Mushkin Atlas mSATA (240GB & 480GB) Review
by Kristian Vättö on December 16, 2013 1:10 PM ESTPerformance vs. Transfer Size
ATTO is a useful tool for quickly benchmarking performance across various transfer sizes. You can get the complete data set in Bench. The 480GB model is again a bit slower than the 240GB one and write performance especially is noticeably lower. For example at IO size of 4KB, the 240GB model is about 150MB/s faster, which is significant. Even at higher IO sizes the 480GB Atlas isn't able to make up the difference.
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Death666Angel - Wednesday, December 18, 2013 - link
"I'd love to drop in a 120/250GB SSD and use it for the OS drive" -> Does your BIOS/UEFI even support that? I've often read that SSDs that are designed as caches in laptops are on artificially limited connectors.Death666Angel - Wednesday, December 18, 2013 - link
The only scenario for me to buy an mSATA SSD is to upgrade my Samsung XE700T1C which has a 128GB Samsung mSATA (830 variety I think). Upgrading to 240GB would be too small a step to justify the effort, so I'd just go with 480GB. And there, the M500 from Crucial retails for 250€ whereas the Atlas goes for 370€. Once Samsung enters the fray for good, I think they can undercut both. So I pass the Atlas offering. The 240GB offering is more price competitive, but it is still 15€ more expansive than the M500.As for "you don't really need any peripherals with an mSATA drive.", I'd like to get a small mSATA->USB case with the drive or at least the option for a kit that is 10€ more expansive.
chadwilson - Wednesday, December 18, 2013 - link
You lost me at Sandforce.cjs150 - Thursday, December 19, 2013 - link
Outside of mobile use, the one application that msata excels at would be for a very small HTPC. Take intels latest NUC, attach a 240 Gb msata and (if you need) an internal blu ray drive, preferably in a fanless case, and you have a great HTPC systemTamaraJKent - Tuesday, December 24, 2013 - link
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