G.SKILL Phoenix Pro Series FM-25S2S-120GBP2 2.5" MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

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Awsomeness Had to rma the first 1, no biggie. I had alot of possibilities till the new a single got her wasted all of 45 min. I previosly wrote a assessment exactly where the windows experience rateing on Windows 7, 64 bit utimate was rated at 7.7. Nevertheless, I changed my OC back to a four.6Gig I7 with 1600mhz ram and the disck rating altered to a 7.8. So preserve in thoughts that these drives are topic to your other hardware in the speeds you will acheive. When I altered back to a 4.6 I7 oc my processor and ram went to a 7.8 rating as did the drive. so maintain that in thoughts if you are looking for insane speeds but do not have the processor and ram to back it. Also the X58 chipset can not suprpass 600mbs total by way of put so having two of these and other drives may well lead to a bottle neck if you do max the by means of put. Just wanted to let folks know I hope that someone finds this helpfull.

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Incredibly rapid, really trustworthy, no efficiency degradation more than time. Draws much less power than a 7200 RPM drive. Recognized promptly on my Macbook Pro and went straight to work. Cost, but it's absolutely a fantastic value for what you get. Sandforce SSDs are some of the greatest you can get for Mac since garbage collection is internal.

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The controller is incredibly fast but I don't see a considerable difference between the Sandforce controller and the Intel-X25M's controller. They are each very quickly. I purchased the X25-M 120GB for my girlfriend and I am using this G.Skill mainly because I heard that it is kinda hard to install and properly setup this SSD. Initially I could not make this SSD to function under SATA mode. But after upgrading the firmware, I was able to make it perform under SATA mode.If you ever get some message like "Could not find MBR" or some thing like this, check your BIOS settings. It's not a challenge of this SSD. It is a issue of you. Will need Skill to Install I saw a lot of individuals commenting B*S* about this SSD and gave themselves extremely high tech information. I just couldn't recognize them. If you don't know SSD, don't get it. G.SKILL is rock solid.

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Best, super rapidly, not as advertised but nonetheless really quickly, each application is a snap, HURRAAAA!!!! They actually deserve a superior review from me!!! Adore it. Absolutely nothing, so far, ideal finish, connector is perfectly align, no concerns with the case or connector. Mirror my original HD with Carbon Copy mac, almost everything is operating just quick, no problems, even by itself the Mac OSX is able to recognize it without any difficulty.

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Got it on sale thats about it for the moment. Unable to properly mount this SSD to my antec p182 case. Whatever mount it came with was completely useless for this case. Non-normal HD screw holes so I couldnt use the screws that was made for this case although it works perfectly fine for my normal hd. Even if the screw hole did fit, I would be only able to tighten only two front screws since the back back wouldnt be able to reach the other screw holes. Remedy? double side tape on the mount and slap it on somewhere.. seriously guys, spending a frustration hour just to install a HD? Thats horrible Manufacturer Response:.Dear ClientWe are sorry to hear you are having difficulties mounting this SSD. The screws supplied are to be utilised to mount the SSD onto the mounting bracket. Then using the holes on your desktop chassis, mount the bracket with the screws supplied. There are correct screw total, so 4 to mount the SSD and four to mount the bracket onto the chassis. You ought to not will need to use any screws or hardware from your case. If you have any further questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to contact us directly.Thank youGSKILL SUPPORTHigh quality and consumer service are our best priorities.Tech Support E-mail: ustech@gskillusa.comRMA Dept E-mail: rma@gskillusa.comG.Skill Forum: http://www.gskill.us/forum/

