Mach Xtreme MX-DS Turbo 120GB SSD Review

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell December 27, 2011 Featured Announcement, SSD Drives

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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9 comments

sd34
December 27, 2011 at 10:21 am

Slightly disappointing as the result show. never heard of the company either.
nathan d
December 27, 2011 at 10:23 am

Fair review. I have to admit ive been looking outside the ‘sandforce’ masses of drives currently available as I would prefer to get good performance with both forms of data, rather than just compressible. Samsung new series of drives appeals to me.
Phil Robins
January 2, 2012 at 11:37 am

Also available at http://www.futurestorage.co.uk – Mach Xtreme are a great company to deal with and is great to see European companies producing drives in these tough financial days.