http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/ Engadget Comments for Corsair joins SSD party with 2.5-inch 128GB drive http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/Jan 21st 2009 11:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/Jan 21st 2009 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/(I say between 600-750 because I don't what the next capacity is after 500GB)]]>Jan 21st 2009 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/Jan 21st 2009 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/Jan 21st 2009 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/Your less than USD $200 Seagate 1T storage raid 5 rig are fine for 99.999% of your usage.
Unless, you want to buy it in case of a earthquake.]]>Jan 21st 2009 3:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/Jan 21st 2009 7:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/Jan 21st 2009 12:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/Jan 21st 2009 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/Jan 21st 2009 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/Jan 21st 2009 12:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/Jan 21st 2009 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/Jan 21st 2009 12:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/Jan 21st 2009 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/Jan 21st 2009 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/not a desktop drive for heavy use]]>Jan 21st 2009 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/Jan 21st 2009 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/
Look at the G.skill titan 256 gb for $500. With almost 200 mb/s read /write.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/storage/2009/01/20/g-skill-titan-256gb-ssd-review/1

Corsair this is total failure.]]>Jan 21st 2009 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/
Yeah sure.... if we were in mid-2008 maybe. These are definitely last gen specs, (infact honestly worst then). A SSD of this offering should be priced at within the $100-$180 range honestly with all the new SSDs coming out with blazing read and write speeds.]]>Jan 21st 2009 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/Jan 21st 2009 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/
We are in the infancy of these drives, so they have their quarks. Hold off a little while and theory will become reality.
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Not necessary, you just have to spend some money... There are already a few different manufacturers with drives that are faster than any 3.5" 10K RPM desktop drive, and certainly more so than even the fastest laptop drives..]]>Jan 21st 2009 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/
]]>Jan 21st 2009 6:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/Jan 21st 2009 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/Jan 21st 2009 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/However, I would totally trust either. Backup people!]]>Jan 21st 2009 2:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/(longer than a seagate 7200.11 at least :P)

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Speed, reliability, quite and less heat are the significant leaps here.

I bought 2 cheaper SSD drives for a media center computers. I have 5 terabytes of storage on a windows 2008 server in my house. I use the SSD for loading windows and running the computers as extenders. Very fast start up, no noise and pretty much zero heat. A winner all around.
]]>Jan 21st 2009 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/Jan 21st 2009 4:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/21/corsair-joins-ssd-party-with-2-5-inch-128gb-drive/Because of the writing issue and near instant access of any part of it; SSD's (and flashdrives) don't need defragging either, and in fact should specifically not be defragged, so that saves pain for the user too since you don't need to keep an eye on fragmentation and do lengthy defrags to prevent system slowdowns like you have with classical HD's.


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