Mushkin Reactor 1TB SSD Review

Silicon Motion has practically become the new SandForce. Almost every tier three manufacturer (i.e. one with no controller/firmware IP or NAND fab) has released an SM2246EN based drive in the past ten months and recently Silicon Motion scored two major tier one partners (namely Micron/Crucial and SanDisk) as well. To be honest, this hasn’t come as a surprise because the SM2246EN is a really solid controller with good performance and more importantly it’s been mostly issue free (which is something that cannot be said about SandForce). Mushkin’s Reactor combines the SM2246EN with Micron’s latest 128Gbit 16nm MLC NAND, and this is actually the first time we’ve encountered a non-Micron/Crucial SSD with Micron’s 16nm NAND. Read on to find out how the SM2246EN performs with Micron’s latest NAND!