Mushkin Enhanced Atlas Series 120GB Mini-SATA (mSATA) MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MKNSSDAT120GB-V

Pros: Fast and cheap.

Cons: Very high failure rate. We purchased 35 of these for an NUC deployment. We've had 5 failures now in only a few months. The first failure was after 3 weeks, then two more in about 6 weeks. Now 2 more after about 2 months.

Overall Review: Mushkin has replaced failures under warranty. They've done it quickly without question. We've used plenty of their RAM in the past, so I don't say it is a bad brand. But... this model of SSD is terrible.

Pros: **THIS IS AN UPDATED (2nd) REVIEW TO MY PREVIOUS 1 EGG REVIEW** **The first SSD sent to me caused random Windows crashes 5 mins to 30 mins after boot up. After the crash, BIOS does not detect the SSD and therefor I cannot restart Windows unless I perform a full cold shutdown (by pressing the power button off entirely). **The replacement looked brand new, and was not the same one I had previously RMA'd. The new one is not crashing like the old one. I've had Windows running for 2 to 4 hours at a time. The one thing I did differently this time though was to unplug the stock 7200 RPM hard drive prior to installing Windows 7 on the SSD. I do not know if that made a difference or not. PROS: I installed Windows 7, 64-bit on my MSI laptop (model GE70 2OE-071US) and it boots up to the Windows desktop in 9 seconds vs 39 seconds for the regular 7200 RPM hard drive.

Cons: After the RMA replacement, none, other than the constant fear it might friggen die on me. 1 egg off for that.

Overall Review: Do yourself a favor and if you decide to purchase this, immediately try it out. If you experience the crashes like everyone else here, return this for an RMA before the 30 day period.

Pros: Cheapish, fast, when it works.

Cons: Bought this for an intel NUC D54250WYK as it was on intel's supported list of mSATA drives; worked fine for a month or so, then would start freezing up every few hours (ubuntu 12.04 would remount the drive read-only). Light on the LED fixed on. A hard reboot wouldn't work unless you unplugged the power cable and re-added it, then it always rebooted ok at least. Seemed to be worse in hot weather, but the drive temperature was mostly 36 - 40C so within its spec when it was failing. None of the disk tests I did reported any faults. Looks to be the same issue as another reviewer here found with an intel NUC on newegg - so reporting my experience too.

Pros: Cheap

Cons: Failed after 3 months of moderate use

Pros: Fast and Inexpensive.

Cons: Works reliably up to +40C. Above that, it fails.

Overall Review: I have an Intel NUC that has a thermal pad installed to draw heat from the mSATA board to the chassis. The mSATA was runninf at about 44C and faiedl intermittently. The fix was to remove the Muskin label and the temp went down to 36C or so which make it work reliably.

Pros: cheap, decent customer service, 3 year warranty

Cons: first one died within a few months, got a warranty replacement, that died right after I restored my backup on it.

Overall Review: The customer service on this drive has been good, but I'm 0 for 2 on their drives right now, and I'm skeptical if I'm going to find a positive solution here.

Pros: Fast

Cons: Drive failed completely after a few months

Overall Review: I was initially happy with this drive, but after a few months it failed completely. No drive should fail that quickly, and judging by the other negative reviews this is a common problem for this device. Next time I will spend a little more money and find a more reliable device

Pros: Fast if it works Installation is easy on a Sager Notebook

Cons: Appears to run hot. The drive is separated from everything and still gets very hot. Touched the bottom of my computer and feel cool but the drive marks from 60 to 69 Celsius (The regular hdd marks a cool 40 Celsius). Fails after a few hours of use. The first one didn't work well from the beginning, failed after a couple of minutes. Got a replacement and everything looked good until recently the OS started stalling again after a couple of hours of use.

Overall Review: Will not send it back because i don't want to get the same defective model.