Wednesday, May 22nd 2019
Mushkin Announces Availability of Helix-L NVMe SSD
Mushkin Enhanced MFG - An industry-leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance and high-reliability computer products, is excited to announce global availability of its much-anticipated Helix-L PCIe m.2 SSD (Solid State Drive) originally announced at CES 2019 and has available capacities of 250 GB, 500 GB, and 1 TB.
Built using the latest Silicon Motion SM2263XT PCIe Gen 3 x 4 NVMe controller to generate super-fast sequential Read and Write speeds. The Helix-L offers extreme storage performance and capacities in a M.2 2280 form factor, fitting directly into a motherboard or notebook. Employing the ultra-high-speed PCIe Gen3 x4 M.2 interface for maximum bandwidth, the Helix-L leaves traditional SATA III and even previous generation M.2 SSDs in the rearview. Loading everything from large video and image files to games, applications or the operating system faster than ever before.
"Mushkin fully embraces the adoption of PCIe NVMe SSD technology in gaming, professional, and embedded vertical market environments", said Brian Flood, Director of Product Development at Mushkin Enhanced MFG. "We believe that with features like HMB, capacities up to 1TB and the aggressive price point of the Helix-L our customers in these market segments will find our Helix-L to be a very attractive offering."
For more information, visit the product page.
Built using the latest Silicon Motion SM2263XT PCIe Gen 3 x 4 NVMe controller to generate super-fast sequential Read and Write speeds. The Helix-L offers extreme storage performance and capacities in a M.2 2280 form factor, fitting directly into a motherboard or notebook. Employing the ultra-high-speed PCIe Gen3 x4 M.2 interface for maximum bandwidth, the Helix-L leaves traditional SATA III and even previous generation M.2 SSDs in the rearview. Loading everything from large video and image files to games, applications or the operating system faster than ever before.
For more information, visit the product page.
12 Comments on Mushkin Announces Availability of Helix-L NVMe SSD
For those interested, it seems to be up to 2110MB/s read and 1700MB/s write and 240k IOPS read and 260k IOPS write. So a not very super-fast at all SSD...
I expect the Mushkin to be priced very competitively as they have done previously.
There really is NO comparision, so lets just face facts: nvme rulz, sata droolz, just deal with it :laugh:
And also, 2100/1700mbs is nothing to howl about for a so-called NEW nvme drive (especially compared to Sammy Evo's & WD Black's at 3500/3200)......sure they are cheap, but that's their only real claim to fame....
Being serious, NVMe based drives vary wildly as you can see. Disparaging a drive who's intent was to be inexpensive and not bleeding edge fast makes one look like they don't get the point here. I mean you pegged its claim to fame, but not without dropping a quick poo on it first, LOL!
"Cheap is as cheap does"
"You only get what you pay for"
"If it's cheap, it's probably a heap"
'nuff said :toast:
And yes, I understand the market, where there will always be low/mid/high-end products, but lets face it, the low-end is already so crowded, why waste time & money on developing yet another el-cheapo drive which will not yield them very much profit (only mere sales volume) and probably get buried in the sea of other el-cheapo's.
Why not invest in and/or develop a newer, faster, better drive that beats the crap out of everyone else's drives and raise the bar on speeds and reliability.... and make everyone else play catch up. Mushkin is not exactly a newcomer to the computer parts industry, by now they should know how the game is played.....
Because that market is smaller and even more crowded??
The point is, these drives are made to be cheap, not be a class leader. Why Mushkin doesn't have a drive like that, who knows (and frankly, who cares)... but it shouldn't be held against them, making an affordable NVMe based drive that is notably faster than SATA speeds and a lot closer to SATA pricing. In other words, I believe the vitriol is misplaced. ;)
We reviewed this drive in January as they gave us a sample at ces. :)
www.overclockers.com/mushkin-helix-l-1tb-m-2-nvme-ssd-review/
It looks like they may have tweaked things on the firmware as listed speeds from then has gone up (will need to edit the article shortly)