Corsair's Force SSD Reviewed: SF-1200 is Very Good
by Anand Lal Shimpi on April 14, 2010 2:27 AM ESTSequential Read/Write Speed
Using the 6-22-2008 build of Iometer I ran a 3 minute long 2MB sequential test over the entire span of the drive. The results reported are in average MB/s over the entire test length:
I'll go ahead and ruin the surprise right now - in the synthetic tests, you can't tell the difference between the Vertex LE and Corsair's Force drive. The two are identical performers. And it's not a bad thing, because they're both among the best.
Facebook
Twitter
RSS
63 Comments
View All Comments
marc_soad - Thursday, April 15, 2010 - link
If I'm not wrong, what the author means is 2 000 000 hours = 83 333 days = 228 years.So the drive is meant to fail after 228 years if it's powered on all the time, or more if the computer is powered on only for a portion of the day.
Thanks for the review by the way! :)
p05esto - Friday, April 16, 2010 - link
Hey, I COMPLETELY agree with the printing thing....I hate articles that have "pages", I'd rather view a 10 page long single document....yes, I'm that frickin lazy. You shouldn't remove the pages, but offer a FULL view option? I use the print option sometimes as well just to read an article all at once.poee - Friday, July 16, 2010 - link
"Performance is down, as you'd expect, but not to unbearable levels and it's also pretty consistent."Why is performance down? Why should we "expect" this? Do I have to read every SSD article you've written previously to understand new articles? Or is there one big article that has all the info that you obliquely allude to in subsequent articles?
Where can I find the current recommendations for SSDs (SandForce vs Indilinx vs Intel vs Micron vs Samsung, latest firmware updates, etc.)? Is there a central repository of SSD information that is assimilated and arranged categorically (for easy research), or must all this info be followed like a blog?