Super Talent 32GB Mini PCI-E Half Solid State Drive (MLC) FEM32GHDL

by Super Talent

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4 x 2.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0020IF7AI
• Item model number: FEM32GHDL
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #59,028 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 27, 2009

Product Description

Capacity: 32GB

Super Talent 32GB MLC Half Mini PCI-E Solid State Drive

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Wouldn't work in my Dell Mini 9, December 22, 2009

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J. Stekas (Murray Hill, NJ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Super Talent 16GB Mini PCI-E Half Solid State Drive (MLC) FEM16GHDL (Personal Computers)

I tried two of these cards in my Dell Mini 9 without success.

Card installed easily but was not detected by the BIOS ("HDD: None"). Even so, the OS installed fine and the Mini worked fine for a few days. Then -- poof -- the Mini would not boot. Booted off a USB drive (Ubuntu) and the device (/dev/sda) was not seen at all. Reseating the HW was of no help. Put back the orignal SSD, and the Mini works fine.

Judging by the web postings I read, this seems to be a not too uncommon problem.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Slow as can be, March 25, 2010

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Joshua Sorenson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Super Talent 32GB Mini PCI-E Half Solid State Drive (MLC) FEM32GHDL (Personal Computers)

I bought this product after my stock drive had died in my Dell mini 9. I got it and installed Windows 7 on it. Works perfectly except it's REALLY slow. This thing slows down my whole system. I am returning this one and getting a RunCore drive.

DO NOT buy this drive if you care about performance

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's fast and slim, March 27, 2009

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G. Hutcheson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Super Talent 16GB Mini PCI-E Half Solid State Drive (MLC) FEM16GHDL (Personal Computers)

I replaced my 32GB Corsair with this because the Corsair was too fat to work with my MacBook Air. I also wanted something faster. It's very fast and very well made. I like to wear these around my neck because I've had too many fail in my pockets. I like the size because I can now leave my notebook alone in a hotel room etc. without the fear of loss of data. I just wish the notebook manufacturers would figure this out and have instantly removable SSDs. Buy the way, I switched to the Air after buying Sony's carbon fiber superlight notebook and found Vista spoiled it. If you want to read more on these two, click here:

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5 STAR REDUX -----

At first it was great and I gave it 5 stars. But then it stopped working and most of the sectors went bad. Couldn't do a low level format. Sent it back and 20% of the sectors in the second one failed too. Third was in for a day before it locked its write mode and wouldn't let me write to it. So, we're in for a 4th try.

That said, SuperTalent has been super in taking the returns back and working to fix the problem. They say they haven't seen this with anyone else and I am trying to move between OSx and XP machines. Most of their customers are in XP. So I gave them a 5 before for performance and now a 5 for support. But a 1 on reliability and hassle for an average of a 3. I really want this to work because of the speed and form factor. I'll follow up again as they are still working hard to work it out.

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