- SATA I / II
- Sequential read/write: 250 MB/sec and 200 MB/sec
- Random read/write: 130MB/sec and 95 MB/sec
- Ultra-durable metal casing, Low power consumption (5 V, 200 mA); Access time: 0.1 ms; MTBF: 1,300,000 hrs+
- Includes one year manufacturer’s warranty
The Cavalry Pelican Elite Internal solid state drive is the superlative replacement for your standard 2.5 inch hard disk drive, delivering silent operation and the greatly enhanced durability, performance and power efficiency of solid state technology. With no moving parts, the Pelican does not need to spin up to write or seek files like a conventional hard disk drive, delivering considerable increases in performance while greatly reducing the risk of mechanical failure. Inside thin and light and ultraportable laptops, this incredible drive simultaneously extends your battery life, increases computing performance and insures the safety of your data, all the while operating in complete silence. The elite Pelican series offers greater performance than the normal Pelican models. See features and specs for details…. More >>
I wanted a drive that could be plugged in 24-7 with low power consumtion and no moving parts to break down. Since I intended to use it to record satillite programming, I needed a drive fast enough using USB2 (using a drive enclosure)to record HD quality that I could later burn to DVD on my PC. Standard USB thumb drives simply are NOT fast enough reading or writing to maintain the demanding HD MB per second required for stable “no tearing” picture.
Adding this drive to a laptop as a second DATA drive would be great BUT I caution a person that makes this a main “bootable” drive because as fast as this drive is–it still is slower the a disk based drive. Everything depends on the application you have in mind. Remember, always research!!!!
I’ve always heard about hard drives going bad but this was the first time I experienced it. First, several apps starting crashing which is when I figured some sectors were going bad. Sure enough a few hours later, kernel panic. It then wouldn’t start up. Bummer. I love the SSD. They truly are worth it for the speed.
I bought this drive to replace the hard drive in my VAIO laptop, and I couldn’t be happier. My computer boots up SO much faster, and access times are noticeably cut down. It’s like going from a 56.6k modem to DSL!
The drive is light but feels very solid. It also doesn’t spin like my old hard drive did when I read files, so there’s no noise, and I think that helps my laptop’s battery life too.
Get this SSD! Cavalry made a great product here, no complaints here.
i purchased this and a caxe37500 to upgrade my laptop. i figured 128gb would be enough to run my OS and some other key programs. i must say that i’m VERY happy with my purchase. the ssd cuts my boot times by more than 1/2 and although i haven’t tested an SLC ssd, i’m quite confident this product would measure up any day. despite the price being so high compared to traditional notebook drives, i couldn’t resist buying. i’ve been reading so much about ssds and i thought, what the heck, i’m paying for better performance, no noise, lower heat, and lower power consumption. thanks to amazon for the fast shipping and great packaging.
this is very good drive. I ran this drive under vista with optimizations, but it runs better under XP(without page file and no optimizing). This is on an Asus N10 Netbook. The real random access transfer rate is about 18mb/sec. this is less than what is stated, but still very good.
Vista Timings
HDD win startup 48 sec
hibernation startup 51 sec
Ssd
win startup 45 sec
hibernation startup 52 sec
XP
win startup 20 sec
apps installed
win startup 32 sec
hibernation startup 95 sec