this is the Kronos Deluxe SSD from
mushkin it is a SATA 3 2 and 1/2 in SSD
and it comes in a box that's so big that it could be a 3 and 1/2 in SSD cuz
remember the bigger the box it comes in the more performance it has right guys
all right the Kronos SSD series is a Great Leap Forward using the SATA 3
protocol to provide 6 gbit per second super high for data coupled with the
solid state drives Kronos ssds will redefine the word fast yes I know I
skipped every other line but you guys pretty much know what they were going to
say anyway this one in particular is the 120 gig Drive although it is available
in other capacities including a 240 gig
drive and what is special about this
particular Drive well I would love to tell you that but why don't we start with the unboxing portion first so we
have a 2 and A2 to 3 and 1/2 in adapter and I've seen this particular adapter a
number of times with a number of different logos on it pretty standard
adapter you got your screw holes your other more different screw holes and
then you plug it into the thing all right we've got the SSD itself we've got
some mounting hardware so you got a couple screws that'll screw into the
adapter and then you've got a whole lot of foam so mushkin is not taking any
chances they're they're making it so you could you could put your SSD in here you
could wrap it up in here and you could like throw it at the wall and you could
you could be like the worst the worst Courier in the world then you could kind
of go like this and try to play you know hacky sack with the SSD and you're going
to pull it out of this box and there's going to be no damage to your safe SSD
with an inch of foam on every side whatsoever all right so let's pull out
the SSD itself and let's talk specs for a little bit here so this is a San Force
2281 Drive which is pretty much the same
controller that is being used in any sandforce SATA 3 SSD at this time but
there is is a difference in terms of the quality of the Nan chips that are used
from one drive to another not to say that some are more reliable than others
but in terms of the speed especially with random reads and writes you do get
better performance out of the deluxe Drive which uses toggle nand versus the
regular Kronos which does not so here we
go you can see the SSD itself is uh
labeled www.king.com Kronos SATA 3 Sal
state drive on the other side we find some more information such as oh look at
that they give you a firmware revision right on the right on the drive itself
most guys don't call out which firmware revision they're using but uh looks like
they do so this is a 120 gig SATA 6 gbit
per second as I mentioned it's available in other capacities you're going to find
a very standard interface on the back here there's your SATA 3 data there's
your SATA power you're going to have all your standard mounting holes so a lot of
people have asked me to do roundups of SATA 3 drives and I will tell you guys
it's kind of unnecessary because I can pretty much tell you what everything is
so the Kronos Deluxe I'll tell you guys what it is equivalent to it's equivalent
to the Max iops from ocz and it is equivalent to the Wildfire from Patriot
in terms of performance yes it will perform identically to either of those
drives so if you see a Kronos that's a good deal then go ahead and snap it up
you'll know what to compare it to in terms of pricing thank you for checking
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