G.SKILL Phoenix Pro Series FM-25S2S-120GBP2 2.5" MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

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It was quick when they worked. Rma process is fairly easy and pretty fast. 1st drive worked less than a month then it failed. 2nd drive worked for about 1 month also then it failed as properly. Now i have to rma it. Manufacturer Response:.Dear ClientWe sincerely apologize about this issue. It is very odd that you have such difficulties. Hopefully it is an isolated case and will by no means occur once again. All G.Talent Phoenix Series SSDs are covered by a three year warranty. If the drive ever becomes defective inside this time period, we will be able to send you a replacement promptly. If you have any further queries or issues, please feel free of charge to let us know. Thank youGSKILL SupportTop quality and consumer service are our best priorities.Tech Help Email: ustech@gskillusa.comRMA Dept E-mail: rma@gskillusa.comG.Ability Forum: http://www.gskill.us/forum/

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Greatest SSD for the money in the 120GB range. Came with the adapter to mount in 3.five spot None

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Quickly when new. But that only lasted a couple weeks or so. Create overall performance has degraded seriously. ( in all categories). Support is abysmal - relies on forums with a couple of incredibly incomplete posts by moderators and small stick to-up. (And, yes, the drive is aligned correctly.)Have attempted every little thing suggested. Switching ACHI drivers from Intel to MS, regedits for trim assistance, updating bios. Nothing assists! Their bios update tool doesn't work at all! It's most likely that TRIM isn't operating properly...I'm no pro but am quite excellent at following directions cautiously and reading involving the lines. Practically nothing they recommend operates! Promised tools have under no circumstances appeared. Have had this drive six months, use for system only at a fraction of its capacity, and have been patiently waiting for help on this challenge. I have utilized g.talent memory in the previous with great outcomes and long life. Sadly memory and ssd client help specifications are really various factors. G.Ability truly requirements to do a Significantly better job supporting their SSD's.If you want a Sandforce drive I advise purchasing an OCZ. Manufacturer Response:.Dear BuyerWe are sorry to hear you are obtaining such issues. Please post your personal thread on the forums and we can help you with your certain difficulty. We have guides and tools for anything, and they are established to operate fine, so we need to troubleshoot your certain case to see what the challenge is. You really should not have these difficulties, so a thread will allow us to maintain track and figure out what is causing the difficulty. In addition, write overall performance will degrade, it is inevitable for any drive as it is continously written and employed, but that is where TRIM and such characteristics help minimize and recover some losses.Thank youGSKILL AssistanceExcellent and client service are our prime priorities.Tech Help Email: ustech@gskillusa.comRMA Dept Email: rma@gskillusa.comG.Skill Forum: http://www.gskill.us/forum/

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Rapidly! BLazing Rapid SSD's are great Has troubles waking up from sleep using ICH10R Sata I can use it on the Marvell Sata port works fine.It has also be a driver problem from Intel. I can not fault the drive for this because I have know what the issue is.

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Fast drive. Speed up my import procedure of my photography workflow one hundred%. I am employing a Macbook Pro 15" 2007 model operating OSX ten.6 with a SATA 1 controller. The initially drive I sent back simply because my computer would not recognize the drive and I believed it was DOA. Second drive had the very same difficulty so I did some testing. I have figured out the issue and written about the answer on my blog. www benbirk com / weblog . Do I nevertheless have a messed up drive? How long will it final?RMA was quite slow. Manufacturer Response:.Dear ClientWe are sorry to hear you had concerns. With a Sandforce based SSD, there is a unique way to install the drive. Please take a look at the Official G.Ability Forum for facts:http://www.gskill.us/forum/showthread.php?t򖦬Glad to hear you were in a position to get the drive functioning adequately. If you have any additional queries or issues, please don't hesitate to speak to us directly.Thank youGSKILL SupportTop quality and buyer service are our prime priorities.Tech Support Email: ustech@gskillusa.comRMA Dept E-mail: rma@gskillusa.comG.Talent Forum: http://www.gskill.us/forum/

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super quick! 1st time SSD user.I had tons of other HD's in the previous even the 10k raptor drives and none of them come close to the speeds of these ssds! installation was a small wierd

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Good speeds all my games and programs load practically immediately now. none so far I want I would have bought one more for my laptop!

