Product ReviewsMushkin Chronos Deluxe 240GB 2.5IN SATA3 Sandforce SF-2281 SSD Solid State Disk Flash Drive
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 Rating: Review Date: 02/06/14  |
Cons: SATA connector does not latch firmly like other drives. PCB seems to move/flex slightly near connectors.
Pros: Price, Speed, Capacity, Technology |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/25/13 |
Cons: Died unexpectedly , SSD updater method is anachronistic
Pros: Fast , SF-2281 Comment:
While the brand is good it appears that this Mushkin SSD has somewhat of a QC/QA problem as many reviews on the web will say this product fails within months and even less time. I had experienced the same with this ssd and will be returning it for a refund. In this case I insured myself with the NCIX Express Exchange on this item as I was unsure of this SSD's quality. It's fast when it works and provides great performance but to have an SSD die out of nowhere (and this is the first ssd I've owned out of others to do this) is unfortunate and appears to be a defect perhaps during manufacturing.It doesn't say I am a verified owner on this review because it is not a web order but rather bought from store. |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/04/13 |
Cons: Nothing yet
Pros: Fast, Well Built, Good Reputation Comment:
This works great, My First SSD using as a boot drive and everythign installed super fast and has been running no problem at all so far. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/25/13 |
Cons: None
Pros: Fast boot upSilent Comment:
Bought for $180 to try as my first SSD drive. I'm very happy with the boost in speed compared to my old Western Digital black setup.The best part is there' no noise. It's nice not listening to hard drive vibration through my metal case. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/13/13 |
Cons: NONE!
Pros: Great price! wow what amazing performance! Comment:
Wow, this drive is so fast! It's a very well rated drive in terms of quality and durability! It's a great price/performance ratio! |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/11/13 |
Cons: None
Pros: Super fastComes with bracket Comment:
Bought on sale for 189, what a steal. My first SSD drive and wow, am I loving the boot times. Runs like a dream with Windows 7. Can't say how happy I am with the performance of this drive. If it's on sale, grab one. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/09/13 |
Cons: None so far
Pros: Reliable and fast Comment:
Have 2 of these in RAID-0 in my main build PC built May 2012. No issues whatsoever. Obviously a lot faster than my old velociraptor 300 gb |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/07/13 |
Cons: Limited Space - at current prices, you could consider the 480 GB version.
Pros: Very Fast, consistent, reliable, reasonably priced. Comment:
I bought this in April 2012, 11 months ago. This was a big improvement over my older SSD Drive, which would periodically become un-bootable.With this Mushkin Chronos Deluxe, the computer boots lightning fast; games and other programs load very fast as well. There have been no reliability issues (thinking of my old SSD), and no stuttering and the drive does not run noticeably slower even though I am typically around 90% capacity. The drive is fast, consistent and reliable.I do have to shuffle programs around periodically, due to the limited space on a 240 GB primary drive. Prices have come down in the meantime and I would buy the 480 GB if I was in the market for one of these today. |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/19/13 |
Cons: None
Pros: Fast, cost effective Comment:
So far, so good - performs as expected with no issues encountered. |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/27/13 |
Cons: No issues so far.
Pros: I have had no problems with this drive what so ever. Very fast. Runs at rated speeds. Comment:
AWESOME when it works. Installed in SATA 2/Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit laptop relatively easy and no problems. When I initially installed in SATA 3/Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit desktop-server for small business, customer was blown away... so was I. Boot/restart times were ridiculous. Cannot be overstated. No problems for 1 month... |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/11/13 |
Cons: so far none
Pros: Extremely fast, good price, good amount of space you dont need more than 240 for main drive I think Comment:
mushking assembles the these SSD in US, sandforce part still assembled in Taiwan as most of the other ssdMake sure setup your windows for ssd.(ex deactivating indexing etc)Me and my friend we bought 1 each 120gb mushking ssd like a year ago so far we are really happy with it so I bought same brand for my desktop |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/17/12 |
Cons: -mail in rebate was in a check form provided in USD dollars. bank charged me money
Pros: -fast-large capacity for cheap-mushkin does regular firmware updates when needed Comment:
Great drive. running this in my acer v3 laptop. just makes everything feel faster |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/25/12 |
Cons: Still leery of sandforce
Pros: Good price / performance ratio Comment:
Have worked great in a pair of PCs so far. We've not been stressing them with huge amounts of I/O, but they work nice and fast for our gaming needs.The capacity is at a decent level where we can install a number of games and not worry about filling them up. Networked storage handles all our data storage needs. |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/16/12 |
Cons: Nothing
Pros: Fast, Cheap Comment:
