Corsair Announces 480GB Force Series 3, GT SSDs
Corsair has announced the addition of a 480 GB SSD to its Force Series and Force Series GT line of SATA 6.0 Gb/s SSD drives. In addition, Corsair has added a 180 GB SSD to its Force Series SSD drives.
Force Series 3 SSDs utilize the SandForce SF-2280 controller with native support for SATA 6Gb/s (SATA 3), TRIM, and asynchronous flash memory. The Force Series 3 offers performance of up to sequential read and write speeds of up to 550 MB/s and 520 MB/s (ATTODisk Benchmark), and up to 85K Random Write IOPS (IOMeter 08).
Force Series GT SSDs utilize the SandForce SF-2280 controller also with native support for SATA 6Gb/s (SATA 3), TRIM, and synchronous flash memory. The Force Series GT 480 GB offers performance of up to 85K Random Write IOPS (IOMeter 08), sequential read speeds of up to 555 MB/s, and sequential write speeds of up to 525 MB/s (ATTO Disk Benchmark).
The new SSD models offer a three year warranty and can be found at authorized dealers at a price of $249 for the Force Series 3 180GB, $799 for the Force Series 3 480GB, and $999 for the Force Series GT 480GB. You can read more on the Corsair SSDs at their respective product pages: Corsair Force Series and Corsair Force Series GT


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I have a couple of old 120GB Vertex 2's in RAID 0 and they've been nothing but fast and reliable. Absolutely no complaints.
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.
Speed. Even a older SATA 3GB SSD is faster than a RAID0 HDD setup. I know because I went from RAID0 500GB SATA 3GB HDDs to one single Intel SSD and its much faster.
But the price is still very high per GB. Hopefully the smaller drives will drop down soon to less than $1/GB. Or at least $1/GB.
-CB
Fixed.
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".
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.
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/chartingtheriseofssds.html