THE VENTURA ULTRA 120GB

The drive is placed inside a typical clear plastic package that allows you to see it from the front.

At the rear you can see the features and specifications of the Ventura Ultra.

Mushkin has used aircraft grade aluminum for the enclosure which measures 93mm in length, 24mm in width and 13.25mm in height while weighing just 38g (yes it's only available in black).

Squeezing almost all of the components found in regular SSD models inside a tiny enclosure is not as easy as it sounds so naturally the Ventura Ultra is longer than most USB flash drives in the market.

A round activity LED is placed at the top of the drive right next to the protection cap.

There's nothing really on the other side of the drive just the two out of three screws holding the enclosure together.

I really was hoping for something "sturdier" than a typical USB connector cap (doesn't look all that nice either) but unfortunately that's what Mushkin decided to use.

The enclosure is can open very easily (just remove the three screws) to reveal the Sandforce SF-2281 NAND flash controller (other side of the PCB), NAND flash modules and the ASMedia 1053E bridge chip (as you can see the aluminum enclosure is used as a heatsink to "cool" the components).