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This SSD report is our first of the New Year and examines the Super Talent Tera Nova 120GB SATA 3 SSD that was announced this past December.

The Tera Nova is touted by Super Talent as being their fastest yet and aimed at the Pro/enthusiast market with new SandForce ‘optimized’ firmware. This firmware (334ABBF0) provides for better boot times and responsiveness as well as enhanced reliability and data protection in the event of power loss.

As coincidence may have it, our last Super Talent review was on the TeraDrive CT3 in September 2011 and these SSDs seemed very similar in appearance so we had to quickly open the Tera Nova up for a look.

What we found was the exact same PCB as the CT3 to include the SandForce SF-2281 processor and 16 modules of Micron 25nm 8GB capacity asynchronous NAND flash memory. Click on the picture for some great close ups!

From there, we took a quick look at the SuperTalent Tera Nova Data Sheet and saw that listed specifications for this drive were 540 MB/s read and 510MB/s write transfer speeds at high sequential disk access. These transfer speeds will change slightly depending on the capacity of the Tera Nova SSD which is available in 60, 120. 240 and 480GB sizes with pricing not yet announced.