Corsair Announces 480GB Force Series 3, GT SSDs

Nice, very nice...but that GT 480GB is definitely not in my current budget.

Its needed.

I wonder how many more years its going to be before we have reliable high-performance SSDs in the 512GB range that cost ~$500US.

High-performance "Reliable" SSD's in the 512GB range.

Meh. What I would really care about is some 120 GB drive with no artificially-limited-IOPS-and-speed bullshit and which doesn't cause BSoDs.

While 250 for 180GB SSD isn't "that bad", I'm still getting along quite well with my 64GB kingston Vseries SSD I got a long time ago. Sure it doesn't do 500MB sec, however I can pick up another for 75 dollars from newegg and get just about the same speed in Raid0. I'm not a huge fan of raid0 due to some bad experienced with Maxtor in the mid 90s however since SSDs are a lot more rugged and with excellent transparent backup software these days (yay Acronis) I see no reason why I won't make this jump pretty soon.

I currently have 10 SATA ports on my mobo, I will keep using smaller cheaper drives in RAID for fault tolerance and equal capacity & performance, but less that half the price of this 480Gb drive.

i never knew this but, whats the whole point of SSD's? all i know about is hard drives

Bottom line SSD pricing is idiotic at best. The prices for anything over 300 GB's are all over the place. If any SSD manufacturer is reading this STOP MAKING THEM FASTER....MAKE THEM CHEAPER FOR THE MASSES!!!!

And here come the "these are still too high" arguments...and dont stop making them faster as the idiot said above. I like having something most cant afford, we are called enthusiast for a reason.

Hey Tom's, could we have a review of these drives? 60GB to 180GB.

I think it's time for another roundup! And it would be good if you could test one SATA 3 SSD based on each controller/NAND manufacturer to see how they perform on SATA 2 interfaces, especially in terms of IOPS and random read/write bandwidth.

Crucial, Intel and Samsung seem to be the most popular and reliable if Newegg reviews are anything to go by. Would like to see how SandForce compares in terms of reliability with the latest firmware and drives. Would also like to see if the increase in IOPS (with sandforce-2xxx) has any noticeable performance increase in real world tests (boot time, etc) over Crucial, Intel and Samsung, in both SATA 2 and 3.

I went from a dual 120GB Force GT in a Raid 0, to a Revo 3 x2 240GB. I used a dedicated raid, Intel RT3WB080. The Revo performed on point with where I expected it, and for about $150 less money. I saw about 25-35% gains. Seems like 240GB is the sweet spot for my wallet. The performance is easy to attain and less hassle where a raid card is needed.
-CB

dollar a gb would be nice... then after 512gb they should give u a discount for buying memory in bulk say .90 a gb or better yet .75 a gb...

You know how Toms has a "Past the point of reason" on their best CPU for the money, for that month? Yeah, this seems be how I feel about SSDs lately. I don't care if it's slightly faster, because that slightly faster isn't applicable in most real world applications.

It also costs too much damn money, for something I won't even notice. It's fantastic that my numbers and benchmarks say it's better, but paying more for some useless number on paper doesn't exactly do it for me.


Lower the prices.


And please, spare me your high school economics about "Supply and demand".

The prices ARE coming down people. Slowly but surely. It was just in late 2008 when it would have cost me $400 to get a 120GB SSD. Now you can get one for $170, and it's much faster than the model offered back then.

I think the huge overflow of SSD products is a good thing, because it'ss forcing competition between the manufacturers. This in turn is driving down prices even more. SSDs have already fallen below the $2/GB mark. It wont be too long before they break the $1/GB mark. I've already seen a few do so on special clearance sales.

This price is ridiculous

Be patient, they will come down in price and as jrharbort said they have already massively come down in price, when i first heard about ssd's which would of been around 00' they cost around $2k for a ridiculously small drive.

In 1978 - a gigabyte of RAM SSD would have cost $1 million
In June 2001 - Adtron shipped the world's highest capacity 3.5" flash SSD. The S35PC had 14 gigabytes capacity and cost $42,000.

- http://www.storagesearch.com/chart [...] fssds.html

In about five years' time, the price of a 500GB SSD will be the same as today's 500GB HDD. I am loling at people spending all of this money on SSDs at this point in time.

I'm LOL at idiotic comments like yours.

*YAWN*. if the price drops untils 2x - 3x more than conventional hard disk drive, ring the bell, ok?

No one disputed the speed of a SSD vs HDD - I did however dispute how overpriced they are.

But wait a second, you're some delusional ass hole who thinks he has money, and for whatever reason, the price is irrelevant to you. You have money, right bro? You're some big high roller and could care less about the price....am I right? Even if you were rich, you're still a chump for paying and supporting over-inflated prices -- and they're JUST that. OVER-INFLATED.

They obviously have you convinced. You belong to the same class of idiots who over payed for their houses in the bubble that crashed in 2008.


It's a BAD thing when companies know they can get away with over pricing items - and it's even worse when people support them, and somehow justify being ripped off.


SSDs and flash memory are seriously over-inflated - artificial pricing and production costs. Just like a bottle of water costing $1 - you honestly think it cost anywhere NEAR that for them to manufacturer and supply that? Hell no, it's called 1000% profit baby.


Please don't try telling me that comparison I made above is "Apples to oranges"...and I somehow am comparing two different radical points. It was a loose analogy - I know. Thought I should make note of this, because I know someone will be dying to throw it out of context and solely argue on that point.