Mushkin Chronos Deluxe 120GB & Chronos 240GB SSD Review

It doesn’t matter how good any of the synthetic suites are, the real meat of the testing has to be under absolute real world conditions. This proves difficult as to record results we have to narrow down fluctuation. Therefore while we would say these are the most useful results to get from this review, there is always going to be a slight margin for error – its not absolutely scientific.

Firstly we installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit Edition onto each of the drives and performed a clean update from Microsoft with all patches and security fixes. We then install a basic suite of software, such as Office, Firefox and Adobe Design, then we install AVG free antivirus. We used a digital watch for this startup and repeated the test five times for each drive – once we had these five results we averaged the results and took that for the final figure.

The Mushkin Chronos Deluxe 120GB scored 22 seconds, alongside the Patriot Wildfire 120GB, which is a great result. The larger 240GB drive was a repeatable 1 second slower, scoring 23 seconds.

The Mushkin Chronos 240GB completed the load in 19 seconds, which was a second slower than the smaller Deluxe version, which took 18 seconds. Hard to tell the difference in the real world, but repeatable results in our labs.

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