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Mushkin has been updating infusing its product line with 3D NAND, but that’s not all they have been up to. While doing that, they have been pushing to make SSDs cheap again. Their latest offering, the Mushkin Source, is selling for as low as $28.99 for the 120GB and just $158.99 for the 1TB model! If that’s not something to …

Mushkin took advantage of CES 2018 to announce a major expansion of their product offerings in several categories: HELIX-L M.2 2280 PCIe SSD The Helix-L M.2 2280 PCIe SSD is a dram-less build that helps keep the cost in line.  It is offered in capacities ranging from 120GB to 1TB, and features a Silicon Motion SM2263XT controller to deliver sequential …

We met today with Mushkin in a suite at the MGM. One of their new items on display was the Reactor Armor3D solid-state drive. This drive features 3D MLC NAND paired with a Silicon Motion SM2258 controller.  It is available in capacities ranging from 240GB all the way up to 2TB. The Reactor Armor3D is rated for sequential read speeds …

Back in 2014 we took a good look at the Mushkin Reactor. At the time, it was the best value 1TB SSD you could buy. You could even argue that it was THE SSD which made high value, high capacity SSDs the norm. Now, Mushkin is trying to take value a step farther by introducing a cheaper alternative into the market. Instead of …

We continue our tour of CES with Mushkin, where we were introduced to a variety of flash products including gate new Mushkin ECO3, Impact USB 3.0 drives and an interesting SSD prototype. The Mushkin Eco3 is a 2.5″ form factor SSD that will include a Silicon Motion SM2256 controller, will be SATA 3.1 (6Gb/s) interface (backwards compatible with SATA Revisions …

Mushkin Enhanced MFG, a leading producer of high-performance and cost-effective solid state storage devices, is announcing its latest additions to their ATLAS family of solid state drives (SSDs), The ATLAS VITAL M.2 2280 series. These new M.2 SSDs are geared toward Ultrabooks, notebooks and small form factor PCs, and they are ideal for professionals, mobile gamers, and regular users seeking …

Great things are happening at CES and the storage world might be seeing some of the greatest advances that it has seen in a while.  Take the new Mushkin Hyperion M.2 SSD for example which, will not only reach just under 3GB/s and 350K IOPS but also, it can be had in capacities up to 1TB! Using the Phison PS5007 …

It has been quite a while since Mushkin has released a new SSD product. Our last Mushkin product review was in 2013 where we ripped apart their Scorpion Deluxe PCIe SSD which utilizes multiple SandForce controller based SSDs on a single PCIe card. Mushkin has been utilizing SandForce controllers in the majority of their SSD product line for the past few …

Mushkin Enhanced Mfg., a leading producer of high-performance digital storage products, is announcing their new REACTOR series of solid-state drives (SSDs) that feature 1TB of capacity. The REACTOR SSD is a great combination of the extreme performance benefits of an SSD and the larger 1TB capacity traditionally only found in mechanical hard drives (HDDs). The REACTOR 1TB SSD features Silicon …

Our early morning meet with Avant Technology brought forward some new designs and Mushkin hardware, however, let’s get the bad news out of the way first.  If, like we had, you are waiting for those great LSI SandForce performance numbers to be revealed in their new SF3700 flash controller design,  don’t hold your breath too long because we may just …