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To sum up, if you are looking for a blisteringly fast drive that will keep up with and in some case surpass 99% of other drives out there in terms of IOPS performance and a three year warranty on top, then the G.Skill Phoenix Pro Drives are certainly worth a look.
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clunk.org.uk Updated:
2011-10-28 07:54:18
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To sum up, if you are looking for a blisteringly fast drive that will keep up with and in some case surpass 99% of other drives out there in terms of IOPS performance and a three year warranty on top, then the G.Skill Phoenix Pro Drives are certainly worth a look.
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techradar.com Updated:
2011-10-28 07:54:19
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To RAID or not to RAID. That is the question. At least, it's an increasingly interesting question with the number of smaller, more affordable solid state drives (SSDs) on the rise. The latest example of just such an SSD is the new G.Skill Phoenix Pro 4...
SandForce controller is still a peach, Great single-drive performance...
RAID 0 application performance not that impressive, Expensive compared to a conventional hard disk...
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The Phoenix Pro is a fair bit faster on PCMark Vantage application tests than the non-Pro edition, and we measured marginally lower power consumption in most workload scenarios, as well. As a result, the Phoenix Pro...
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As SSDs grow in popularity, prices are gradually dropping for higher-end drives. It is now possible to buy one of these cutting edge 120GB storage devices for well under $250. One of the companies leading this charge towards increasing value for mone...
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Close to a month ago we took a look at the powered by the fabulous SandForce SF-1200 controller and determined it to be fast, but without a desktop adapter the value was lacking for some users. Today we are looking at a nearly identical drive, but...
When it comes to 40GB SSDs, users are looking for the best SSD experience they can get for the least amount of money. Until SandForce released their 40GB configuration, you could get a low cost 40GB SSD, but the products available lacked a pleasant...
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G.Skill’s first SandForce controlled SSD hit our lab prior to Computex and SandForce’s MP2 update. With MP2 and Computex a couple of things happened. More companies were given the opportunity to use the high IOPS programming and consumer class over...
I have to admit that it is getting difficult to write these final SandForce drive reviews. We have tested several; more than anyone else and even more than I thought would ever be released. At this point we are calling it a numbers game for consumer...
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We've reviewed a range of 256GB, 120GB and 80GB solid-state drives (SSDs) in recent months, but whilst they've all impressed, we're willing to bet that the days of spending hundreds of pounds on PC upgrades are long gone for many readers. Fortunately...
G.Skill's Phoenix Pro is one of the fastest, most-affordable 40GB SSDs on the market. But whilst performance at the £80 price point is excellent, the drive faces stiff competition from a rising number of 60GB alternatives. G.Skill's own 60GB variant is...
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Solid-state drives (SSDs) equipped with the SandForce SF-1200 controller are now coming in thick and fast from almost all manufacturers who dabble with NAND storage.G.Skill's jumped on the bandwagon and, like Corsair, has released a trio of revised d...
G.Skill's top-of-the-line solid-state drives are powered by the now-popular SandForce SF-1200 controller. Available in capacities of 60GB, 120GB and 240GB, with no diminution in performance for the smaller-capacity models, performance is excellent in a...
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SSDs account for just a fraction of the storage market in terms of units shipped, but high consumer interest and significant profit margins have brought manufacturers in droves. GSkill isn't exactly a newcomer to the field, but the sheer number of comp...
High Performance, $150 price tag...
High $$/GB Ratio, 60GB offers limited install space...
The value of the 60GB Phoenix Pro shifts somewhat depending on your primary concerns. If you're looking for an SSD in the $150 price range, don't need much space, and want an SSD that doesn't compromise on performance as some of the $100 models do, then t...
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We reviewed our first SandForce-based solid state drive about a month ago and since then the SandForce drives we have checked out have either been 120 or 128GB drives. While these are nice drives many people still cannot afford them. Today we wil...
Very impressive 284MB/s read and 272MB/s write in ATTO, Best ATTO score out of all SandForce-based drives we have tested, Available in capacities up to 240GB, 3-year warranty, Included mounting bracket...
No USB Mini-B connection...
These new SandForce-based drives are really setting the standard for enthusiast solid state drives. The older drives we took a look at are really becoming budget drives and these new drives are becoming standard. These SandForce drives are really flo...
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benchmarkreviews.com Updated:
2011-09-26 10:57:03
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Solid State Drive storage devices have become the hot ticket for high-performance computer enthusiasts. Impartial towards either PC, Linux, or Apple platforms, SSDs have the power to transform slow computers into blazing-fast speed machines The SandFo...
Outstanding 286/273 MBps read/write speed with ATTO, SandForce SF1200 processor supports TRIM, SMART, and RAISE, DuraWrite technology extends NAND lifetime, Toplevel enthusiast operational I/O performance, 3Year G.Skill limited product warranty, 60/120/240GB highspeed SSD storage capacity, AES128 Automatic encryption and password data protection, Lightweight compact storage solution, R...
Does not deliver on advertised 50,000 IOPS, More expensive than other similar products, Lacks integrated USB MiniB data connection, Not 3rdGeneration SATA6.0 compliant...
Although the rating and final score mentioned in this conclusion are made to be as objective as possible, please be advised that every author perceives these factors differently at various points in time. While we each do our best to ensure that all a...