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This factor was working awesome .. but it was picky my operating method would just freeze for about a minute and then my personal computer BSOD, then i reformated and the issue went away. Until yesterday when it did the exact same thing. I feel like the failure rate on these drives requires to be addressed, i am extremely content with the memory I purchased from Gskill. I applied for RMA since this drive was not behaving and immediately after 3 reformats. I can only assume this drive was defective. On the bright side my personal computer could effectively boot from Sleep following firmware update 1.three Manufacturer Response:.Dear ClientThank you for your G.Skill SSD feedback. We are sorry to hear you are having such concerns. We collect all data and user feedback to boost our SSD. We function directly with Sandforce to solve any issues. Please send the SSD in for RMA, the replacement ought to perform far better. If you continue to have a dilemma, please don't hesitate to get in touch with our support department.Thank youGSKILL SUPPORTGood quality and consumer service are our best priorities.Tech Support Email: ustech@gskillusa.comRMA Dept E-mail: rma@gskillusa.comG.Skill Forum: http://www.gskill.us/forum/

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I purchased this SSD for much less that 赨 (Shell Shocker). I am utilizing it as my OS boot drive in my recently built PC. I had no troubles and really pleased with the efficiency. Windows 7 boots more rapidly, Photoshop CS4 is snappier, and games load quicker. Performance was great initially and it improved immediately after I installed Intel Rapid Storage Technology Driver 9.6..1014, enabled AHCI in bios, disabled defrag, method restore, prefetch & superfetch. It is an MLC SSD which is said to be much less dependable than a SLC SSD Rest of my PC for referrence:Intel Core i7 950P6X58D-E6GB Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600Samsung 1TB SpinpointHIS Radeon HD 6870Hyper 212+Corsair TX750Cooler Master Storm Scout

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Effortless to mount and a reasonably rapid SSD. I have 5 assorted SSD drives, and this 120 GB drive is the 1 I chose for the OS drive. An Intel Mainstream was more quickly in my benchmarks, but my drive is smaller. No Sata Cable

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These were a steal at 赛. Atto shows them clocking right at the rated speeds on both my desktop and laptop. (I put one in each and every). None so far

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Quickly!! Benchmark is consistant at 391m/sec seq read in raid . 275 write. Random seek +RW 235m/sec. none...Cost maybe? Standart 5400 = 45-55 M/secStandard 7200= about 100 m/secThese drives(if using two in raid )= 391-410m/sec

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Rapidly...quickly...quickly...actually quick. Swift boot up and shut down speed. Applications load more rapidly than ever... Essentially, it works like a charm. Biggest con: I am acquiring BSOD if I try to put my laptop to sleep with this HDD. I tried it in a distinct laptop, and still the very same effect. Due to the fact it's rapidly in booting up and shutting down, I really don't put this in sleep. But as soon as in a although I forget to do that and ends up in a BSOD. I installed the 3.two firmware update and nonetheless the exact same. Can anyone support me out in this issue? I don't want to cut down so numerous eggs just for that BSOD issue. That's why I am giving -1. Manufacturer Response:.Dear CustomerThank you for your G.Skill obtain and evaluation. We are sorry to hear you are getting a sleep issue. Please get in touch with our technical support department with your hardware specifications and they will be able to troubleshoot the dilemma. For all the latest SSD facts and updates, please check out the Official G.Skill Forum.Thank youGSKILL SUPPORTTop quality and customer service are our top priorities.Tech Support E-mail: ustech@gskillusa.comRMA Dept E-mail: rma@gskillusa.comG.Skill Forum: http://www.gskill.us/forum/

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Quick SSD, when operable. Price.Died after < 90 days of ownership.Received 10ቸ񳏊.Died 01ቮ񳏋.Fully dead. Died in 79 DAYS! 100% DEAD!A complete paperweight, tried calling G-Skill and will reach back out to them, tomorrow.=====Computer just died, and would not boot. It said OS not located. removed from laptop and attached to my PC, Bios posts, attempted to recognize the device attached to the SATA PORT, but can't. Absolutely nothing.=======Will give G-Skill a opportunity to troubleshoot with me, but ultimately, I think a replacement is in order. Manufacturer Response:.Dear ConsumerWe sincerely apologize for this dilemma. It is odd that the drive can not be detected at all. Please send the SSD in for RMA and replacement ought to work significantly superior. All G.Skill Phoenix Series are covered by a 3 year warranty, so if the drive becomes defective inside this time frame, we can often have it replaced. Hopefully this is a one time difficulty. If you have any further questions or troubles, please feel free to contact us directly.Thank youGSKILL SUPPORTGood quality and customer service are our top priorities.Tech Support E-mail: ustech@gskillusa.comRMA Dept Email: rma@gskillusa.comG.Skill Forum: http://www.gskill.us/forum/

