Corsair Performance Series Pro (256GB) Review
by Kristian Vättö on May 14, 2012 9:10 AM EST- Posted in
- Storage
- SSDs
- Corsair
- Marvell
- Corsair Performance Pro
Final Words
Corsair's Performance Series Pro is very fast, and well behaved. Its power consumption is also nice and low, making it a good fit for notebook users. In the end, it all boils down to pricing. SSD pricing is highly volatile - at the time of publication the Performance Series Pro, at least at Newegg, came in a bit too high.
Given the solid track record of Samsung's SSD 830 and its good performance, we really need to see pricing more in-line with it or Crucial's m4 for the Performance Series Pro to make sense. If you come across one of these drives on a good sale however, don't hesitate to pull the trigger.
Longer term there are always concerns about Marvell's ability to deliver timely firmware updates to its customers who lack their own internal firmware teams. It's because of this that pricing is even more important to get right.
| NewEgg Price Comparison (5/14/2012) | ||||
| 64GB | 128GB | 256GB | 512GB | |
| Corsair Performance Series Pro | N/A | $200 | $340 | N/A |
| Plextor M3 | $130 | $180 | $340 | $660 |
| Crucial m4 | $80 | $120 | $250 | $600 |
| Intel 520 Series | $113 | $179 | $331 | $825 |
| Samsung 830 Series | $100 | $130 | $310 | $710 |
| OCZ Vertex 3 | $165 | $110 | $250 | $650 |
| OCZ Vertex 4 | N/A | $150 | $300 | $650 |
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SlyNine - Monday, May 14, 2012 - link
Put a M4 in my GF's computer and she has had no problems at all. Friend also has one and again no problems.Just because you have had issues doesn't mean someone else will, if they were that easily repeatable they would be easy to fix.
ShieTar - Monday, May 14, 2012 - link
Why does this article contain two tables with the exactly same lable "NewEgg Price Comparison (5/5/2012)" but very different numbers?Kristian Vättö - Monday, May 14, 2012 - link
If you loaded the article right when it went live, it's possible that you saw two different tables. I updated the prices just before I posted this, but forgot to copy-paste the new table to the final page. Both tables should be up to date now, though.CyberAngel_777 - Thursday, May 17, 2012 - link
I wish you had two different dates and prices just show the price fluctuationsand then later with updated data also updated prices
every drive should have thickness data recorded
thank you!
Coroder - Monday, May 14, 2012 - link
Does the vertex 4 drive in this test use the new firmware that was made available? It increases the speed in most tests by quite a bit.XJDHDR - Monday, May 14, 2012 - link
I believe they are waiting for the firmware to come out of beta testing.jwilliams4200 - Monday, May 14, 2012 - link
Lite-On owns Plextor, so it is misleading to say that Plextor buys the SSDs from Lite-On. It would be more accurate to say that the Plextor / Lite-On relationship is like the Crucial / Micron relationship.koinkoin - Monday, May 14, 2012 - link
At my company we use McAfee Endpoint Encryption, how does this affect the performance of the drives and how much does this change over time?I went for a Plextor M3 256GB and seem to be working fine as for now, but only got it now for 2weeks.
rlhunts - Monday, May 14, 2012 - link
My company also uses the McAfee Endpoint Encryption. I upgraded the WD 250 GB 7200 RPM drive to a Samsung 830 258 GB SSD in my Dell laptop (I5 2540M processor) a couple months ago. It definitely helps, especially with boot time, but McAfee EE adds a lot of processor overhead, which a drive can't help with. It's still slow as a slug compared to the same machine and software configuration without McAfee with a traditional 7200 rpm hard disk.Movieman420 - Monday, May 14, 2012 - link
In all fairness the Vertex 4 needs to be re-tested with the latest 1.4RC fw...or wait til it's final then flash up.