Review of Mushkin Pilot M.2 NVMe SSD – Performance and Features

Mushkin Pilot NVMe SSD

Today, we are going to talk about the Mushkin Pilot NVMe SSD.

It is made with a Silicon Motion SM2262 controller which is paired with the Micron 64-layer 3D TLC.

The standard-sized M.2 2280 module has a green PCB and a blue sticker.

And all of them feature LPDDR4 memory for getting better performance.

You may know that most of the SSD performance depends on the capacity.

Take the 1TB version as an example.

However, the 500GB version hits the sweet spot.

It performed with 2680/1755 MB/s sequential read and write and 335K/277K IOPS random read and write.

Besides, it can tolerate a 1500G shock resistance.

Additionally, you might get a 3 years warranty when you buy this Mushkin Pilot M.2 NVMe SSD drive.

Then, we will talk about the features about this Mushkin Pilot M.2 NVMe SSD drive.

Mushkin added the MEDS system to the Pilot NVMe drive.

It supports both NVMe Security Erase and NVMe Deallocate (NVMe equivalent of TRIM command) function.

it’s possible for you to also obtain the S.M.A.R.T.

support which enables you to monitoring the health situation of the drive.

However, the front of the package doesnt show more information about the drive.