Corsair Wants to Replace Your Puny SSD with 180GB and 480GB SATA 6Gbps SSDs
Corsair Wants to Replace Your Puny SSD with 180GB and 480GB SATA 6Gbps SSDs
Posted 10/06/2011 at 6:08am
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Corsair today announced what it says is a "major advance in high capacity SSDs," which is marketing speak for the retail availability of its 480GB Force Series GT SSD and 180GB and 480GB Force Series 3 SSDs. The 180GB is meant to replace smaller boot drives that became popular when SSD pricing was stuck in the stratosphere, with the 480GB an option for high performance notebooks users who require "massive SSD storage capacity in a single drive."
As a refresher, the Force Series GT is built around SandForce's SF-2280 controller and offers native support for SATA 6Gbps. These drives feature ONFI synchronous flash memory, up to 85,000 random write IOPS, up to 555MBs/ read performance, and up to 525MB/s write speeds.
Corsair's Force Series 3 SSD line is built around the same controller and offers comparable performance with read and write speeds of up to 550MB/s and 520MB/s, respectively. These drives ship with a 3.5-inch adapter.
Retail pricing breaks down to $249 for the Force Series 3 180GB, $799 for the Force Series 3 480GB, and $999 for the Force Series GT 480GB.
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Coldrage
October 07, 2011 at 1:46am
Agreed with aetaaas, you gotta pay to play.
That said I'm still using a Q6600 3.6GHz and Radeon 4850 with 3 x 1TB Hard drives, I don't need to upgrade yet but boy when I do I'm going to have a field day.
Bratan
October 06, 2011 at 8:26pm
Unlike HDDs price for SSD is not coming down, in fact it seems like it's going up (probably due to new tech) :(
I got my 120GB (and btw it was the best upgrade I did) SSD almost a year ago for under $200. I hoped by now they'd drop down to a more reasonable price...
bautrey
October 06, 2011 at 11:07am
Where did u get ur price for 180GB at $250? On newegg the corsair force gt 180GB is $360. I think it might be a typo, cuz that would be an extremely good deal.
don2041
October 06, 2011 at 10:43am
I didn,t buy extra hard drives untill the price came down, the same goes for ram and usb sticks. I won,t be buying any ssds untill their prices come down substantualy.
sean76
October 06, 2011 at 10:01am
I own 2 SSD drives. A 60 GB SATA 2 OCZ and a 120 GB SATA3 6 gbps Both are great and I paid only 300 bucks pretty much a few days after each one came out. The SATA 3 drive pumps out close to 500mbps and I am very happy with my under 20 sec Windows 7 boot to full use system. I have no need for a 480 gb boot drive. Games do not need to be stored on that drive, nor any other programs. That is Windows ONLY Keep it clean, keep it fast.
SleepyCatChris
October 06, 2011 at 10:47am
This philosophy makes no sense to me. I reboot my machine maybe once or twice a month, if that. Who cares how fast it boots? I usually spend multiple hours each day running applications in Windows. Why on earth wouldn't I want my applications to load data as fast as possible? Loading times of saved games and new levels by themselves are worth installing any application you are actively using on a day-to-day basis on an SSD.
keyzs
October 06, 2011 at 8:50am
dont know if i'm being naive, SSDs are technically RAM; without mechanical parts shouldn't the price be cheaper than HDDs.... i mean in terms of manufacturing...
price of chips vs mechanical process manufacturing???
that being siad, RAM should only cost a few cents, isnt it???
CleverBullet
October 06, 2011 at 11:19am
SSDs are not like RAM in any way, RAM uses volatile capacitors to store data, Thus requiring power to keep data. SSDs use non-volatile memory to store data, and they don't require power to keep data.
GavinFarrington...
October 06, 2011 at 8:34am
While the price is still terribly high, this is at least a step in the right direction. Have there been any other SSDs with this kind of performance even remotely below $1k, let alone $800?
RET_ARMY
October 06, 2011 at 8:23am
Considering I just bought a 1TB SATA for 134$ why would I pay 1000$ for 480 gigs? They need to drop way in price before I'll change.
Erris
October 06, 2011 at 7:31am
Until the price per GB drops under $1 they won't be becoming mainstream, no matter what Corsair wants.
AETAaAS
October 06, 2011 at 8:50am
Why do people keep banging on about this 1-1 ratio? Magnetic drives used to be hundreds of dollars for just a few gigs. When USB sticks first came out, you paid through the nose for 32 MEGAbytes - MEGA! Optical storage was a similar story.
Fact is; the price will come down. But for now, you gotta pay to play. If you aren't interested, leave us enthusiats be, in our Hexa-core driven SSD utopia with SLI dreams and Crossfire fantasies. ^-^
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