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Drives are quick and stable on the most recent firmware, if you've got lucky ones. Out of three drives, one was DOA. I had one more that was really flaky on initially boot (hotplugging SATA power would get the drive to come on and recognize). The DOA was RMA'ed with Newegg with no issue. Wish I had gone the identical route with the other one. It's been in G.Skill's hands waiting for a replacement given that December 3rd. Nonetheless waiting. Assistance is horrible. With a 66% failure rate for me, I'm leery about putting anything important on these drives. I've been keeping significantly greater backups these days and hoping that absolutely nothing else happens. Also hoping that G.Skill gets their "backordered" replacement drives in and Finally sends me one. Here's a hint G.Skill... Newegg has them in stock. Order 1 and ship it to me! Manufacturer Response:.Dear ClientWe sincerely apologize about this difficulty. The replacement ought to have the newest firmware, so you should have no troubles. All G.Skill Phoenix Series SSDs are backed by a three year warranty for these kinds of situations. If for whatever cause your drive becomes defective soon after a couple days, weeks, or years of use, we will exchange it with a new replacement without question. If you have any further questions or concerns, please really feel cost-free to contact us directly and we will be able to help you.Thank youGSKILL SupportHigh quality and client service are our best priorities.Tech Support E-mail: ustech@gskillusa.comRMA Dept Email: rma@gskillusa.comG.Skill Forum: http://www.gskill.us/forum/

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It's truly very rapidly. I was amazed at the speed. Got the BSOD soon after only about two hours and only ordering a pizza on-line. Then on restart when it attempted to CheckDisk it could not, said some thing about unable to access. Then Windows would no longer shutdown, just sat on shutdown screen for hours various instances. At this point the program was still somewhat functional but surely a challenging shutdown everytime is not practical nor healthy for the program. The tech is just now getting inexpensive and therefore a lot of cost cutting design. The reliability of SSDs appears to be questionable at the moment because it seems practically universally folks have had quite a few troubles that you hardly ever face with a traditional HDD; BSOD, DOA/Undetected, OS errors.Also the 3.five adapter is a little brief, it fit width wise, but only two of the four pins on the mounting brackets could be utilized so it kind of just swivels and rest on the HDD below it, no biggie I guess.I also feel it is in fact smaller than a traditional two.five mainly because it wasn't even close in the two.five floppy bay which i don't use (who still utilizes a floppy?)Of course my other 2.five has a nice card reader i installed.I hope the replacement isn't faulty too. Manufacturer Response:.Dear CustomerWe apologize for the incovenience. We are sorry to hear you are getting complications with the drive. Despite the fact that SSD technologies is still fresh, this drive should nonetheless be stable. Please send the SSD in for RMA and the replacement need to work significantly far better. All G.Skill Phoenix Series SSDs are backed by a 3 year warranty. Ought to the SSD become defective within this time frame, we can exchange it with a new one. If you have any further questions or issues, please don't hesitate to get in touch with us directly.Thank youGSKILL AssistanceTop quality and consumer service are our best priorities.Tech Support E-mail: ustech@gskillusa.comRMA Dept E-mail: rma@gskillusa.comG.Skill Forum: http://www.gskill.us/forum/

