Mushkin Atlas mSATA (240GB & 480GB) Review
by Kristian Vättö on December 16, 2013 1:10 PM ESTPower Consumption
Before I get into the numbers, I'd like to remind that we use a 2.5" to mSATA adapter with a voltage regulator. Hence the numbers for mSATA drives are not accurate because the voltage regulator consumes some of the power (one of our readers calculated that the voltage regulator would consume 40-50% of the total power). Furthermore, I don't have a system with HIPM/DIPM support (it's only supported by mobile chipsets), so the idle power consumption figures should be significantly lower if the SSD is used in a laptop.
The numbers here definitely seem high but when you subtract the power consumed by the voltage regulator, the power draw should be close to Intel SSD 525 (its power consumption was measured straight from the 3.3V rail, which bypasses the voltage regulator). There are "3.3VDC" and "1.1A" ratings on Atlas' label, so based on those the maximum wattage should be 3.63W, which sounds reasonable when the voltage regulator is taken away from the equation.
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kwrzesien - Monday, December 16, 2013 - link
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Yey another sandforce drive -.-Although one interesting point comes from all this...
Sandforce is actually working on fixing trim, which is nice to hear.
Gunbuster - Monday, December 16, 2013 - link
I've got a 240GB Mushkin MSATA in my Precision M4700. Runs like a champ.jrs77 - Monday, December 16, 2013 - link
mSATA is only of interest when talking either about switching storage in your ultrabook or your thin mITX system. For everything else a standard SATA SSD is better in price/performance.And for those ultrabooks or thin-clients performance isn't the first question, but price and silent operation.
So I'd say that this drive pretty much looses on all fronts, especially vs the Cruicial M500 240GB which is available currently for $144.99.
lmcd - Monday, December 16, 2013 - link
Or when talking about the mSATA in a larger notebook as the boot drive.MrSpadge - Tuesday, December 17, 2013 - link
I disagree: outfitting a regular laptop with one mSATA baby and a 1 or 2 TB 9.5mm height 2.5" HDD could be very welcome to power users not wanting 17" laptops with 2 drive bays. But of course these mSATA drives have to be priced competitively - there's no reason for them to cost more capacity.Hrel - Monday, December 16, 2013 - link
Plextor still seems to be the way to go here. Good to see Mushkin offering a legitimate alternative, but Plextor gets my recommendation for now.whyso - Monday, December 16, 2013 - link
Pretty poor drive. The high power consumption kills it in the mobile space.