Is your Hard Disk Drive (HDD) booting windows in 35 seconds or more? Are the applications you normally use opening even slower than they use to? Then head ever to Corsair and pick yourself up an SSD! Corsair is proud to announce today two brand new lines of SSD’s guaranteed to meet your demands. Whether you are an enthusiast or a person who wants things to simply run faster, Corsair is here for you. Now that im done sounding like a G.I Joe specia,l lets get down to business. When it comes to SSD’s, there are so many in the market that its hard to choose which is best for what. So let me say this. IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT YOU CHOOSE, JUST CHOOSE ONE! Any SSD you choose will be faster than any hard drive on the market, and the speeds that you see during these benchmarks on the internet come from benching software used to push these SSD’s to the limit. I doubt there is anyone on the consumer level who will be moving 500MB+ of data constantly, and if you are, you seriously need to look into purchasing a server or something of that nature.
Now, I’m not saying that they all do the same, nor am I saying going with a certain brand over another will grant you better reliability. SSD’s are still fairly new technology and should be treated as such. In terms of speeds, some do better than others; but the speed you see in the benchmarks are speeds that you, The Average Consumer , will never see. So if you’re seriously looking at an SSD, check out one that’s affordable like the SSDs being offered by Corsair. Also, look through reviews of the ones you choose so you know you aren’t getting ripped off. Again, I could go into the nuances of memory controller’s and real world read/write speeds, but this is not the time.
New 180GB and 480GB SATA 3 6Gb/s drives meet market demand for affordable high-capacity SSD’s
FREEMONT, Californa–October 6th, 2011–Corsair®, a worldwide designer and supplier of high-performance components to the PC gaming hardware market, today announced worldwide retail availability of the 480GB Force Series™ GT SSD and 180GB and 480GB Force Series 3 SSDs.
As solid-state drives reach wider adoption rates, Corsair’s new SSD models address growing market demand for fast, high-capacity drives. The 180GB Force Series 3 targets consumers and IT professionals who want an affordable step up from 120GB, and the 480GB models are ideal for high-performance notebook PC users who require massive SSD storage capacity in a single drive. The top of the line 480GB Force Series GT SSD is designed for video editing, competitive gaming, and other applications for which extraordinary performance is required.
“As one of the leaders in high-performance solid state drives, we’re pleased to offer a full range of SSD models to address customers’ needs for high performance, high-capacity storage.”, said Thi La, Vice President of Memory Products at Corsair.
Force Series GT: Designed for enthusiasts who demand the fastest performance available
Force Series GT SSDs use the SandForce SF-2280 SSD Processor, with native support for SATA 6Gb/s (SATA 3), combined with ONFI synchronous flash memory. Force Series GT SSD upgrades deliver outstanding read/write performance and significantly faster system response, boot times, and application load times than SATA 2 solid-state drives, with out-of-box performance of up to 85K Random Write IOPS, read speeds of up to 555 MB/s, and write speeds of up to 525 MB/s. The use of synchronous flash memory makes the Force GT Series particularly adept at reading and writing non-compressible data, such as video and music files.Force Series 3: Fast and Flexible SSDs for high-performance PCs
Force Series 3 SSDs use the SandForce SF-2280 SSD Processor combined with asynchronous flash memory technology to deliver strong value and SATA 6Gb/s performance. The Force Series 3 has out-of-box read and write speeds of up to 550 MB/s and 520 MB/s respectively, and up to 85K Random Write IOPS for measurably faster system response, boot times and application load times.All Force Series 3 and Force Series GT models are also backward compatible with SATA 2, and include an easy-to-use 3.5″ adapter for use in both laptop and desktop PCs.
The new Force Series 3 and Force Series GT SSD models are available from authorized distributors and retailers worldwide at a US suggested retail price of $249 USD for the Force Series 3 180GB, $799 for the Force Series 3 480GB, and $999 for the Force Series GT 480GB. Note that stated capacities are unformatted and actual capacities will vary depending on the formatting and operating system used.
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