For a long time now, many technology enthusiasts have been propagating the use of solid state disks or SSDS for a variety of reasons; speed and stability being the main ones. Though one might say that this technology is still in its early stages, there is enough evidence to prove that SSDs undoubtedly, speed up the working of the main operating system and the applications manifold. In fact, many suggest that the ideal combination would be to get a neat little SSD for the operating system and the main applications that you run, along with a large hard disk drive or HDD for mass storage purpose (like storing all your data, music and movies). This makes eminent sense and with this in mind we look at one of the most impressive SSD models to hit the market in a while – the G.SKILL Phoenix Pro Series FM-25S2S-120GBP2 Internal Solid State Drive.

The standout feature of this model is that it utilizes the impressive SandForce1200 based controller. This is the same as the earlier SandForce models except that this model now comes with an extra bit of storage space. All the models that have been based on the SandForce controller have shown great performances and have passed many benchmark tests with flying colors. In fact, this is where G.Skill has improved on the past models – it has managed to bring out a new model that offers very much the same powerful features as the earlier SSD models at almost the same price but with greater storage. And as you would be aware, as far as SSDs are concerned, the more GB you get for the price, the better the deal.

As we have mentioned, the SandForce based models from G.Skill have always shown great performance and every new product has shown impressive gains over the earlier models. It should be of particular interest to you as an end-user that the G.SKILL Phoenix Pro Series FM-25S2S-120GBP2 Internal Solid State Drive shows tremendous improvement when it comes to increasing the productivity on a PC. In other words, it speeds up the operating system and the applications even more than what had been anticipated, based on experience with older models.

In general, the SandForce1200 controller based SSDs have allowed applications and operating systems to work more efficiently. The G.SKILL Phoenix Pro Series FM-25S2S-120GBP2 Internal Solid State Drive, in particular, has shown that it can handle small files exceptionally well. Benchmark tests have shown that the IOPS of this drive while handling small files at random are phenomenal, particularly when you compare it with hard disk drives.



The only comment one could make about the G.SKILL Phoenix Pro 120GB Solid State Drive is that like all other SSDs, it is pricey. However, if you can afford it, you can use the G.SKILL Solid State Drive to truly get the edge, by using it as the main boot drive for your operating system, applications and games while you could store all other data such as documents, movies and music in your hard disk.
You can buy this G.SKILL Phoenix Pro Series FM-25S2S-120GBP2 Internal Solid State Drive From Evetech for only R2,299 inc VAT
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