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Sorry about dropping your laptop, but you've got a solid state hard drive, right? It should be okay. No? Oops, my mistake.
Rated for shocks up to 1500 Gs, this 120 GB drive is almost half as tough as an airplane's "black box" (3400 Gs), is light weight and takes little power to run. With one million hours mean time between failures (MTBF), your drive and your data might outlive you. And the SATA II interface and standard form factor make retrofitting this drive a breeze. Your computer will never notice the difference, but you probably will. But laptops are not the only computers to gain: any rugged environment, or any place you need an absolutely silent drive will benefit.
So you take your time and make the right decision. And when you do, we'll be right here, ready to help.
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- Pros: HD Tune Benchmarks
Read Average: 97.6MB/sec
Read Access Time: 0.5ms
Write Average: 36.6MB/sec
Write Access Time: 0.5ms
Performs very close to advertised throughput speeds.
Windows Vista Ultimate Boot = 34 Seconds
Photoshop CS3 Load = 5 Seconds
This drive is simply amazing. The machine simply is quick application load times are super quick, and it is hard to find fault with the speed. Write speed is a little on the slow side but due to the quick seek times it certainly does not feel slow. This certainly feels a whole lot faster than my Samsung 64GB SATA I drive. This is very comparable to the speed and quickness of a modern desktop hard drive.
- Cons: Oddly the drive came formatted with NTFS. I'm not sure why you would want an internal drive pre-formatted. The build quality of the drive is not quite what you’d expect for paying so much for. The entire drive is covered in a thin layer of sheetmetal. It really feels cheap almost like an Altoids can. This is certainly a far cry of the really awesome looking Samsung drives with the milled aluminum enclosure.
Super Talent rates this drive at lasting 65.75 years with 50GB write/erase a day. So the calculation on that is 10,000 Write/erase cycles * 120GB / 50GB = 24000 / 365 days = 65.7534 Years; so they rounded a bit. So for desktop/mobile applications this should effectively be longer than the life of the machine (Who really uses a 10 year old machine much less a machine older than my parents?). It is somewhat concerning in that Super Talent only offers a 1 year warranty on this drive.
- Other Thoughts: It is really hard to find a fault with this drive at all. It performs great, very close to the advertised speed. The drive packaging (both box, and enclosure) are pretty cheap and is very unassuming. However, these are really minor in the grand scheme of things. I would definitely recommend this drive for any power user wanting to put up the cash. Do not be put off by the fallacies of MLC memory this drive is very quick!
Stay Away...
- Pros: When it works, it worked great. Notebook was eerily silent without HD seeks.
- Cons: Heat. It runs quite a bit hotter than a normal 2.5" drive. After 4.5 weeks the drive is non-functional. Recognized by windows, but cannot initialize or format due to an I/O device error.
- Other Thoughts: I'd recommend to stay away. Until this happened, I was considering purchasing 2-3 more of them. However, now I have to try to get an RMA from Super Talent since newegg won't RMA it due to it being past 30 days. Drive appears to have a history of dying shortly after 30 days from reading past reviews.
| Model | FTM20GK25H |
| Form Factor | 2.5" |
| Capacity | 120GB |
| Interface Type | SATA II |
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Best MLC SSD Available
- Pros: Extremely fast reads > 100Gb/s
Decent write speed ~20-40Gb/s
Seek time is almost non-existent
Quiet and relatively free from hot spots
No compatibility issues in my testing on very new AMD Puma platform (contrasted with OCZ which, so far, has not worked in my system)
- Cons: Write speed is worse that a high quality spinning laptop drive
No improvement in battery life = its eating as much power as a hard drive
- Other Thoughts: I have tried both this and the OCZ. The Super Talent was trouble-free, though it is critical to update all your drivers and bios. If working in Vista, you MUST update to SP1 and apply all MS updates - very important as earlier Vista had major issues with SSDs in general. My OCZ is still not working right (working with support there) on the same system, so I would recommend the Super Talent over the OCZ unless you are sure your system is compatible with OCZ.
Stay Away...
- Pros: When it works, it worked great. Notebook was eerily silent without HD seeks.
- Cons: Heat. It runs quite a bit hotter than a normal 2.5" drive. After 4.5 weeks the drive is non-functional. Recognized by windows, but cannot initialize or format due to an I/O device error.
- Other Thoughts: I'd recommend to stay away. Until this happened, I was considering purchasing 2-3 more of them. However, now I have to try to get an RMA from Super Talent since newegg won't RMA it due to it being past 30 days. Drive appears to have a history of dying shortly after 30 days from reading past reviews.
Over-hyped technology...
- Pros: Talking solid-state drives in general, they'll great in laptops. Use less power, generate less heat and so on.
- Cons: Lots of people think these are faster than normal mechanical hard drives and put them in their desktop computers. Sorry to say, solid-state is not faster then 2 10k hard drives in raid 0. That's only 2, with raid you can add a lot more than 2 which blows these drives out of the water.
- Other Thoughts: 2 10k drives in raid 0 are much cheaper than any SSD really and honestly, SSD technology is still pretty new and is not as dependable as normal mechanical hard drives.
| General |
| Brand |
SUPER TALENT |
| Model |
FTM20GK25H |
| Device Type |
Internal Solid state disk (SSD) |
| Dimensions |
| Width |
2.75" |
| Depth |
3.95" |
| Height |
0.38" |
| Expansion / Connectivity |
| Form Factor |
2.5" |
| Capacity |
120GB |
| Interface Type |
SATA II |
| Performance |
| Max Shock Resistance |
1500G |
| Max Vibration Resistance |
16G |
| Sequential Access - Read |
120MB/s(max) |
| Sequential Access - Write |
80MB/s |
| MTBF |
1,000,000 hours |
Introduction
Sorry about dropping your laptop, but you've got a solid state hard drive, right? It should be okay. No? Oops, my mistake.
Rated for shocks up to 1500 Gs, this 120 GB drive is almost half as tough as an airplane's "black box" (3400 Gs), is light weight and takes little power to run. With one million hours mean time between failures (MTBF), your drive and your data might outlive you. And the SATA II interface and standard form factor make retrofitting this drive a breeze. Your computer will never notice the difference, but you probably will. But laptops are not the only computers to gain: any rugged environment, or any place you need an absolutely silent drive will benefit.
So you take your time and make the right decision. And when you do, we'll be right here, ready to help.
Highlights
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SSD Storage Technology
Acting without any moving parts, the Super Talent FTM20GK25H solid state drive (SSD) boasts multiple advanced features including zero mechanical noise, faster data rates compared to conventional HDDs, over 1-million-hour life span, ultra-low power consumption and impressive shock, vibration and extreme temperature resistance. With these breakthrough capabilities, the SSD meets all the demanding requirements for high-performance mobile computing.
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2.5" Form Factor
The Super Talent FTM20GK25H solid state drive is specifically designed for notebook computers equipped with a 2.5" SATA drive bay.
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SATA 3.0 Gb/s Interface
The Super Talent FTM20GK25H solid state drive features the next-generation SATA II interface supporting up to 3.0 Gb/s data transfer rates, Native Command Queuing (NCQ) and hot-pluggable point-to-point connections for optimum performance, efficiency, convenience and flexibility.
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Quick Specs
| Brand | SUPER TALENT |
| Capacity | 120GB |
| Device Type | Internal Solid state disk (SSD) |
| Form Factor | 2.5" |
| Interface Type | SATA II |
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Reviewed By: ai42 on 5/20/2008
Tech Level: high - Ownership: less than 1 day
