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this is the Chronos deluxe SSD from muskan it is a SATA 3 tuna 1/2 inch SSD now comes in a box that's so big that it could be a three and a half inch SSD because remember the bigger the box that comes in the more performance it has right guys all right the Chronos SSDs series is a great leap forward using the SATA 3 protocol to provide six gigabit per second superhighway for data coupled with the solid state drives Chronos SSDs will redefine the word fastest I know I skipped every other line but you guys pretty much know what they were gonna say anyway this one in particular is the 120 gig drive although it is available in other capacities including a 240 gig drive and what is special about this particular drive well I would love to tell you that but why don't we start with the unboxing portion first so we have a two and a half to three and a half inch adaptor and I've seen this particular adapter a number of times with a number of different logos on it pretty standard adapter you got your screw holes your other more different screw holes and then you plug it into the thing alright we've got the SSD itself you've got some mounting hardware you got a couple screws that will screw into the adapter and then you've got a whole lot of foam so much ken is not taking any chances they're they're making it so you can you can put your SSD in here you can wrap it up in here and you could like throw it at the wall and you could you could be like the worst the worst courier in the world and you could kind of go like this and try to play you know hacky sack with the SSD and you're gonna pull it out of this box and there's gonna be no damage to your safe SSD with an inch of foam on every side whatsoever alright so let's pull out the SSD itself and let's talk specs for a little bit here so this is a SandForce 2281 drive which is pretty much the same controller that is being used in any SandForce SATA 3 SSD at this time but there is a difference in terms of the quality of the NAND chips that are used from one drive to another not to say that some are more reliable than others but in terms of the speed especially with random reads and writes you do get better performance out of the deluxe drive which uses toggle meant versus the regular Chronos which does not so here you can see the SSD itself is labeled www.h king calm Kronos save the three-tailed state drive on the other side we find some more information such as look at they give you a firmware revision right on the right on the drive itself most guys don't call it which firmware revision they're using but looks like they do so this is a 120 gig SATA 6 gigabits per second as I mentioned it's available in other capacities you're gonna find a very standard interface on the back here there's you say the three data there's your SATA power you're gonna have all your standard mounting holes so a lot of people have asked me to do round ups of SATA 3 drives and I will tell you guys it's kind of unnecessary because I can pretty much tell you what everything is so the Chronos deluxe I'll tell you guys what it is equivalent to its equivalent to the max I ops from OCZ and it is equivalent to the wildfire from patriot in terms of performance yes it will perform identically to either those drives so if you see a Chronos that's a good deal then go ahead and snap it up you'll know what to compare it to in terms of pricing thank you for checking out my unboxing and don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos