Mushkin SSD - any good?

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i'm thinking of picking up this (click me!) Mushkin Chronos G2 SSD as the system drive for my Win8.1 gaming box. all my games (Steam) are on a separate HDD. i'm a casual gamer so i won't be moving any games to the SSD.

anyways, i can't find many reviews of the G2 online. has anyone used them? has Mushkin generally made good stuff or not really? i've never used any Mushkin stuff, but i did hear about them years ago for RAM sticks.

(i could spend $15 more for an Adata SX900, or $5 less for a Kingston V300 which i don't want to touch)
 
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I've been looking hardcore at the new Eco SSDs ffrom Mushkin. I love the name. I know their RAM is awesome. From what I'm finding online about Mushkin SSDs in general is pretty positive. Plus you gotta remember, you usually don't hear anything unless something is wrong, which means there are probably tons of them out there running awesomely still. My only problem is that for like 20$ more I can get an intel, I all ready have 1 intel SSD and it's a trooper. From what I'm seeing though, Mushkin is the budget way to go. I would look at MTBF and IOPS when comparing them, cause you're rarely transferring large files all the time where you would need sequential read/write.
 
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That was on a ShellShocker deal recently and I picked one up for my media PC (for the OS). The performance has been excellent, it benchmarked very close to the specs. Only time will tell how it holds up.

I have two Corsair SSD in my Desktop, that have held up well, and both have excellent performance as well.
 
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that is tempting but for the price of shipping, i can buy canadacomputers' direct replacement warranty which'll give me an on-the-spot swap in case the Chronos barfs - or i can just pocked the change. i hate paying for shipping 😛

but if that ECO is similar in quality to the Chronos G2, then that'll be worth a shot (the G2 locally). so far i've had corsair, adata, and silicon power in my own systems, and samsung / sandisk / kingston in other systems at the office. only the corsair and adata gave me headaches, but i'm thinking it may have been the mobo i was using them with at the time since both have been perfect in new systems.
 
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i bought the Mushkin Chronos G2 120GB drive today, and did a CrystalDisk test on it. hmm. i'm not thrilled. actually somewhat disappointed especially in the 4K random read/write performance. it only managed 16MB/s read and 35MB/s write. if it would hit 25/75 then i'd be ok with it, but this seems kinda low... heck, the Silicon Power S70 that i had to liberate did those numbers (but the S70 is going into a laptop).

it's still faster than a normal hard drive, but i'm wondering if i should exchange it for something else (or return it and wait for something else to go on sale)
 
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final word is - i decided to keep the G2. the random 4k performance isn't stellar, but it's not far off from my other drives (and it's still 30 to 50 times faster than a normal hard drive). sequential and 512k is great so for the price, it's A-OK.

my only regret is not grabbing an OCZ Arc100 last week when it was on sale. i'm almost getting tired of all these SF-controller-SSDs i have floating around.

oh, and one more thing:

a Mushkin tech guy told me that the ECO and G2 are similar but the ECO is priced lower whereas the G2 has faster NAND chips. in case anyone is interested.
 
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