It was in the majority recent solid state where it was suggested that drives with Sand Force controllers were the hot products on the market. While the optimized Sand Force SF-1200 series does offer extremely fast read and write speeds, there is an added SSD to consider in the quest for utmost speed.

Crucial's RealSSD C300 line now present drives with capacities of 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB, and each boasts a utmost read speed of 355MB/s. The way that Crucial is capable to present such a high speed product is by being one of the few drive producers to take advantage of SATA 6Gbps technology.

Crucial has a very attractive line of solid state drives on their hands with the RealSSD C300 series. By utilizing a controller capable of SATA 6Gbps transfers, they have in use the high speed performance predictable of SSDs and taken it to an added level.

Features

• Brand: Crucial

• Series: RealSSD C300

• Model: CTFDDAC128MAG-1G1

• Form Factor: 2.5"

• Capacity: 128GB

• Micron MLC NAND Flash

• Marvell Controller

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• SATA 6 Gb/s interface

• RAID Support

• ATA-8 w/ TRIM

• Self-monitoring, analysis, and reporting technology (SMART) command set

• Built-in EDC/ECC

• 3-year limited manufacturer's warranty on parts and labor

Details

• Max Shock Resistance: 1500G / 1.0ms

• Max Vibration Resistance: 2-500Hz at 3.1G

• Power Consumption (Active): 1.7W READ, 3.1W WRITE

• Power Consumption (Idle): 0.092W

• Sequential Access - Read: 355MB/sec (SATA 6Gb/s) / 265MB/sec (SATA 3Gb/s)

• Sequential Access - Write: 140MB/sec (SATA 6Gb/s) / 140MB/sec (SATA 3Gb/s)

• MTBF: 1,200,000 hours

• Random 4k READ: 50,000 IOPS

• Random 4k WRITE: 30,000 IOPS