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Above typical MTBF for SSD'sHigh study/write speeds.You actually won't totally appreciate the overall performance increase until you boot a spindle on another personal computer, it's like going to dial-up from broadband. Idle power usage is substantial if you run on battery.Expense; I got this three months ago for 214$, it's 240$ now... what the hell? The AMD ACHI driver (and the default microsoft driver) is incapable of a queue length above 1, so you may well not get all of the enormous RANDOM I/O performance stated. It's only a problem for random I/O, substantial transfers sill happen at complete speed. In spite of the non-Intel mobo driver difficulty, it's often more rapidly at its worst than a mechanical drive at its ideal. I have not done any firmware updates.Got this drive approx 3 months ago.If the drive disappears from the BIOS boot list, as if it all of a sudden died, swap SATA ports, reset the bios, and/or restart a few instances. <-- Some SATA ports appear to faint at the awesomeness of the devices connected to them.

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Quick read and write speeds, got at a great price, very fantastic tech. support. Read and create speed fluctuate madly even on unwritten drive. Only 111gb usable space out of the 120gb. Other brands have 119gb out of 120gb actual space. Got for 赧 on sale, which is a great value but the constant fluctuations in study and create speeds is annoying and I'm disappointed that there is significantly less actual space on the HD compared to other brands of the very same size. Manufacturer Response:.Dear ConsumerWe are sorry to hear you are not fully happy with your SSD. We are at the moment looking into the speed fluctuation issue as there has been a couple of cases. Please check out the Official G.Skill Forum for the latest updates and data. Also, if you can, post your hardware details and such so we may well try to replicate this difficulty to see if it can be fixed. Only by means of user feedback will we be capable to realize how the SSD performs in various hardware combinations. Thank youGSKILL AssistanceQuality and consumer service are our top rated priorities.Tech Support E mail: ustech@gskillusa.comRMA Dept Email: rma@gskillusa.comG.Ability Forum: http://www.gskill.us/forum/

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Was incredibly quickly when it was operating. Very rapid failure when it occurred. Device showed no warnings of pending/imminent failure immediately after months of use then, boom... each SATA controller the SDD is attached to locks up SDD speed enhance is fantastic; sdd failures are incredibly unsettling (gone are the excellent ole days of clever warnings, rotational clunking noises, and so forth.) Manufacturer Response:.Dear BuyerWe are sorry to hear there is a difficulty with the drive. Please send it in for RMA and the replacement should work greater. All G.Skill Phoenix Series SSDs are backed by a three year warranty. For any defects such as what you have knowledgeable, we can exchange it with a new replacement. If you have any further inquiries or issues, please feel totally free to speak to us directly.Thank youGSKILL AssistanceExcellent and client service are our top priorities.Tech Help Email: ustech@gskillusa.comRMA Dept E mail: rma@gskillusa.comG.Skill Forum: http://www.gskill.us/forum/

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I see a large difference in boot up speed. I also see my applications load in most case in less than half the time of my old 7200RPM drive. The benchmarks look to be reduced than what it ought to be rated. For example for the sequential read I get 190MB/s rather than the 275MB/s or so this drive is rated for. I have noticed tweaks to get the complete speed out of this drive, but you sacrifice battery power so I rather not. I would suggest doing a full image of your machine immediately after you have installed anything on your new SSD. It is a known reality that SSD can die anywhere from the initial week to the 3 month of ownership. Now the chances seem to be low, but its greatest to be secure rather than sorry. Manufacturer Response:.Dear ClientThank you for your G.Ability buy and overview. This SSD will make most platter drives appear ancient. The greatest advantage of SSDs is the low constant seek time. Most HDDs have an average seek time of 9ns, whereas a SSD is .1ns. HDDs are also typical times, whereas SSDs are continual, meaning you get consistent functionality no matter what the scenario. With regards to study/write/copy transfer prices, SSDs will also outperform most HDDs. When benchmarking, make confident to use the ATTO Disk Benchmark Test as it is most accurate. Other programs will have slightly varying final results. If you have any further questions or issues, please don't hesitate to make contact with us directly. For all the newest SSD updates and details, pay a visit to the Official G.Talent Forum.Thank youGSKILL AssistanceTop quality and customer service are our top rated priorities.Tech Help E-mail: ustech@gskillusa.comRMA Dept E mail: rma@gskillusa.comG.Talent Forum: http://www.gskill.us/forum/

