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Mushkin ECO2 60GB 2.5" Solid State Drive

( 5.0 Average / 1 Rating )

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Specifications

Manufacturer

Mushkin

Part #

MKNSSDEC60GB

Capacity

60GB

Interface

SATA 6 Gb/s

Cache

N/A

Form Factor

2.5"

GB/$1.00

1.20

Price/GB

$0.83

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Newegg Canada $49.99 $49.99+
Amazon Canada $65.98 In stock $65.98+
( 2 new from $65.98. Last updated 22 minutes ago. )
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Reviews

DuaneSand 9 points 20 months ago
from completed build ITX Desktop Power

I chose this brand, product, and capacity for its low price point, and Mushkin's reputation for great SSD engineering, and to avoid the low-price companies with bad reputations.

Mushkin has designed non-Sata SSDs with extremely high bandwidth and fast random writes. This product is not that; it is a commodity Sata-limited design. But I hope the company has applied its engineering and quality skills here too.

In the low-price SSD market, I avoid OCZ, ADATA, and companies that were unknown 2 years ago. OCZ was once a premium brand in the RAM market, but nuked itself with a series of disastrously bad SSD products. Its brand got acquired by a different company, but I don't know if their new products are reliable.

I initially planned to augment the SSD with a 1TB 2.5" hard drive, but then decided to not bother; 60GB total capacity is fine for now.

60GB was adequate for installing Windows 7 plus upgrades to SP1 (and next to Windows 10). I initially tried using just a 30GB partition, but that was not enough to support the huge patch-update downloads to get from Win7 to Win7 SP1. So 40-60GB may be the lowest practical size for the primary disk for Windows.