Super Talent MasterDrive SX SAM28GM25S 128GB SSD
Jul 21st, 2009 | By SimonTo confirm that these SuperTalent drives are indeed based off the new Samsung controllers I voided my warranty and got my torx screwdriver to open the chassis. If I didn’t know I was reviewing a Super Talent SSD, I would have figured it’d be a Samsung drive as everything is etched with Samsung’s name.
We have the Samsung S3C29RBB01-YK40 N1TRPNPK ARM controller manufactured in week 29 of 2009. There’s not a whole lot of information available on this controller but do a Google search and you’ll see a fair number of other companies using it. The 128MB onboard cache is provided by a Samsung K4X1G323PD-8GC6 chip. Last but not least, the storage array is composed of Samsung K9HCGZ8U5M SCK0 CADD61X2 modules.
Here are the features and specifications taken directly from Super Talent’s website.
There’s a problem with the power consumption chart. The numbers can’t be right unless you’re measuring the power consumption of the system that hosts the drives (but then that’s not clearly stated and it’s confusing)
mitrax wrote:
Sorry for the confusion, the result listed is the power consumption for the entire PC.
why are you showing the old gskill?….
why not post the top (new) drives against new ssd reviews?
also 128gb differs greatly from 64gb as cache doubles etc…
thanks
showtime wrote:
For comparison between various types of SSD’s available, not necessarily to compare different manufacturers selling the same SSD. Those numbers will be pretty much the same, it is more interesting to compare old J.Micron vs Indilinx vs Samsung for those looking to upgrade.