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Good Drive, straightforward installation, quite fast. None - so far. I installed this drive as a second information drive on a Windows 7 Pro I7-860 system. I installed it 11񳏊 and three months later it has worked flawless. I have a Internet Application that is extremely information intensive and was quite sluggish. I decided to experiment with this drive because Passmark had the speed rating incredibly high and it was in my value variety. I ran several benchmarks with Passmark and my personal application. I don't have the exact numbers since that was three months ago but there was no comparison in the speed distinction. Certainly worth the dollars with the performance acquire. The primary drive in the system is operating off of a 9750-4i SATA/SAS Raid Controller with 512MB Cache so not a slow setup.Some of the reviews have me concerned, but hopefully that is the tiny exception. It was good to see the Manufacture respond.

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Very good drive, purchased during one of Newegg's great Day-to-day Deals. Works quick, this is sandforce 1200, so onpar w/ the Vertex 2 drives (hardware wise) Is quickly as can get, wonderful size for the cost Quite strange, the drive case is poorly manufactured, at least my copy of it, the actual housing is not straight edged but slightly warped/bent. Placing this into a thinkpad x61s drive sled was just about forcing the metal case straight, extremely very snug match into the case but it eventually match and it works. But deducting two eggs for horrible building excellent, at this expense for their best tier item, every little thing should be appropriate not sure if the drive is at fault but win7 provides me the bsod a couple of times so far. unknown if stress on the shell could have an effect on the drive (?) but it shouldn't but, never know what's causing it. own just about every version of the vertex and other similiar ssd's and this is 1st one that has this peculiar dilemma w/ building and bsod, so i have to rule out i'm at fault :Pthis is my initially Gskill non RAM solution.. perhaps staying w/ their ram only... will have to see. (just an early opinion)installed into Thinkpad x61s Manufacturer Response:.Dear ConsumerWe are sorry to hear there is a challenge with your SSD. Please send it in for RMA and replacement need to be superior. You are correct in that the SSD ought to be flawless, so if not, an exchange is not a difficulty. All G.Skill Phoenix Series are covered by a 3 year warranty, if you have any problem inside this time period, we can replace the SSD with a new one particular. For any further inquiries or issues, please feel free of charge to speak to our assistance division straight.Thank youGSKILL AssistanceQuality and consumer service are our prime priorities.Tech Help E-mail: ustech@gskillusa.comRMA Dept E-mail: rma@gskillusa.comG.Ability Forum: http://www.gskill.us/forum/

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Bought the drive ten-27-ten and it's been running like a champ in my program. Quicker than SNOT! They can always be less costly. :o)

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Rapidly, requires only tens of seconds to boot into Ubuntu, and significantly less than 30 seconds to boot into windows 7 ultimate. When resume from sleep under windows 7, "blue screen of death" (BSOD) occurs each time causing my laptop to reboot. This happened correct following I installed Windows 7 Ultimate clean without having any drivers. Situation remains even right after all available windows updates have been applied.Then finally, a month later, the SSD failed. My laptop stuck in post screen while the HDD activity LED remain on. I tried to put it in USB enclosure, but failed to be detected by each Windows 7 & Ubuntu systems. I wonder why newegg only makes it possible for exchange policy rather of refund.... Manufacturer Response:.Dear BuyerWe are sorry to hear there is a dilemma with your SSD. Please send it in for RMA and the replacement need to operate much better. You need to not have these issues with this drive, so it seems to be a terrible one particular. If you have any additional concerns or problems, please don't hesitate to get in touch with us straight.Thank youGSKILL HelpExcellent and customer service are our top priorities.Tech Support E-mail: ustech@gskillusa.comRMA Dept Email: rma@gskillusa.comG.Talent Forum: http://www.gskill.us/forum/

