Introduction

Solid State Drives have been out for a little while now, but still are not affordable enough to make your primary storage solution, especially since SATA drives are extremely cheap now. The main application we have seen them in has been notebooks. Well today we will be taking a look at a 32GB solid state drive from Crucial and a storage kit that will allow you to swap the drive and easily take it with you. Let's see if this is the perfect SSD combination for you!

Solid State Drive Specifications

Form factor: 2.5-inch industry-standard metal housing
Dimensions: 100.2mm (l) x 69.85mm (w) x 9.5mm(h)
Weight: 82g
Available capacities: 32GB and 64GB
Host interface: Serial ATA (SATA)
Host data transfer rate: 3Gb/s (backwards compatible with 1.5Gb/s)
Read/write speeds: 32GB: up to 100MB/s (read), 60MB/s (write); 64GB: up to 100MB/s (read), 35MB/s (write)
IOPS (inputs/outputs per second): 80K sequential read IOPS for a 512-byte transfer
Shock: 1,500G/0.5msec
Vibration: 20G (20-2000HZ)
Temperature: Operating (0C to 70C); Non-operating (-40 to 85C)
Acoustics: 0dB
MTBF (mean time between failures): > 1 million hours
Endurance: Static & Dynamic wear-leveling with 6-bit ECC error correction
Crucial Warranty: 5 years

Drive Storage Kit Contents

- 2.5-inch USB 2.0 external enclosure
- 3.5-inch hot swappable SATA drive bay
- 5.25-inch bracket
- USB cable
- SATA cable
- Power cable adapter
- Screw packets
- Protective carrying case
- User guide

Packaging

The SSD drive comes in a clamshell packing typical of what you would expect on a flash drive. The drive storage kit comes in a very attractive box that tells you all about what it does.

Opening up the drive storage kit box everything inside is nicely packaged. Inside we find the 2.5-inch enclosure, 3.5-inch hot swappable drive bay, 5.25-inch bracket, USB cable, SATA cable, power cable, mounting screws, carrying case, and user guide.