Mushkin Launches Chronos G2 Solid State Drive Family

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Maximum transfer rate of 555MB/s

For those of you who needed another solid state drive line to consider for your next upgrade, Mushkin today added the Chronos G2 series to its family of SSDs. Part of the pitch from Mushkin is that they're designed and assembled in the U.S., while the other selling point is that the Chronos G2 line offers a high level of performance for users working with a limited budget.
"If you want the most innovative Mushkin SSD ever, you'll have to be more specific. Mushkin doesn’t only focus on launching new and innovative storage and memory solutions, we are always looking for new ways to enhance our existing products as we are doing with our value Chronos G2," said Nicolas Villalobos, Director of Global Marketing at Mushkin Inc. "A reincarnation of the legendary Chronos, the Chronos G2 Series was born to stand out from the crowd. Its competition-surpassing value give Mushkin’s Value SSD an oversized attitude."
With all that talk about value, it's a bit curious that Mushkin didn't provide any MSRPs in its press release. However, we were able to dig up some street pricing, though take it with a grain of salt -- a single vendor on Newegg (PlatinumMicro.com) is offering the new drives, and as they become more widely available, prices may change.
In any event, street pricing at the moment breaks down like this:

• Mushkin Chronos G2 60GB: $60 ($1 per gigabyte)
• Mushkin Chronos G2 120GB: $80 ($0.67 per gigabyte)
• Mushkin Chronos G2 240GB: $125 ($0.52 per gigabyte)
• Mushkin Chronos G2 480GB: $220 ($0.46 per gigabyte)

As you can see, the higher the capacity, the better the value in terms of price per gigabyte. As for performance, these drives sport a SATA 6Gbps interface and a SandForce SF-2000 series controller. Performance for each drive looks like this:

• Mushkin Chronos G2 60GB: 550MB/s read, 515MB/s write, no mention of IOPS
• Mushkin Chronos G2 120GB: 555MB/s read, 525MB/s write, no mention of IOPS
• Mushkin Chronos G2 240GB: 555MB/s read, 535MB/s write, no mention of IOPS
• Mushkin Chronos G2 480GB: 540MB/s read, 465MB/s write, 55,000 IOPS

All three drives are backed by a 3-year warranty.
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