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Smart Wizard
Get a complete build plan based on budget and goals.
Build Comparison
Compare complete builds side by side.
Part Comparison
Check specs, price, and value across parts.
Bottleneck Calculator
Measure CPU and GPU balance before you buy.
Power Calculator
Estimate wattage and PSU headroom.
Will It Run?
Test your hardware against popular games.
Smart Wizard
Get a complete build plan based on budget and goals.
Build Comparison
Compare complete builds side by side.
Part Comparison
Check specs, price, and value across parts.
Bottleneck Calculator
Measure CPU and GPU balance before you buy.
Power Calculator
Estimate wattage and PSU headroom.
Will It Run?
Test your hardware against popular games.
Mushkin
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Performance, endurance, NAND architecture, thermals, and compatibility.
About This Product
The Mushkin PILOT 120GB is an M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe Gen3 x4 SSD. This drive offers significantly faster read/write speeds compared to SATA SSDs, making it suitable for a primary boot drive or for accelerating application loading. Its small capacity limits its use for extensive game libraries or large data storage, but it provides a performance upgrade over traditional hard drives or budget SATA SSDs for system responsiveness.
Verdict
“Good for budget system builders needing a fast boot drive.”
Performance, endurance, NAND architecture, thermals, and compatibility.
Sequential, random, and sustained speeds.
Sequential Read
1,215 MB/s
Sequential Write
515 MB/s
4K Random Read
91K IOPS
4K Random Write
133K IOPS
How long the drive lasts under sustained writes.
MTBF
1.5M hours
Warranty
3 years
Controller, NAND, and cache — what most retailers don't show you.
DRAM Cache
Yes
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