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
Power Consumption
Generally speaking Marvell SSDs do quite well in power consumption tests, so I was interested to see if Corsair is able to beat Plextor's M3, given that Plextor uses a custom firmware whereas Corsair does not.
Idle power consumption is identical to Plextor's M3 and they are both the most power efficient drives at idle of what we have tested.
The Performance Pro is also the most power efficient non-SF drive in sequential writes.
All in all, the Performance Pro is extremely power efficient and is overall definitely one of the most efficient drives we have tested. It would certainly make a good fit for a laptop drive.
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Kristian Vättö - Monday, May 14, 2012 - link
Anand is waiting for the final version before publishing any data. Apparently there are a few things that OCZ promised will be featured in the final version, but I'm not sure what.SlyNine - Monday, May 14, 2012 - link
I plan on running drives in Raid 0. Trim doesn't do anything there so its important how a drive deals with a no trim situation.Coroder - Monday, May 14, 2012 - link
I've been running first gen vertex drives in raid 0 since they were released and since installing the firmware on them that enabled garbage collection they have been fine and they are routinely at 90% capacity.Mars999 - Monday, May 14, 2012 - link
What firmwares are you running on these drives?Thanks!
Kristian Vättö - Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - link
Corsair has not posted any firmware updates so in this case it's the stock firmware (1.00 I think). I'm not 100% sure what firmwares the other drives are running but you may be able to find that info in the review of a certain SSD. However, some drives were tested quite a while ago so they may not be running the latest firmware. We try to update our charts if there are significant gains from a newer FW, though.kstan12 - Monday, May 14, 2012 - link
I would like to see my Mushkin Enhanced Chronos Deluxe 240GB reviewed & compared please!!biodtl - Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - link
I second that notion! The Deluxe is a real performer and could put up some competition here.Kristian Vättö - Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - link
Just sent an email to Mushkin :-)kstan12 - Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - link
you rock!! hope to see it on here soon! thanks!!MarcHFR - Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - link
Hi,You wrote
"Neither Plextor or Corsair manufactures the drives they sell. Both companies buy their drives from Lite-On and if you take a look at Lite-On's M3S SSD, it seems a lot like Corsair's Performance Series Pro and Plextor's SSDs, doesn't it? That's why the hardware of the Performance Pro and M3 is the same—they come from the same plant."
In fact Plextor is a part of PLDS, a joint venture between Lite-On IT and Philips.