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    Corsair Force GT

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by MaX PL, Mar 4, 2011.

  1. MaX PL

    MaX PL Notebook Deity

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    MaX PL, Mar 4, 2011
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  2. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Holy moly that is a sexy color for sexy specs! Go Corsair!
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Mar 5, 2011
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  3. trvelbug

    trvelbug Notebook Prophet

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    Waiting on specs and pricing of this sexy thing
     
    trvelbug, Mar 5, 2011
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  4. tilleroftheearth

    tilleroftheearth Wisdom listens quietly...

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    Anything based on SandForce controllers are 'up to' speeds.

    Thanks to DuraWrite and DuraClass 'technology' along with the LTWT issue with SF controllers (LTWT=Life Time Write Throttling) you can guarantee that you will never enjoy those speeds in any normal usage scenario.

    Worse, if anyone actually buys these to use them fully (like I tried with a SandForce based Inferno) they will see drastically reduced performance numbers - numbers that are throttled back all in the name of 'preserving' the nand inside (but greatly diminishing the 'performance' aspect of the drive) - the very reason it was bought in the first place.

    I have seen the previews on Anandtech which shows that the throttling is much less severe than previous SandForce offerings, but consider this:

    When all is said and done, the Intel 510 with the Marvell controller is just as fast in real world use even though it 'benches' at 2009 levels in the 4K R R/W's.

    Will I test one of these new SF based drives? Sure! :)

    Will I ever be duped into keeping it past the return period again? Never.

    If this SF based drive will be used to power a system with very light usage and kept less than 50% filled, I'm sure many people will swear by them.

    If bought and used to take advantage of the speed it supposedly offers - the swearing will be at it, not for it.


    Disclosure: I put ~3TB of writes to my drives in ~30 days - that is my normal 'performance' use out of HDD's and SSD's that I expect them to live up to (so far, haven't found one yet).
     
    tilleroftheearth, Mar 5, 2011
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  5. Judicator

    Judicator Judged and found wanting.

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    And as an additional disclosure, you should probably add specifically that even the Intel G2 didn't meet your standards, so... :p
     
    Judicator, Mar 5, 2011
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  6. tilleroftheearth

    tilleroftheearth Wisdom listens quietly...

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    Judicator, maybe I didn't specifically say so, but I did say 'none found yet'. ;)

    The G2 simply doesn't have enough write speed - it's sad when a $55 HDD (okay, the Scorpio Black.. lol... ) is faster than an SSD.
     
    tilleroftheearth, Mar 5, 2011
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  7. Phil

    Phil Retired

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    The SSD Review Computex Taipei Update: Corsair Announces Force 3 GT SSDs For The Enthusiast | The SSD Review
     
    Phil, Jul 1, 2011
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  8. Apparition

    Apparition Notebook Consultant

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    Rumor has it samples are on route to reviewers for testing.
     
    Apparition, Jul 2, 2011
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