Corsair Announces Two New Speedy But Pricey SSD Cards

Posted 02/08/2010 at 2:14pm | by Bart Salisbury

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Corsair’s bumping up the specs on its SSD line-up, with the introduction of two new series of SATA-II 2.5-inch drives: Nova and Reactor.

In addition to the SATA-II interface, the drives will use the Indilinx Barefoot controller and MLC NAND. The Nova series will have a 64MB cache and capacities of 64GB and 128GB. The Reactor series will have a 128MB cache and capacities of 60GB and 120GB.

Read/write speeds are pretty snappy for each. The Nova series will max out at 215MB/s  for reading, and writing speeds of 130MB/s for the V64 drive, and 195MB/s for the V128 drive. The Reactor’s read/write speeds are higher still, with read speeds topping out at 250MB/s, and write speeds of 110MB/s for the R60 drive and 170MB/s for the R120 drive.

An added bonus on the Reactor series is a mini-USB port, in addition to the SATA II 3.0Gbps interface.

All four drives are expected to be available in the next few weeks. But, so far, they only seem available in Europe. And, even with exchange rates in mind, they don’t look to be priced for the cost-conscious. Fudzilla reports the lowest prices for the Nova series as €160.11 ($224) and €303.35 ($425), and for the Reactor series €151.67 ($212) and €294.93 ($413).

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