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Crucial (Micron) Solid State Drives

By jperlow July 25, 2008, 6:44 AM PDT

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Crucial (Micron) Solid State Drives

Crucial (Micron) Solid State Drives and Mounting Kit.

Crucial (Micron) Solid State Drives and Mounting Kit.

The 32GB model of Crucial SSD sells for $499 and the 64GB for $899. The 2.5″ mounting kit and removable USB caddy is $29.00

Crucial (Micron) Solid State Drives

Crucial (Micron) Solid State Drives

Crucial (Micron) Solid State Drives

A 2.5″ 32GB SSD in the packaging.

Crucial (Micron) Solid State Drives

Crucial (Micron) Solid State Drive Mounting Kit

Crucial (Micron) Solid State Drive Mounting Kit

The internal mounting kit will fit in a standard 3.5″ drive bay. A 5.25″ outer shell is included as well.

Crucial (Micron) Solid State Drives

Crucial (Micron) Solid State Drives Mounting Kit

Crucial (Micron) Solid State Drives Mounting Kit

The rear end of the mounting kit. It uses standard SATA I/O cabling and uses a standard micro power connector for floppy type devices. Molex Y-splitters are included with the kit.

Crucial (Micron) Solid State Drives

Crucial (Micron) Solid State Drive Removable Caddy

Crucial (Micron) Solid State Drive Removable Caddy

The caddy is small and is designed to slide into the drive bay, as well as hook up with as standard micro-USB cable as a regular USB storage device.

Crucial (Micron) Solid State Drives

Crucial (Micron) Solid State Drives Caddy Sliding into Casing

Crucial (Micron) Solid State Drives Caddy Sliding into Casing

The removable caddy slides into the PC case mount.

Crucial (Micron) Solid State Drives

Crucial (Micron) Solid State Drives

Crucial (Micron) Solid State Drives

I also mounted twin SSD’s internally with no mounting kit. These were cabled using standard SATA2 drive and power connections.

Crucial (Micron) Solid State Drives

Crucial (Micron) Solid State Drives BIOS Configuration

Crucial (Micron) Solid State Drives BIOS Configuration

Here’s how the 3 SSD’s show up in BIOS.

Crucial (Micron) Solid State Drives

Crucial (Micron) Solid State Drives in Linux

Crucial (Micron) Solid State Drives in Linux

For the purposes of my SSD tests, I decided to build an SSD-only PC using Ubuntu 8.04 hardy heron. The SSDs are recognized just like 32GB hard disks, no other special software or procedures are required. Performance is comparable to a regular SATA2 hard disk, with far less power consumption.

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