Mach Xtreme MX-DS Turbo 120GB SSD Review

The drive arrives in a box featuring the product name and capacity on the front, with a little artwork in the top right corner.

Inside are some screws, a 2.5″ to 3.5″ adapter with a ‘hand tested' sticker.

The drive casing is metal, and feels very strong. There are stickers on both the front and back of the chassis.

Mach Xtreme are using 16 Micron branded flash chips with 8GB capacity each (29F64G08CBAAB), paired up with the SF2281VB1-SDC controller. These are produced on the 25 nm engineering process.

The Sandforce 2281 controller can access eight separate NAND channels, and two NAND modules are placed on each channel. The drive uses the DuraWrite algorithm which delivers on the fly compression for improved overall performance. Mach Xtreme rate this particular 120GB drive capable of delivering sequential transfer speeds of 540MB/s read | 490MB/s Write.

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