Super Talent MasterDrive MX 60GB SSD

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Specifications, Availability and Pricing

The specifications show that the MasterDrive MX is a 2.5-inch drive, making it perfect for nearly all notebooks on the market today. The drive also uses features found in the SATA-II specs, so Super Talent isn’t trying to cut corners to reduce costs.

It has long been known that Solid-State Drives are more resistant to vibration than traditional hard drives, so much so that the military has chosen SSD for a long time. Super Talent set out to prove just how much abuse their new MasterDrive MX can withstand. They recently placed a drive on a paint shaker and started to play a game from the same drive, while it was being shaken to levels that would destroy a standard hard drive. You can see the video here.

Of course, many Solid State Drives are capable of withstanding such abuse, but the real stand out feature of the MasterDrive MX is cost. Our 60GB sample is currently offered by Newegg for 395 U.S. Dollars. The 30GB drive can be had for 249 and the larger 120GB is only 575. These are hardly Joe Sixpack prices, but for the enthusiast market the drives are now obtainable. Since many enthusiasts have already migrated over to high performance notebooks that come from the factory with 2GB or more of memory and dual core processors, upgrading the hard drive to Solid-State is the best upgrade option available.

Last night I installed the MasterDrive MX into my Lenovo T61 and the entire hard drive swap took less than Jon Bon Jovi’s Saturday Night Live Monolog. After swapping drives, the Windows XP installation took even less time than my regular 100GB 7200 RPM drive takes on its best day.