons are the value. Granted Newegg had a promotional price tag on it but it will be good when NAND/MLC chips get more affordable to develop with much less errors and degradation over time. Whilst shipping by Newegg was pretty quickly I was much less than satisfied by the packaging when the box arrived. This was a Newegg situation. The other merchandise I ordered were just thrown in the box with tiny insulation to defend from shipping vibrations. Luckily nothing at all by what I can tell was damaged in transit.

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This is my first SSD and I am quite pleased. Surely additional pricey than a substantially greater capacity platter HDD, but my computer flies. Went with a lower capacity 60GB version simply because it's plenty for the OS and other core apps. I use separate platter HDDs to retailer information; I trust a pair of mirrored platters a lot more than an SDD for my data, anyway; apps I can reload no issue... Pricey. These will undoubtedly drop in price tag. Worth the price tag.

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Extremely high read AND write ... performs superbly. Under no circumstances related Mushkin with a lot but will now look for power search ' Mushkin' . None Have several SSD's ...this is a keeper.

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They function, and have fantastic read occasions. I purchased 2 of the 60Gb models, and in Raid-, there speed is 358MB's/sec study, and 薁MBs/sec" write, which is extremely poor! I expected far more from Mushkin! Manufacturer Response:Greetings! Please be conscious that the rated specs for these drives are optimal and based on a SATA three.0GB/s Interface. If you are running a method which makes use of SATA 1.5GB/s, you will see decreased efficiency. If you feel that your drives are defective, please really feel cost-free to get in touch with us at support@mushkin.com or 800.569.1868 and we will gladly enable diagnose any concerns with the drives and replace them as necessary.Thanks for choosing Mushkin!

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I've discovered this drive to reside up to all my expectations of what a SSD really should be, and was the easiest factor to install and update with the most recent firmware from the mushkin web site. Shipping was a bit slow, but that's absolutely nothing to do with the drive itself. Very reliable, no issues, only successes.