Corsair SandForce vs OCZ Agility SSD

I'm thinking of purchasing an ssd as well and one feature that is a must is TRIM enabled.

Trying to decide between a 128GB Corsair SSD and OCZ Vertex 2 120GB SSD. which is faster? Any Ideas?

thanks

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as far as i know, both Corsair SSD and OCZ Vertex 2 SSD have got similar results.. read:285, write:275, but what i didn't get which one is faster and reliable than other?

Edit: can someone gives me benchmarks for both SSD

thanks in advance

 

In real world situations, they're pretty much identical.

 

Agreed with Sgogeta, you won't notice the difference unless you're using synthetic benchmarks.

In theory Corsair Force is slightly faster than Agility 2.

In reality OCZ has the best support forum.

 

DO NOT get the Corsair Force right now they are having bunch of problems. You can go to their forums and look at all the complaints.

 

I have had my F60 for a month and never had any problems, though there is a problem, but it supposedly only affects a few percentage of system.

You can read up on this issue in the link below.

F120 SSD Random Kernel-Power 41 BSOD; Not Detected on Boot - The Corsair Support Forums

 

thanks guys for your great helpful information. Actually, both SSDs are very awesome. I've just bought two different SSDs as stated above .. i will make Raid 0 for sure. the first SSD drive will stick w/ Corsair F-16 for fast boot-up for sure, and the second drive is going to fit OCZ Vertex 2 120GB.. Any recommendation?

hope SSD functions do well and TRIM will be supported hands down on my rig.

peace

 

I remember there were firmware issues between several Sandforce partners. OCZ was an early Sandforce partner and they had a deal in the beginning where OCZ would get exclusive non iops limited SF1200 firmware. For whatever reason, it looked like a release candidate of OCZ's exclusive firmware got leaked to all Sandforce partners. Corsair used that firmware for their Force drives which had a low power state bug and Corsair apparently got around this by disabling some low power state drive feature or something and released it as is.

Going forward OCZ will continue to get non iops limited custom firmware per their agreement with Sandforce but the situation with Corsairs is unclear. I doubt the difference will be high though since the practical difference between Vertex 2 and Agility 2 (which is a 4k iops capped Vertex 2) is almost non existent.

So heres the bottom line. The firmware fiasco is a bit disappointing but right now, I would always go with whoever is offering the best warranty at the cheapest price. In practical terms all of the Sandforce SF1222 drives are practically the same in terms of speed.

For example, Patriot are offering a 10 year warranty on their ssds. Even if the company is in financial trouble all you need is for them to be around in 3 years and every day after that is free cover over the competition. Provided you don't pay alot more for the warranty alone, I'd go with them or OCZ who amongst all the Sandforce partners look as if they are going to be around the longest.

 

TRIM does not pass down through RAID arrays. You can either have your drives in a RAID array and use a garbage collection utility, or you can non-RAIDed drives with TRIM.

 

Fore the record, Patriot Inferno (Sandforce) has 5 year warranty. Most other Sandforce drives have three year.