Mushkin Enhanced Reactor - possible bait & switch

[_mockingbird]

From the reviews, the Mushkin Enhanced Reactor seems like a very decent SSD.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8949/mushkin-reactor-1tb-ssd-review

The drive is the
Mushkin Enhanced Reactor 2.5" 1TB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MKNSSDRE1TB
which uses Silicon Motion SM2246EN controller and Micron 16nm MLC NAND.

It seems that Mushkin Enhanced has quietly replaced that drive with the
Mushkin Enhanced Reactor 2.5" 960GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MKNSSDRE960GB
which also uses Silicon Motion SM2246EN controller and unknown NAND.

Now, I don't imply that SSD manufacturers shouldn't make changes to their SSDs. (Maybe Micron doesn't make 16nm MLC NAND anymore. Who knows?)

That said, when the new product performs significantly worse than the old product, the new product shouldn't be silently slipped into the name of the old product.

There hasn't been many reviews of the new SSD, possibly because not many have noticed that the product has changed, but userbenchmark indicates that the new SSD is significantly worse.

MKNSSDRE1TB
http://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Mushkin-Reactor-1TB/Rating/3583

MKNSSDRE960GB
http://ssd.userbenchmark.com/SpeedTest/240857/MKNSSDRE960GB

 

[DGMurdockIII]

I think muskin is very underrated

 

[mwroobel]

I don't think I understand your complaint here. They came out with a new product at 960GB, which is priced lower than the 1TB version. They clearly have different part numbers and descriptions. It isn't like they had a product called A with part#1 and replaced it with a new product also called A still with part#1 which was made with different/inferior parts then you would have a valid complaint.

 

[Master_shake_]

this is not bait and switch at all.

unlike the seagate 2tb or kingston ssdnow series or PNY, they didn't use the same model number.