VisionTek 240GB mSATA SATA III Internal Solid State Drive - 900612

I ordered this mSATA SSD to replace the SSD in my new Dell XPS13 Ultrabook. It has performed fast and flawlessly for the 6 months that I have had it in use. This still seems to be the available SSD of this size in mSATA format (Samsung makes one but will not sell it direct to consumers). Note: I understand SSDs at great depth - I previously contracted with 3 SSD manufacturers to write Windows Storport drivers for them (and a BIOS bootrom for one). SSDs begin to suffer from accelerated flash wear and slower performance (dropping response time by 20x is serious) when they are kept too full (even though the manufacturers over-provision somewhat). The SSD flash manager then has to move things around to get free pages, with excessive erases and the SSD slows horribly (a page of MLC flash has about ~5K erases before it starts to fail). The rule is to never allow your SSD to be more than 50% full (Dell marketing does not understand SSDs and does not provide for an SSD of this capacity in their Ultrabooks).

It even had less overhead than my 128GB drive. The only problem I had was it was causing an error with the Intel Rapid Start Technology. It still worked. I just had to close the error window when I went to the Desktop.

Installed in me dell inspiron laptopGot some improvement in speed but likely will need to install my OS on the drive to get the best speed

Needed more disk space in my Dell Precision Workstation M6700. This item is a good medium between throughput and space.

Wow !! My new NUC now starts Windows 7 in 5 seconds. Faster than the best smartphone till date :) All credit goes to this SSD drive.

Arrived on a timely manner and works just like it should

I like that its manufacturer isnt known for SSDs but still turns out to be good. I would have loved getting visiontek memory too but they were much more expensive than what i got from silicon power and patriot.

Really satisfied with this SSD. I'm using it as a boot drive in a Thinkpad T420s, which allows for a SATA2 interface link. I get a whopping 250MB/s transfer rate with ATTO Disk Benchmark. On the 60GB I have set a 32GB partition for system and the rest for daily used data. I have kept the internal 320GB 2.5" mechanical HDD to use as a long term storage. For the price of 33$CAD I paid, the 60GB is a great deal, while making my laptop boot in less than 30 second. :)

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