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this is the Kronos Deluxe SSD from

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mushkin it is a SATA 3 2 and 1/2 in SSD

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and it comes in a box that's so big that it could be a 3 and 1/2 in SSD cuz

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remember the bigger the box it comes in the more performance it has right guys

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all right the Kronos SSD series is a Great Leap Forward using the SATA 3

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protocol to provide 6 gbit per second super high for data coupled with the

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solid state drives Kronos ssds will redefine the word fast yes I know I

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skipped every other line but you guys pretty much know what they were going to

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say anyway this one in particular is the 120 gig Drive although it is available

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in other capacities including a 240 gig

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drive and what is special about this

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particular Drive well I would love to tell you that but why don't we start with the unboxing portion first so we

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have a 2 and A2 to 3 and 1/2 in adapter and I've seen this particular adapter a

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number of times with a number of different logos on it pretty standard

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adapter you got your screw holes your other more different screw holes and

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then you plug it into the thing all right we've got the SSD itself we've got

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some mounting hardware so you got a couple screws that'll screw into the

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adapter and then you've got a whole lot of foam so mushkin is not taking any

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chances they're they're making it so you could you could put your SSD in here you

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could wrap it up in here and you could like throw it at the wall and you could

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you could be like the worst the worst Courier in the world then you could kind

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of go like this and try to play you know hacky sack with the SSD and you're going

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to pull it out of this box and there's going to be no damage to your safe SSD

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with an inch of foam on every side whatsoever all right so let's pull out

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the SSD itself and let's talk specs for a little bit here so this is a San Force

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2281 Drive which is pretty much the same

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controller that is being used in any sandforce SATA 3 SSD at this time but

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there is is a difference in terms of the quality of the Nan chips that are used

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from one drive to another not to say that some are more reliable than others

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but in terms of the speed especially with random reads and writes you do get

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better performance out of the deluxe Drive which uses toggle nand versus the

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regular Kronos which does not so here we

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go you can see the SSD itself is uh

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labeled www.king.com Kronos SATA 3 Sal

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state drive on the other side we find some more information such as oh look at

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that they give you a firmware revision right on the right on the drive itself

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most guys don't call out which firmware revision they're using but uh looks like

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they do so this is a 120 gig SATA 6 gbit

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per second as I mentioned it's available in other capacities you're going to find

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a very standard interface on the back here there's your SATA 3 data there's

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your SATA power you're going to have all your standard mounting holes so a lot of

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people have asked me to do roundups of SATA 3 drives and I will tell you guys

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it's kind of unnecessary because I can pretty much tell you what everything is

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so the Kronos Deluxe I'll tell you guys what it is equivalent to it's equivalent

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to the Max iops from ocz and it is equivalent to the Wildfire from Patriot

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in terms of performance yes it will perform identically to either of those

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drives so if you see a Kronos that's a good deal then go ahead and snap it up

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you'll know what to compare it to in terms of pricing thank you for checking

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