Mushkin Revealing Striker Line of MLC 2.5-Inch SSDs in 240GB-960GB Capacities

Mushkin Enhanced MFG, designer and manufacturer of high-performance and mission-critical computer storage products, announced at CES 2015 its new STRIKER series of SSDs.

It is an step forward for Mushkin to offer the most well-rounded SSD lineup – producing solutions for high value, performance, and capacity.

The STRIKER SSD provides sequential read and write throughput of up to 565 and 550MB/s respectively, with random performance of up to 90,000 4K IO/s.

Launching in 240-960GB capacities, the series will be available at retail channels in Q1 2015.

“Mushkin is committed to giving our customers the best performing and most reliable SSDs and our new STRIKER family of drives delivers,” said Brian Flood, director of product management, Mushkin. “With an ever-increasing demand for greater performance, the new STRIKER drives provides the ultimate combination of speed and reliability for today’s demanding applications.”

Features of STRIKER line of SSDs include:

• Phison PS3110-S10 controller
• Quad core, 8-channel
• 256-bit AES encryption support, Opal 2.0
• End-to-End data path protection, SmartECC, SmartRefresh, SmartFlush, GuaranteedFlush
• SATA 3.0 (6Gb/s) interface (backwards compatible with SATA 3Gb/s and 1.5Gb/s)
• Top-tier performance specifications
• TRIM/SMART support (OS/driver support required)
• DEVSLP support for ultra-low power consumption
• 120-bit per 2KB ECC strength
• High-speed MLC NAND
• 2.5″ 7mm form factor
• User-upgradeable firmware