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    1TB Mushkin Reactor SSD

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by TANWare, Aug 24, 2015.

  1. TANWare

    TANWare Just This Side of Senile, I think. Super Moderator

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    Had originally a 480GB Chronos as the boot with a 750GB data drive. Now the 1TB as the primary and 480GB as the secondary drives. Wow does this fly now.
     
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    welcome to the ssd only world my friend :D

    Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk
     
    jaybee83, Aug 24, 2015
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  3. TANWare

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    It chopped a good 3 seconds just off the Samsung logo. since everything else is just about right there it is so fast too boot. I transferred a few 2 GB files at well over 430MB/s between drives, just insane compared to before.
     
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    TomJGX I HATE BGA!

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    Wow this Mushkin looks good... Might consider upgrading to it.. That price of £248 is like 60 quid cheaper then Sandisk Extreme Pro... Anyone has any ideas how it lines up against it?
     
    TomJGX, Aug 28, 2015
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    the mushkin reactor is actually a budget/entry-class drive, so cant really compare it with an extreme pro ;)

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    i want a 1 tb ssd data drive.
    im tired of hdd. already have a external case for it to get rid of it

    that 7200 or 5400 rpm number just seems like a different flavor of manure to me now. i dont care about how fast it goes its slow.
     
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    I don't know, I'm always wary of data corruption and other various factors and for that reason only, even if it is a data only drive, I would use a Micron/Crucial drive with RAIN/powerloss protection or the intel 730 SSD, until some other SSD arrives with same level of protection. I know none of the reactor drives do this, nor does the sandisk extreme pro, or the samsung 850 series.
     
    Raidriar, Aug 31, 2015
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    Which Micron or Crucial SSD's have this? Does MX200 have it?
     
    TomJGX, Sep 1, 2015
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    Mr.Koala Notebook Virtuoso

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    M5**/M600/MX*00 all do. Keep in mind the consumer level power loss protection is a far cry from server counterparts.

    And even if you have a server drive, if power goes out at the wrong time your file system can still go bad. There's no guarantee. The chance is just lower with server drives.
     
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    M500, M550, M600, MX100, and MX200 have it. BX series do not. It is basic level power protection, but the Intel 730 has full power loss protection equivalent to that of server SSDs. I would invest in any one of these models for a data drive that would hold sensitive /important information if you are replacing a mechanical drive since they have this sort of power protection + encryption capability.
     
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  11. Mr.Koala

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    If you have true sensitive info always rely on off-site backup. It's not possible for a block device to maintain logical integrity in a file system. The power loss protection in server drives is mostly for protecting recent transactions. It hardly makes a difference for protecting large amount of (sequential) data in a client system.
     
    Mr.Koala, Sep 1, 2015
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