Beans - Corsair jumps into SSD (solid-state disc) market with a splash

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It's official: memory-specialist Corsair is bringing its expertise to the SSD market.

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More players the better, read/write speeds might be a bit low but if the price is right it'll still be a winner
SSDs are super due to typical low access times (0.1-0.4ms or so) even Velociraptors are at least 5ms
Alternative controller sounds great too.

*takes a number and stands in line*

Interesting... not quite an Intel SSD, but I expect it won't cost £1000 either...

Glad people are ditching that shonky JMicron controller.

Can't get too excited at the sub 100 speeds, but 400?! Wow. What would that be like in RAID0?! I'm hoping the glut of manufacturers jumping on the SSD bandwagon should result in notably lower prices by the end of the year.

I am hearing it will be around 300 + VAT (probably less...)

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400MB/s read speeds

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I bet this get's the 'dominator' name tag as that speed is very impressive and might make me move from traditional storage solutions.

Bit pointless having a 400 MB/s drive when SATA2 will be saturated at 300 MB/s... :rolleyes:

Edit: I guess SATA 6Gb/s will be along before these come out. Should be sometime this year according to google.

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Originally Posted by Fraz

Edit: I guess SATA 6Gb/s will be along before these come out. Should be sometime this year according to google.

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Yeah - along with USB 3.0 :)

But what about a multi-lane PCI-Express interface?

We where looking at buying some of those for our app servers.

Thing is you can get that fiber channel SAN stuff which is pratically as fast, for less cost!

Now avaliable as a pre-order

http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=952160

£326.54 Inc VAT

Come on corsair release a 32gb version :telephone:

interesting, thanks for this post. SSD here i come! :P

TBH the performance doesnt warrent the price, dissapointed in corsair for release such a slow drive at this price.

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Originally Posted by DR

Now avaliable as a pre-order

http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=952160

£326.54 Inc VAT

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FAR to slow for that price.

Most people don't need 128GB of fast data. the MLC Intel stuff at 80gig is about that price and twice as fast.