Mushkin Helix-L 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD Review
 

We had a chance to visit Mushkin at CES this year and they had a lot to show us on the storage front with a couple of new SSDs including the high-performance Pilot-E NVMe M.2 SSD, Source 2.5″ SSD, as well as the more budget oriented Helix-L M.2 drive (shown off at last year’s CES). In leaving that meeting, Mushkin was kind enough to give us a sample of the Helix-L as well as some Ridgeback DDR4 RAM for review – the latter we will see soon as well.

The Helix-L purports to be a budget offering with good performance (up to 1700/1500 MB/s R/W) and a solid value per GB. The Helix again uses a Silicon Motion controller and runs without a DRAM module (cost savings) using Host Memory Buffer (HMB) and system RAM similar to how drives with integrated DRAM work as well. We’ll put the drive through its paces and see how the DRAM-less drive performs!

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