Corsair's Force SSD Reviewed: SF-1200 is Very Good
by Anand Lal Shimpi on April 14, 2010 2:27 AM ESTFinal Words
Update: Random write performance of the drive we reviewed may change with future firmware updates. Click here to find out more.
Well, so much for the SF-1200 being a slouch. From the looks of it, I'd say that what you're looking at is a binned SF-1500 that performs well enough for most client use. Corsair's Force delivers the exact same performance as OCZ's Vertex LE, which also makes it your best bet if you're looking for a single drive that offers better-than-Intel performance. Unfortunately you do pay for it. If you look at how much you're paying per usable GB of space, these SandForce drives carry a ~33% price premium over Intel's X25-M G2.
The Corsair Force drive should be resilient enough to maintain good performance regardless of desktop workload. SandForce's unique architecture means that read performance actually suffers more than write performance over time, thankfully you'll never be in a situation where you'll need to read back LBAs that have garbage data in them so this shouldn't be a problem.
I really have no performance complaints about the SF-1200 or Corsair's Force drive. Both did very well in our tests. My concerns continue to be about long term reliability since we've only really seen these drives shipping in earnest for a couple of months now. If you're fine taking the risk, the performance is very nice. Otherwise I'd wait to see how these drives hold up over time before committing.
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Carleh - Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - link
Thanks for the tip, I'll try it.bstowe94 - Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - link
Yes the idea of using the print to read the whole article at once is quite nice. I will be doing this from now on.therealnickdanger - Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - link
It's also very nice for bathroom breaks. Some men read the paper. I read AT!dgz - Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - link
That's what I do.You can also to this in Chrome and Opera, too.
Spivonious - Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - link
Remember that the Print view doesn't have banner ads. That's the major source of revenue for this site, so I doubt Anand is going to make the Print view more attractive for on-screen reading.nsiboro - Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - link
... then insert a few adverts between pages, I personally don't mind. AT can feed me Ads and Tech, anytime!chrnochime - Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - link
Hate to break it to you but not everything in life can be bent to your pleasing.Carleh - Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - link
Before redesign, print layout used to have margins, so it's not really "bending to my pleasing", I'm not asking for something new.BTW, what's the point of your comment?
mariush - Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - link
File > Print Preview > Page Setup > Margins & Header/FooterSet the values you're comfortable width and print.
No need to mess with the site for such things.
nilepez - Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - link
The site makes money based on either ad views or ad clicks. Clearly, they'll get less of both if everyone reads the text on a single page that has no ads.I was going to suggest page zipper (FF plugin), but it doesn't work with this site, and even if it did, since they have feed back directly below each page, you'd have to get through every singe post to get to scroll to the next page (rinse/repeat for each page of text).
I think it'd be smarter for Anand to put the feed back after the last page and setup pages to work with page zipper.....we get a single page with all the text, but we also see all of the adds.
With that said, I don't really mind the current set.