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Incredibly quick! Boot time on my Macbook pro ( 2009 13'') was cut in half! extremely great deal from newegg ( 赔 shipped) ok mac users... here is where you listen up... you CAN NOT do a fresh install of OS X on this drive. you have to use carbon copy or clone tool to put the image of your drive onto the SSD. Then right after that clear your PRAM and the macbook will FLY. fantastic price and great speed. wouldn't purchase it once again, but would buy it if it didn't demand so significantly perform for a basic drive installation. Manufacturer Response:.Dear ClientThank you for your G.Skill buy and assessment. We apologize for the additional procedures essential for Apple computers. Hopefully in the near future this will not be necessary. Here is the guide for Apple users:http://www.gskill.us/forum/showthread.php?t򖦬For all the newest SSD updates and information, it will be posted on the Official G.Skill Forum. Please feel free of charge to join our on the web discussion. There are numerous users and details that can aid with any issues you could have.Thank youGSKILL SUPPORTTop quality and consumer service are our top priorities.Tech Support Email: ustech@gskillusa.comRMA Dept Email: rma@gskillusa.comG.Skill Forum: http://www.gskill.us/forum/

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No pros for a item that doesnt work. Uhhhhh, it didn't work. It could not be recognized on any of the three machines I tried it on. The manual provided on the web page was generated by a poor knock-off version of Google translator or by a second grader out of kentucky. Why is it rated so extremely if so many people are having these problems? The technical support is non existant. Manufacturer Response:.Dear ConsumerWe apologize for the inconvenience. Please send the drive in for a new replacement and that really should function far better. The SSD should be able to detect in BIOS, set it to AHCI mode (if your method supports it), install Windows, and you're ready to go.if you need to have any help, please really feel totally free to contact our support department directly or check out the Official G.Skill Forum.Thank youGSKILL SUPPORTGood quality and customer service are our leading priorities.Tech Support Email: ustech@gskillusa.comRMA Dept E-mail: rma@gskillusa.comG.Skill Forum: http://www.gskill.us/forum/

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I have to admit that I was worried about receiving a DOA/defective drive due to some of the early critiques. On the other hand, given the drive's low cost I expected QA to be lower than "premium" manufactures.I took the leap, and the drive performs precisely as advertised!Not a lot else to say definitely, I've been abusing this factor with lots of games which includes the Minecraft alpha, which is a total resource hog, and haven't experienced any difficulties. None. Not the most attractive drive, but I'm not a "disco case" individual. This drive is the ideal size for housing Windows 7, regular programs, and Globe of Warcraft (which for me presently weighs in at 25 GB). With all that installed I nonetheless have ㅪ GB totally free space.I run two standard 1 TB HDDs in RAID 1 for media storage and so on. It's a great setup - All the speed of a SSD and sufficient (slower) storage for massive files. Plus this puts all my compressed information on regular HDDs, which is a good situation as apparently you don't want to be writing lots of compressed data to any Sandforce 1200-based SSD - It will trigger them to slow their throughput over time.

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I purchased this to replace the drive in a Lenovo S10e netbook. This Drive installed with no issues on Linux Mint Debian. Boot was quickly ahead of, so only a small improvement in boot performance was observed. Battery life has enhanced a bit as effectively. None Manufacturer Response:.Dear ConsumerThank you for your G.Skill invest in and evaluation. Please make certain you allow AHCI mode in BIOS for SATA mode. This is the optimal configuration for SSDs; without this setting, the performance may possibly be limited. Glad to hear the drive is working well. If you have any questions or concerns in the future, please really feel free of charge to make contact with us directly.Thank youGSKILL SUPPORTGood quality and consumer service are our top priorities.Tech Support E-mail: ustech@gskillusa.comRMA Dept Email: rma@gskillusa.comG.Skill Forum: http://www.gskill.us/forum/

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rapidly not as fast as claimed from time to time. on the suggested by G.SKILL atto benchmark ƒ.46) I got 265 megs read and 253 megs write.but on crystal I got 211megs read and 85 megs write. so since they claim they utilized atto, it is what they claim.and it _IS_ quick. crazy rapidly compared to my 7200 rpm 500 gig 2.5 mechanical drive. 鲤 megs write and 97 megs read max, crystal disk mark sees it as 91 & 85 btw) Manufacturer Response:.Dear CustomerThank you for your G.Skill purchase and review. Glad to hear your SSD is performing nicely. For maximum performance, make positive you have the latest AHCI driver and Intel RST driver for your system. As far as benchmarks, distinct programs will display diverse outcomes. In our opinion, the ATTO Disk Benchmark test is the most accurate, so that is what we suggest to use. If you have any further questions or issues, please don't hesitate to make contact with us directly.Thank youGSKILL SUPPORTQuality and consumer service are our best priorities.Tech Support E-mail: ustech@gskillusa.comRMA Dept Email: rma@gskillusa.comG.Skill Forum: http://www.gskill.us/forum/

