Mushkin TRIACTOR 480GB SSD Review

Much like quite a few other manufacturers (for example ADATA and their SP550 SSD model) for this particular line of SSDs Mushkin decided to pair the latest SM2256A NAND flash controller by Silicon Motion with 1ZNM 256Gbit TLC NAND flash by SanDisk and 256MB LPDDR DRAM by Nanya. The SM2256A controller includes a single 32-bit Argonaut RISC processor core (same as its predecessor the SM2246EN) which in turn features their NANDXtend ECC technology (LDPC & RAID5-like data recovery) and supports DevSleep (power save feature), TRIM (garbage collection), SATA v3.1, AES-256bit hardware encryption and TCG Opal 2.0. TLC may not be as good as MLC or the “premium” SLC NAND flash both in terms of performance and durability but since Mushkin states that the TRIACTOR has an MTBF of 2 million hours we’re at least “safe” in terms of longevity… at NikKTech