Corsair breaks the speed record with new SSDs

Posted on 8 Mar 2010 at 10:57

Corsair has announced another addition to its range of Solid State Drive, the Force Series, built around the SandForce SF-1200 SSD processor. Corsair claims performance of up to 280MB/s read and 260MB/s write for the new Force drives, more than doubling the write speed of the Corsair Reactor SSD devices announced last week. "The Force Series are the fastest SSDs that Corsair has launched to date," stated Kevin Conley, Vice President of Engineering at Corsair.

The SSD market is currently a very busy one - this news comes hot on the tail of the announcement by Western Digital of its first SSD, but Western Digital makes more modest claims for the performance off its new SliconEdge Blue drives.

SSDs don't have any moving parts, so they aren't subject to failures due to wear in the way that traditional hard drives are, while experts assure us that write limits associated with older flash memory SSDs are an insignificant issue with modern Solid State Drives.

Unfortunately, something that hasn't significantly improved is the relative price of the drives. SSDs are still much pricier than their traditional HD equivalents. The Force series is particularly expensive, even for an SSD, at £578 for the 200GB CSSD-F200GB2-BRKT drive and £333 for the 100GB CSSD-F100GB2-BRKT. There are very few applications that will benefit from writing data at these super-fast speeds, although overall system responsiveness does improve.

Author: Kat Orphanides

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User comments

Crucial RealSSD C300

OCZ is over priced with marginal performance compares to others on the market - imho.

Crucial has a SATA III drive out that promise up to 355MB/s.

SuperTalent and Fusion IO has PCIe at 1.4GB/s and 1.5GB/s.

By testing12345 on 8 Mar 2010