I am very pleased with the price and performance. My OS and programs load WAAYYY faster. I would definitely buy this drive again! |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/19/12 |
Cons: - Still lacking in gb/$ compared to HDD's
Pros: - Very fast- Good size- Very nice price for this good of an SSD Comment:
Very fast and nice size for an OS with lots of games. I was running out of space because of Steam on my 120Gb SSD, so I decided to upgrade. This thing is far faster than my Corsair GT 120, and twice the size. Definitely can't complain for the price. |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/06/12 |
Cons: Sandforce, i.e., not good for pics, vids, incompressible data
Pros: Toggle NAND Comment:
Samsung 830 has greater consistency with all data types. Purchased for $220 in Apr 2012, $170 in Aug 2012. |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/02/12 |
Cons: None
Pros: Great price for the quality and space.FastPlug and playFree bracket Comment:
I had a Kingston SSD V100 64GB and I needed more space for my applications and games. I bought it few months ago (it is a lot cheaper now) and no problems since the first day I started using it. It is very easy to install and to upgrade the firmware. I would recommend that SSD for anyone. |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/26/12 |
Cons: - None that I can think of
Pros: - Great Price- Fast and Reliable- Easy To Install- Great Firmware Support Comment:
It's really a great drive for the price. Also comes with bracket which is also nice. No problems at all with SSD detection on a newer motherboard with IDE or AHCI. |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/23/12 |
Cons: none so far
Pros: Price/GB, Price/Performance Comment:
I got this one as an upgrade from an OCZ Solid3 128GB for my tower pc. Chronos Deluxe can compete with Vertex 3 MaxIops for a fraction of the price. The upgrade from a SSD to a faster SSD in'st as noticable as from HDD to SSD in real life senario. It will mostly only boost synthetic benchmark but at the price i got it it was a most to try. For my first SSD I though 128gb would be enough but it was'nt unless I'D put many of my program on a hdd. 240GB should do the job as long as photo, video and other non executable data stay on hdd. My old solid3 is now boosting my laptop so both my tower and my laptop are now lightning fast! |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/20/12 |
Cons: None so far
Pros: Fast! Great price, great quality! Comment:
For the quality of the flash and speed of this drive, its a steal when on sale !Buy Buy Buy! Im up to 3 and thinking of purchasing at least 2 more...Due to these drive having great built in garbage collection, using them in Raid isnt such a big deal or if using a none Trim supporting OS. |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/09/12 |
Cons: -much more expensive than a magnetic hard drive
Pros: -fast-quiet-lots of storage for games/applications along with OS Comment:
This drive performs as one of the top SSD's in the market and has plenty of storage to fit quite a few games on there along with your OS. At the 240GB size the cost of this drive on sale is under $1/GB which gives it much better value over the 60/90/120 GB size SSD's. For avid gamers this is the perfect size SSD, as a 120GB SSD cannot hold more than 2-3 modern games, especially if one or more of them are MMO's. The sandforce drives drop greatly in performance for sizes above 256GB, so this drive is perfect for both storage and performance. This drive also comes with a 3.5 inch bay adapter for those with older cases that don't support 2.5 inch drives. |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/27/12 |
Cons: - none
Pros: - as fast as the reviews said- great price for top-teir 240GB drive ($220 at time of purchase) Comment:
One of the fastest SSDs around at this point, and at a great price. Will recommend this drive to anyone looking to purchase a SSD in the near future. |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/26/12 |
Cons: non
Pros: Great PriceFast Comment:
Great Price, got this for $199Fast, loads BF3 in less than 30sec |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/19/12 |
Cons: The non OD drive has dropped out once so far. May have something to do with the SATA cable.I've been waiting for the rebate for over 3 months now. I'll probably never buy another of Mushkins products on rebate because of this EVER.
Pros: Quick, quiet, fairly consistent Comment:
I have two that I am using right now. One for OS and the other for files and programs. Installation was just a matter of a minor bios switch, and away we went. Win 7 loads up nice an quick. Games load up fine too. Recently the data drive went into 'not present mode. It was really annoying. a quick google and playing with the sata cable, and a reboot and all seems well (for now). I am seriously thinking about putting a sata drive back in for the data drive for reliability issues. The rebate is 3 months in coming and I don't think that is good enough. This alone is a deal breaker for a return for purchase of ANY of their other products. |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/19/12 |
Cons: No utility to check on and manually trimrebate slow to get processed
Pros: Very fast drive - great for boot + applicationsHaven't seen significant slowdown with the drive not full Comment:
Good drive, much faster than my old intel 80G ssd.Great price now for under 200 - although I paid 250 - 30 MIR |
I have had my drive for several months and it seems really good. I have not had any problems. The speed is great. The price/value was also very competitive. Overall, a very good SSD for the money.