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    Corsair Force SATA II SSD

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by junkiejungwoo, Jun 25, 2011.

  1. junkiejungwoo

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    If you don't mind the fact that nearly every Sandforce 1200 based drive has 19% failures on Newegg, then it's a pretty good SSD.

    I'd suggest Intel 320, Samsung 470 or Crucial C300 instead.
     
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    I would say dont buy it. I have the same kit, and well, it doesnt work for all people, so if you are one of those that constantly do heavy read and writes, it will lock the pc. if you have a mobo that its not compatible, it wont get back from sleep
     
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    crap........ any other ssds that have 100gb+ storage and has a decent read/write rate with a decent price?? I cant do mail in rebates or anything sadly...
     
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    Too bad you can't do MIR:

    Nice 96GB SSD for $105 after MIR
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...m2157X567668X937f52ba37494e0dc6dcad5bb2272184


    I also like this comment about the Force 115:

    *not much faster than a WD caviar black HDD or a Samsung HDD that run at 7200RPM
    ssd read rate = 181.7 mb/s
    ssd write rate = 80.1 mb/s

    hdd read rate = 113.2 mb/s
    hdd write rate = 109.4 mb/sec

    My write rate is faster on my HDD? I had to run that test agian, but it's true.

    Newegg.com - Corsair Force CSSD-F115GB2-BRKT-A 2.5" 115GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
     
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    how's the speed on the kingston drive, I heard its not that great...
     
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    maybe even a seagate momentus xt could work?
     
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    Wait, and save up some more money.
     
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    The thing is that I reallly need a sub 10-20sec boot speed, and Its the only time ill be in the US for the next 2 years and the prices in russia and korea are around 50% inflated
     
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    The kingstson is the 256GB version! lesser GB won't perform as well.
     
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    Read performance is virtually the same, so boot performance will also be very similar.

    The larger versions are faster with writing, multi tasking and file duplication.
     
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    Are you sure? I'm sure I've seen stats where that is not the case with all drives.
     
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    Well, personally, I would want to see a comparison.
     
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    wow..they are actually both very close but..
    is 106$ a good price for a samsung 470 64gb??
     
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    I've also compared OCZ Vertex 3 120GB and 240GB. Boot times were nearly identical.
     
    Phil, Jun 26, 2011
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