G.Skill Falcon II 128GB SSD Review

Packaging and Accessories

As we said in the introduction, giving this mid range product the exact same name as your flagship product is going to cause a bit of confusion amongst your target nice. As with the original Falcon, the box is an all white affair with red highlights, and stylized Falcons on the front.

Also just like the original, the back of the box is where you will find a small blurb on it and its specifications. Unless you compare the specifications of the original with the Falcon 2, you may not notice the fact that the specifications for this model are slightly lower.


On the positive side, opening this box up we can see that G.Skill stood with their tried, tested and true internal protection scheme. The cardboard and foam “book” style protection is one of the best ways to protect a solid state drive we have seen. It really is a damn shame that not more companies follow G. Skill and OCZ’s lead on this as it is head and shoulders above the other options we have looked at in the past.


Unfortunately for the G. Skill Falcon II, our expectations of what should come as standard accessories has been significantly elevated after looking at the Kingston SSDNow V 40GB. While that item was the desktop upgrade kit, there were several good additions which should be included in more expensive drives as well. Keeping with the status quo, the Falcon II comes with a instruction pamphlet and jumper but nothing else.