Corsair Force LS (240GB) Review
by Kristian Vättö on September 25, 2013 12:00 AM ESTPower Consumption
Power consumption at idle is extremely low, which should make the Force LS a good option for laptop users. Under load the power draw gets higher but the the load figures aren't a concern, and in practice the SSD will be idle far more often than not.
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LtGoonRush - Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - link
Crucial has had a pretty poor record with firmware issues, particularly on the M4. Even given the lower endurance of TLC NAND I think it is a reasonable to expect the Samsung 840 Evo to be a more reliable drive for most users.Bob Todd - Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - link
Other than the admittedly awful SMART Power On Hours bug that was fixed a long time ago, I think you need to back up that statement. Crucial has been one of the go-to SSD makers for a lot of people specifically for the reliability (along with Intel/Samsung).1Angelreloaded - Tuesday, October 1, 2013 - link
As long as it lasts 3-5 years, Who cares? by then you should be migrating to newer ones anyways and recycle it as a cache drive.JDG1980 - Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - link
I'd be concerned about reliability with a new, unproven controller - especially when it comes from a company I've never heard of before.It sounds like Marvell controllers are inexpensive, but the cost of each company writing its own firmware drives prices up. I'd like to see a Marvell-based SSD with open-source firmware.
SteelCity1981 - Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - link
I would have liked to have seen the Samsung 840 250gb EVO in rapid mode in this benchmark to see the extra performance increase.red12355 - Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - link
Sort of unrelated, but is there ever going to be an Intel 530 SSD review? It got released a while back but hardly has any reviews.I remember there was a 520 review before the SSD was even out.
Kristian Vättö - Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - link
Intel has not approached us about the SSD 530 yet. Let me check with them to see if we can get a review sample.romrunning - Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - link
The colors on these graphs are very hard to distinguish, especially when you hit over-laying "pastel" type of colors. Is it too difficult to get colors that are easier to distinguish?Kristian Vättö - Wednesday, September 25, 2013 - link
What kind of colors would work the best in your opinion? We are always open to suggestions in order to make our content more user-friendly :)bobbozzo - Thursday, September 26, 2013 - link
RGB + CMYK might work out.Yellow on white is usually hard to see though.
Also, you'd need one more color as there are 8 drives tested.
I wonder what Tufte would say...