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At least it perform 50% of the time. When it worked windows index 7.six. I did a clean install for Windows 7 64BIT. 25 % of the time the disk can't be located. 25% of the time the disk fail to boot. This is my Third SSD - All obtain from Newegg. I have the Intel x-25m, OCZ AGILITY two, and this G. Ability pro. I have never have ANY situation on clean set up on the intel and OCZ. I seriously wanted to put this 1 to the test against the ocz and intel but, I was disappointed that it keeps failing. Lets hope the RMA is excellent. Manufacturer Response:.Dear ConsumerWe sincerely apologize for the incovenience. We are sorry to hear you are having such challenges. Please send the SSD in for RMA and the replacement need to perform much far better. All G.Ability Phoenix Series SSDs are backed by a 3 year warranty. Need to the SSD turn out to be defective within this time frame, we can certainly exchange it with a new one particular. If you have any further queries or troubles, please don't hesitate to get in touch with us straight.Thank youGSKILL AssistanceQuality and consumer service are our best priorities.Tech Help Email: ustech@gskillusa.comRMA Dept E-mail: rma@gskillusa.comG.Ability Forum: http://www.gskill.us/forum/

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Installed Windows 7 property 64-bit with AHCI enabled drive ran wonderful and super rapidly bootup and shutdown occasions.WEI score of 7.eight with single ssd drive on ASUS p7p55d pro board. Following about 40 days my drive began dissapearing from BIOS and randomly freezing in Windows 7.I have sent in for RMA to G.Talent I hope the replacement is far better and does not take extended to replace. I love the speeds of this drive but not the downtime I am experiencing. Manufacturer Response:.Dear ClientWe are sorry to hear you are getting such concerns. The SSD ought to be detected in BIOS each and every time, so please send it in for RMA. The replacement drive really should function a lot much better and not have this challenge. The functionality on this SSD is great, so hopefully you can appreciate without any troubles. If you have any further questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to speak to us straight. For all the newest SSD updates and details, please take a look at the Official G.Ability Forum.Thank youGSKILL SupportExcellent and customer service are our top rated priorities.Tech Assistance Email: ustech@gskillusa.comRMA Dept E mail: rma@gskillusa.comG.Talent Forum: http://www.gskill.us/forum/

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Quick, specifically what I wanted. Everything I anticipated it to be except... I turned away from my computer system for ten seconds, turned back and my screen was black. My SSD had a sudden death in the middle of opening up Starcraft II. Only had it considering that after black friday (Nov 26th) (today is Dec 28th) Don't purchase. Go for OCZ, Intel or Vital. These all operate. Manufacturer Response:.Dear BuyerWe are very sorry to hear the SSD is defective. Please send it in for RMA and replacement should work significantly much better. All Phoenix Series SSDs are covered by a 3 year warranty for these sorts of circumstances. If for what ever reason the drive is defective right after a day, month, or year of use, we can have it replaced with a new one. For any questions or issues, please don't hesitate to speak to us straight.Thank youGSKILL SupportQuality and client service are our prime priorities.Tech Help E mail: ustech@gskillusa.comRMA Dept E-mail: rma@gskillusa.comG.Ability Forum: http://www.gskill.us/forum/

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So far so great. Speed rating and IOPS for this product are accurate, with a sager np8662 I get 𞵋MB/s reads and 𞴿MB/s writes, and boot instances are very quickly. The cost/GB and value/speed for this drive were the finest at the time I purchased the drive. I do not regret obtaining this drive as it has saved me considerable wait time already. Wish it was bigger, but there appears to be a massive value jump from 120GB to 160GB or higher.

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Rapid on benchmarksPhotoshop loads in Ӯ secs1080P videos load in a instantcopying files to and from raid drive is super fast. (at 140mb sec HDD raid is my bottleneck) Quite a few games show no reduce in load instances or if they do too little to matter.Loading AHCI adds so substantially time to the load time that most of the advantage from the SSD is lost.Poor instructions I would most most likely see and feel the distinction a lot more if I rebooted each day but as I can go 1-two weeks with no rebooting it really hard to tell.