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Until prices come down, there isn't a whole lot for solid state drive (SSD) makers to do other than flesh out their lineups with additional capacities. That's what Corsair has done (again) with its Force series, today announcing the addition of 90GB (F90) and 180GB (F180) models.
"Corsair's Force series of SSDs have become extremely popular with enthusiasts and gamers, and with these two new capacities we can offer our customers greater flexibility to choose the capacity that best suits their budget," stated Thi La, VP of Memory Products at Corsair. "The 90GB and 180GB capacities neatly fill the gaps in the current family, which now ranges from 40GB all the way to 240GB."
Built around the Sandforce SF-1200 controller, Corsair rates the latest additions at up to 285MB/s read and up to 275MB/s write speeds, with a 4K random write throughput of up to 50,000 IOPS.
The F90 ($190) and F180 ($400) are available now.
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LilHammer
June 08, 2011 at 10:44am
So you're saying you'd rather endorse a company that knowingly shipped hardware-revised SSDs under the same name and model number as a previous revision, which performed slower... and a company that also denied any issues or switcheroos until they were called out by Anandtech at which time they finally owned up to their "mistake"? They switched from 34nm NAND chips to 25nm and used only half the NAND chips in the same 120GB drive, reducing the number of channels by 50% and simply left the model number alone. You could say they never even bothered to test performance on the updated drives - either way it doesn't matter. They changed things, knew it would affect performance as well as capacity of these drives, decided to leave the labels alone so no one buying their SSDs could tell, and denied it the whole time.
Yet a company who proactively recalls their drives deserves no respect. I think you should reconsider what you value. I currently run a pair of OCZ Vertex 2 drive in RAID 0, fully knowing and taking responsibility for the risks. Though I've had no problems with the drives, I am seriously considering avoiding them in the future due to their willful deceit. If they treat their loyal enthusiast customers this way, why wouldn't they do it again? Besides, this was not the first time they left their customers in the lurch.