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Rapidly Drive close sufficient to as advertised. Own the original Falcon as well and it's lasted three+ years, and this has comparable construct construction...expecting comparable high quality of life. They don't do a BOGO deal to make afforadble Raid greatness. I did have an issue that my Intel controller in RAID mode could not see the lone drive at all truly. Turned it back to AHCI and it worked just fine. Fairly certain my RAID controller got fried by a faulty PSU anyways, so not truly blaming it on the drive. Working with this drive as my ONLY drive in my gaming PC. For those "high technical" people that can't comprehend why their 120 GB drive comes in at 111 instead of close to 120, it's mainly because they are following original drive standards. The ones coming in at legit 120s are really 124-128 GB drives that are losing that in formatting, like any classic HDD. The filetable has to exist somerwhere. I tried this in multiple PC and Laptop applications that I've had access to with no problems...so "very disappointed's" posting just indicates he could want to reassess his tech competency level.

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Quite rapidly. Windows 7 has rated it 7.8 on a HighPoint 2760 raid card (not motherboard).Will fit all standard connection to motherboard ATX and power supply.S.M.A.R.T. says it 33F room is 74F. None. I will need to test it with other programs and get overall stats on this.

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I wote a evaluation some time ago and gave 5 eggs but I sure would not go over 2 eggs now, if even that. Pros? OK, 1 of the two on my method is still working for now...yeah I have two copies of this SSD, 1 for the OS and 1 for an advanced version of FSX. The FSX 1 just disappeared off the system and can not be observed by BIOS or Windows 7. It will take an huge amount of work to reinstall every little thing back on a different drive. The reliability of these items leave a whole lot to be desired. I've just been told by their telephone tech support to RMA it (at my price) back to them and stated that I may possibly get it back a couple of weeks or far more right after they recieve it. So altogether it will be down the better portion of a month. Grrrrr! Who knows when it will even get out the door here sice they have not even answered my RMA e-mail yet. Manufacturer Response:.Dear CustomerWe sincerely apologize for the incovenience. This should in no way happen, but just like any drive with constant transfers, it can turn out to be defective. Hopefully in the future SSD technologies will be a lot additional dependable. Please send the drive in for RMA; the new one must function flawlessly. If you have any further questions or issues, please don't hesitate to contact us directly. Thank youGSKILL SUPPORTTop quality and customer service are our top priorities.Tech Support Email: ustech@gskillusa.comRMA Dept Email: rma@gskillusa.comG.Skill Forum: http://www.gskill.us/forum/

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Under Windows 7 Residence Premium, worked out of box for me and is very quickly. Even following loading up with applications, system still boots all the way in seconds on a Core i5 program. Applications and games that employed to take minutes to load now just take a few seconds. No wait computing is finally here! Was a little tough to align for hot-swap cage as the ports seem to be a little high for spec, but eventually was jimmied into location.

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Does what it's meant to do. Excellent SSD. Got it for 趐 about 2 months ago sadly. The super low access time and the great read speed makes loading points quite fast. It's much more on a gripe on Sandforce and AMD's lack of support there, but most ssd's do far better with Intel drivers or Microsoft drivers, AMD specific SATA drivers on the other hand removes the garbage or TRIM capability if running on raid. Luckily I didn't get one from the batch of defective ssd's.

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Now Windows load ridiculously fast, and same thing with all my games. Install programs in a blink of an eye. Just think of enabling AHCI mode in the bios to have optimal performance. Best upgrade for your PC right now, you should all buy SSDs !