did anyone own a comparable muskin atlas msata drive before purchasing this?
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I have both, the plextor is a MARVELL controller and work s better on my thinkpads. The mushkin a sandy 2281 controller, the sand force controllers don't work well on lenovo for some reason. My theory is because the sandforce controls access to the data on the drive and Marvell control access to the port on the drive. On my Dells they both work as they are suppose to. They are both over 500R and 400W so thats pretty much the most important thing to look for. As for dependability, i dont do stupid things like let A/Virus or disc monitoring programs run in the background, or get them over 70% full so my SSD drive's tend to last me until i get rid of them. I have both, the plextor is a MARVELL controller and work s better on my thinkpads. The mushkin a sandy 2281 controller, the sand force controllers don't work well on lenovo for some reason. My theory is because the sandforce controls access to the data on the drive and Marvell control access to the port on the drive. On my Dells they both work as they are suppose to. They are both over 500R and 400W so thats pretty much the most important thing to look for. As for dependability, i dont do stupid things like let A/Virus or disc monitoring programs run in the background, or get them over 70%... » Read More I have both, the plextor is a MARVELL controller and work s better on my thinkpads. The mushkin a sandy 2281 controller, the sand force controllers don't work well on lenovo for some reason. My theory is because the sandforce controls access to the data on the drive and Marvell control access to the port on the drive. On my Dells they both work as they are suppose to. They are both over 500R and 400W so thats pretty much the most important thing to look for. As for dependability, i dont do stupid things like let A/Virus or disc monitoring programs run in the background, or get them over 70% full so my SSD drive's tend to last me until i get rid of them. « Show Less
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I'm not a big fan of Sandforce SSD types. And despite technical tweaks to the Muskin, there are some issues:See Tom's Hardware review:http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/msata-ssd-review,3286-5.htmlI'm really impressed with the benchmarks this plextor gives!! I'm using it in a Lenovo W530; 2x 1Tb HD's in RAID and the Plextor as C-drive to start up and for the programmes. Wonderful.
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I haven't used the Muskin drive, however both use the same controller, I believe, and therefore their performance should be similar.
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Hi William: I have so far had a good experience with the LaCie 3TB minimus (with Windows 7). It is possible I may have a review of it on Amazon. My concerns were largely issues of formatting a 3TB drive. But an official vendor's quote could be taken if you make a pdf of the Amazon page for the relevant product. I would think the same goes for any other site. And give the school a printout of the pdf. They can verify it independently as well once you have given them the pdf. If the school is bureaucratic about it get written quotes from neighbourhood computer stores. That ought to do it. Good luck!!
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I actually returned this HD. Wasn't reliable and would read on and off. I had a Mac though.I prefer the passport 2TB. Much smaller/more reliable
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I have 3 NUCs configured as follows, all work very well: D34010WYK (Haswell core i3 mSATA only): G.Skill 8GB (2x4) part #: F3-1600C9D-8GSL Mushkin 240GB mSATA SSD part #: MKNSSDAT240GB-DX Intel 802.11AC + Bluetooth Wi-Fi card part #: 7260HMW Widows 8.1 Pro 64 D54250WYKH (Haswell core i5 mSATA & 2.5" drive): G.Skill Ripjaws 16GB (2x8) part #: F3-1600C9D-16GRSL SAMSUNG 840 EVO 250GB mSATA SSD part #: MZ-MTE250BW Intel 802.11AC + Bluetooth Wi-Fi card part #: 7260HMW Western Digital Blue 1TB HDD part #: WD10JPVX Widows 8.1 Pro 64 If you want a 1.5TB HDD, HGST makes one called: Travelstar 5K1500 that fits. My Favorite: D54250WYK (Haswell Core i5 mSATA only): G.Skill Ripjaws 16GB (2x8) part #: F3-1600C9D-16GRSL SAMSUNG 840 EVO 1TB mSATA SSD part #: MZ-MTE1T0BW Intel 802.11AC + Bluetooth Wi-Fi card part #: 7260HMW Windows 7 Pro 64 Listed in the order I bought them. I am very impressed with the Samsung 840 Evo mSATA SSDs, and now that the prices have come way down, I would not go with the Mushkin Atlas again, ever. all of these have been working great.
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Thanks for the reply. I have already purchased and am using the drive with no problem. I purchased after reading on Newegg that someone had been using it with an Acer Aspire One with no problems. Tahnks again for taking the time to reply.
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Hi, I bought the 480Gb drive, it is a regular-sized mSata, just like the one you are replacing, mine I installed on a HP ENVY TouchSmart 15-j052nr Touchscreen Laptop.
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for everyone this data will be of interest: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/these are big samples, 2014 data, and the models of HGST 4TB drives are outperforming others in terms of reliability as well as price/perf
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Eyanla, I truthfully am not sure and am not familiar with what you are talking about. What I do know is that when I purchased, MyAkitio support was spectacular!!! To the point of going out and buying an identical drive to mine! If they have gone down hill... I'll be disappointed. They worked with me to the Nth degree!
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I'm pretty sure that you can replace the 128GB SSD with a larger MSATA SSD. I have not done it myself, but I opened up the laptop and saw the MSATA that's in there. I didn't see any place to put an additional internal drive.
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have had no issues...got it earlier this year....have used with both mbr disk and GPT disk....am presently running win8.1..previously ran all related versions of win8
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I bought a chinese Superdrive knockoff, and it didnt work, so I spent the extra $$ and bought the Apple USB Superdrive here on Amazon (I had to install the NI bundle this way...sucks..) It works just fine.My advice is "what is another 30 or 40 bucks after spending a small fortune on this machine??" lol
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I have actually returned this drive. It works ok on my computer without problem. I instead keep ADATA UE700 64GB and Lexar Triton 64GB.
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I have been using it with OS X Mount Lion since the OS came out with no issues. I have had no overheating issues, and although I don't use the WD software that is included I wouldn't object to it for any reason. Just format, load, and go...very easy.
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Mine also has Liteon msata. I wonder why there are 2 different ssd in this model.
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Strange. When it came in, I found the drive as being alone and empty. I partitionned it in three separate parts for work purposes, but it's supposed to be here! You should contact MSI!
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I did exactly this, without problems. The drives weren't even the same, one was 2 years old and full of data and the other one new.
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I didn't find any security software on the drive and didn't have any problems copying any data to the drive. if you are having problems transferring data to the drive I suggest contacting Mushkin.