Home > Consumer Reviews > Cavalry Storage Pelican Elite Series 128 GB SATA II 2.5 inch Internal Solid State Drive - SLC performance at MLC pricing - CASD0128P2

this is very good drive. I ran this drive under vista with optimizations, but it runs better under XP(without page file and no optimizing). This is on an Asus N10 Netbook. The real random access transfer rate is about 18mb/sec. this is less than what is stated, but still very good.

Vista Timings

HDD win startup 48 sec
hibernation startup 51 sec
Ssd
win startup 45 sec
hibernation startup 52 sec

XP
win startup 20 sec

apps installed
win startup 32 sec
hibernation startup 95 sec

i purchased this and a caxe37500 to upgrade my laptop. i figured 128gb would be enough to run my OS and some other key programs. i must say that i'm VERY happy with my purchase. the ssd cuts my boot times by more than 1/2 and although i haven't tested an SLC ssd, i'm quite confident this product would measure up any day. despite the price being so high compared to traditional notebook drives, i couldn't resist buying. i've been reading so much about ssds and i thought, what the heck, i'm paying for better performance, no noise, lower heat, and lower power consumption. thanks to amazon for the fast shipping and great packaging.

I wanted a drive that could be plugged in 24-7 with low power consumtion and no moving parts to break down. Since I intended to use it to record satillite programming, I needed a drive fast enough using USB2 (using a drive enclosure)to record HD quality that I could later burn to DVD on my PC. Standard USB thumb drives simply are NOT fast enough reading or writing to maintain the demanding HD MB per second required for stable "no tearing" picture.
Adding this drive to a laptop as a second DATA drive would be great BUT I caution a person that makes this a main "bootable" drive because as fast as this drive is--it still is slower the a disk based drive. Everything depends on the application you have in mind. Remember, always research!!!!

I've always heard about hard drives going bad but this was the first time I experienced it. First, several apps starting crashing which is when I figured some sectors were going bad. Sure enough a few hours later, kernel panic. It then wouldn't start up. Bummer. I love the SSD. They truly are worth it for the speed.

I bought this drive to replace the hard drive in my VAIO laptop, and I couldn't be happier. My computer boots up SO much faster, and access times are noticeably cut down. It's like going from a 56.6k modem to DSL!

The drive is light but feels very solid. It also doesn't spin like my old hard drive did when I read files, so there's no noise, and I think that helps my laptop's battery life too.

Get this SSD! Cavalry made a great product here, no complaints here.