Mushkin unveil affordable 1TB SSD

[Fulgrim]

It may lack in performance compared to other SSD's, but it's still better than a mechanical drive. Glad to see someone trying to bring their prices down.

 

 

 

Although solid-state drives are considerably more affordable these days than they were several years ago, high-capacity 1TB SSDs remain pretty expensive and with price-points like £349/$550 out of budget of the vast majority of PC enthusiasts. However, the situation is changing.

Mushkin Enhanced, a leading maker of advanced PC components, on Thursday unveiled its new breed solid-state drives called Reactor that is expected to wed high-capacity with relatively affordable price. At present the new family includes only 1TB model, but eventually Mushkin may expand the new product line with lower-capacity or higher-capacity offerings.

The Mushkin Reactor solid-state drive with 1TB capacity comes in 2.5”/7mm form-factor, it features Serial ATA-6Gb/s interface and 1GB DDR3 DRAM cache. The Reactor SSD is based on rather inexpensive quad-channel Silicon Motion SM2246EN controller and multi-level cell NAND flash memory (according to Newegg store, Mushkin itself did not reveal the type of flash it uses). The new drive offers 560MB/s maximum sequential read speeds as well as 460MB/s maximum sequential write speeds, which is not bad by today’s standards. Unfortunately, random 4KB performance of up to 74K/76K read/write IOPS [input/output operations per second] is significantly below that of contemporary SSDs based on other controllers. Mushkin’s Reactor solid-state drive supports all modern SSD technologies, including TRIM, NCQ, DevSleep, DataRefresh, EartlyRetirement, SMART, secure erase and so on.

 

 

Even though Mushkin’s Reactor 1TB SSD is not a performance champion, it costs significantly less than the vast majority of 1TB solid-state drives. Newegg currently sells Mushkin Reactor 1TB for $379.99 ($0.37999 per GB). The same store offers Crucial M550 for $449.99 ($0.44999 per GB). While Samsung 840 Evo 1TB costs $359.99 ($0.35999) and is still the cheapest SSD with this capacity, it is based on TLC NAND flash, which wears out quicker than MLC NAND memory. Typically, brand-new products are sold at full price, hence, over time the price of Mushkin Reactor SSD will decline.

“Solid-state drive technology is growing in leaps and bounds. Mushkin has been a leader in unleashing performance-maximizing products for a wide array of consumers, and we are pleased to be able to – once again – offer an SSD solution that can quench the growing need for large-scale data capacity at incredible speeds,” said Nicolas Villalobos, director of global marketing at Mushkin.

Thanks to availability of relatively affordable Mushkin Reactor 1TB and Samsung 840 Evo 1TB SSDs, solid-state drives with capacities comparable to modern hard drives cease to be exotic and start to be products that will be seriously considered by those who need a lot of solid-state drive space, but do not have a limitless budget.

 

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[ImBleu]

I'd probably still go for the 840 evo because Its a more known brand.

[Guest Kloaked]

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[Fulgrim]

I'd probably still go for the 840 evo because Its a more known brand.

They've been around for a few years, i recall using some Mushkin DDR2 modules quite a while back.

[UltraNeonGaming]

Just get 2 512GB MX100's and run them in RAID 0, Faster cos of RAID 0 and well known brand (Micron)

[Antistatic12]

Nice to see some competition!
But these companies need to start focusing on 2/3/4/5/6TB  consumer level SSD's.
1TB SSD's have been around for a little while now. Need to up the capacity.
 

[Darkman]

Wonder how cheap it would be on a sale.

[Derangel]

I'd probably still go for the 840 evo because Its a more known brand.

 

Mushkin isn't a huge name in the SSD field but they used to be fairly well known and well regarded in the memory market. I haven't heard anything overly bad about their SSDs, but I think I'd also go for the Evo.

[zacRupnow]

I'd probably still go for the 840 evo because Its a more known brand.

Mushkin has been making enterprise storage far longer than Samsung has been making anything

 

Edit- well I don't know about that long but the point is they're well established in enterprise storage and I expect their level of quality and reliability when purchasing their consumer SSDs

[PillowSmoke]

made in usa.

[The Crazed Child]

Mushkin is a pretty good brand from what I've heard, might be worth buying.

[DuckDodgers]

Nice to see some competition!

But these companies need to start focusing on 2/3/4/5/6TB  consumer level SSD's.

1TB SSD's have been around for a little while now. Need to up the capacity.

 

 

Not until we see more V-NAND vendors around. Intel/Micron won't be ready until H2'2015 and the rest of the competition is due to some time in 2016. Only Samsung is reaping the market now, though they can "technically" release >2TB drives at any moment.

 

Also, SATA Express is right due.

[qwertywarrior]

i was going to post this yesterday but found out it was a stupid pointless post since the 840 EVO was cheaper so i ignored it

[Morpheus]

i was going to post this yesterday but found out it was a stupid pointless post since the 840 EVO was cheaper so i ignored it

1tb 840 EVO ? o.0

[qwertywarrior]

1tb 840 EVO ? o.0

yeah $359.99

[Morpheus]

yeah $359.99

wow never knew that lol

[rashdanml]

Huh, those are some decently priced 1TB SSDs. 

[LukaP]

 

I based on TLC NAND flash, which wears out quicker than MLC NAND memory.

 

In theory... Samsung though has better software, and is a reputable SSD maker... would rather get that, plus its faster

[Mooshi]

That's neat. Sticker is kind of fugly though like it belongs on scotch tape or camera film. If this were made of the same red aluminium of their Redline series ram, I'd be instantly hyped.

[DeathRtH]

"Affordable."

[Opask]

Just get 2 512GB MX100's and run them in RAID 0, Faster cos of RAID 0 and well known brand (Micron)

[Trik'Stari]

How in hell is $500 affordable?

[Jerakl]

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I'm gunna buy one eventually.

[LukaP]

How in hell is $500 affordable?

350 no? but still crazy...

[Trik'Stari]

350 no? but still crazy...

Indeed. Then again, for me anything over $20 is expensive.......