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SandForce's SF-1200 controller has more or less taken the Solid State Drive world by storm, and with good reason. SandForce-based drives provide performance that's consistently near the top of the heap, and benefits from not requiring DRAM for caching...
At the end of the day, G.Skill's drive is going to have to compete the same way most SandForce-based drives have to: on price. Overall the Phoenix Pro is neither the fastest nor slowest drive in our lineup, but as a result it doesn't draw any attentio...
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G.Skill hasn't been the most active in terms out putting out SSDs but sometimes slow and steady wins the race. Their latest is the Phoenix Pro line sporting capacities ranging from 40GB all the way up to 240GB. We had the pleasure of test driving th...
While the G.Skill Phoenix Pro 120GB SSD doesn't visibly standout from its peers, it's certainly a solid offering with performance that won't disappoint...
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Behardware.com Updated:
2011-10-28 07:54:19
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The Phoenix range is limited to 10 000 IOPS in random writes by the firmware but not the Phoenix Pros, as...
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Solid State drives are still quite expensive for most people, especially at higher capacities. The price most manufactures are shooting for is $100. This is really had to do especially with SandForce drives. Today we will be taking a look at a 4...
Impressive 286MB/s read speeds in ATTO, Included mounting bracket, 3-year warranty, Very close to that $100 price point...
Poor write speeds in our testing...
First let’s talk about the capacity of this drive, 40GB. It seemed that the 60GB capacity was going to become the smallest capacity standard for solid state drives, but all of a sudden many manufacturers were coming out with 40GB drives. The 40GB siz...
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rwlabs.com Updated:
2011-10-28 07:54:21
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Without doubt hard disk drives have dominated the market for almost 5 decades starting off with just a few megabytes and reaching capacities of several terabytes. Technology however did not stay the same through the years and so hard disk dr...
Build Quality, Blazing Fast Read/Write Speeds, Up To 50.000 IOPS, 2.5' To 3.5' Bracket Included, Native TRIM Support, DuraClass/DuraWrite/RAISE Technologies, 120GB At The Price Of 100GB...
Price (For Some)...
Although this review is more of a prelude of what’s to come at the end of the month with our quite huge SSD roundup we did manage to see the superiority of SSD drives even when compared to the latest SATA3 HDD model by Seagate. Of course...
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3dGameMan.com Updated:
2011-10-28 07:54:21
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Video Review: The G.Skill Phoenix Pro 40GB SSD is super fast and affordable. So if you are thinking about getting a SSD without breaking the bank, this would be a fantastic option. While a single drive performance is fantastic, a couple in RAID 0 is cr...
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Over the last year or so we've looked at many Solid State Drives that feature various technologies, controllers specifically, in the attempt to boost speed and performance. Some have been successful, some have not. The popular Indilinx-based SSDs have...
As we've said before and we'll continue to hammer any chance we can get, the single biggest bottleneck in modern systems is indeed the traditional plattered hard drive, and using an SSD in your system will make such a difference that you'll want to cry...
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When we looked at the the excellent performance available thanks to the drive’s innovative compression technology was tainted by what looked to have been a premature release. Because the drive controller uses on-the-fly compression of data, a larg...
We'll admit it was hugely frustrating for us when, as we were wrapping up our first SandForce coverage looking at 100GB drives, the first 120GB drives started appearing in shops claiming identical performance for the same price. As we've seen from our res...
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G.SKILL has been a major player in the DRAM and flash memory business for a long time. Recently they have added an SSD lineup to their portfolio. With Sandforce's controller being the latest rage on the SSD market it is no surprise that G.SKILL offers...
Outstanding synthetic test performance, More IOPS than other Sandforce drives, Performance improvement over many other Sandforce SSDs, Large capacity, Supports TRIM, Includes 2.5 inch bracket...
High price, Large, too much space for many, Real-life performance not as impressive as synthetic, IOPS improvement can not make a big difference...
G.SKILL offers two versions of their Phoenix SSD lineup. One normal version and one "Pro" version. The difference is that the Pro SSDs come with up to 50,000 IOPS enabled in the controller while the non-Pro is artificially limited to 20,000. As a resul...
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Here at Guru3D.com we have been evangelizing SSDs (Solid State Disk) for roughly two years now. To date it is technology that caught our attention from the get-go, and while in it's initial stages there where a few child diseases to be squashed ann...
Compared to the previously tested 100GB model we can see very little difference in terms of overall performance for the new 120GB sized Phoenix PRO. We spot really top notch performance, and that certainly does not disappoint, quite honestly ...the co...
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maximumpc.com Updated:
2011-12-01 01:49:01
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In our quest to cover the latest and greatest technology, we’re sometimes guilty of neglecting perfectly cromulent SKUs from smaller manufacturers. The Phoenix Pro series of solid-state drives is built on the same SandForce SF-1200 controller that pow...
SandForce controller reliable as ever; high random IOPS; competitive price.
Cheap enclosure.
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There was a time, early to mid 90s, when the PC gaming was under going a revolution. In fact the entire gaming industry was going through one. The Sega Genesis and Nintendo's SNES were about to retire. Everyone was looking forward to Sega's next killer co...
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