http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/ Engadget Comments for Corsair's ultra speedy 256GB SSD sneaks out, hits the bench 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/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/Apr 8th 2009 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/Apr 8th 2009 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/Apr 8th 2009 10:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/Apr 8th 2009 10:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531]]>Apr 8th 2009 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/
With that said, if you can afford a SSD you can probably afford enough ram not to need a swap file.

Also remember magnetic drives have fairly big fail rates and when they fail often all the data can be lost.

Unfortunately the drive specs don't give the random write performance which is the most important issue for a SSD drive (It's not like your going to be copying large files from one SSD harddrive to another very often).]]>Apr 10th 2009 7:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/
A VelociRaptor 300GB is about half that price, at about $1.50 a GB.

Well, I guess if you got money to burn...]]>Apr 8th 2009 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/
$3/GB is fair, considering that 32GB drives have been selling for nearly $400 for the past few months (Intel X25-M)

I still wouldn't use one for archiving large files, but I'd install my games and extract my downloaded rar/7z/zip files to it.]]>Apr 8th 2009 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/Apr 8th 2009 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/
Why would you waste an expensive drive on an underpowered piece of hardware (laptop)? Sure you can fit this into a laptop and save some battery power while getting fast read/writes but I bet the majority of users are plugging these into hard core all out gaming rigs/desktops.

And of course, you can't fit a VelociRaptor into a laptop, duh....]]>Apr 8th 2009 11:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/Apr 8th 2009 3:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/Apr 8th 2009 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/http://www.google.com does. Check it out. It's a fairly new site, but I think it has a chance of catching on.]]>Apr 8th 2009 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/
Will have to wait for some good benchmarks to see if this is really any good]]>Apr 8th 2009 10:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/
also werent manufacturers to start trying to use TRIM for increasing a SSD's lifespan ?]]>Apr 8th 2009 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/Apr 8th 2009 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/Apr 8th 2009 10:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/Apr 8th 2009 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/Apr 8th 2009 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/
r u kidding me??? don't such a dick! y don't we just get rid of engadget altogether since this awesome new site called google has ALL the answers.

dicks like u should not have a computer.]]>Apr 8th 2009 11:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/Apr 8th 2009 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/
It was definitely more of a hassle to setup than your usual HDD. I had to plug it in as a slave on an existing machine, flash the firmware, partition it, ALIGN the partition (**huge**) and then you could install an OS to it... but if you're okay with and/or familiar with that whole process, it is well worth it.

My boot time is 22 seconds on Windows 7 x64 and the entire OS installed in 17 minutes. I bought it on newegg for somewhere around $270.

]]>Apr 8th 2009 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/Apr 8th 2009 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/Just awesome. If people did the 3 minutes of research instead of asking a forum that they might not come back to for the answer, it would save a lot of headaches.

Comparing the avg read/write throughput I would assume (however unassertively) that this uses dual jMicron controllers like many drives out there now. Dual jmicron controllers have the same hangup issues that previous single jmicron controller drives did, especially when multitasking. Look for drives with the Indilinx (sp?) Barefoot controller that has so far been proven to be far superior in terms of everyday usage.

The OCZ Vertex drive is one such drive.
READ this if you're interested in dropping the $300-700+ into one of these drives. Make an informed choice.
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3535]]>Apr 8th 2009 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/Apr 8th 2009 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/Apr 8th 2009 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/
well the thing is, i have no idea what to look for hence why i'm asking the question.
but thank for being so darn helpful.

i've heard that SSD is waaaaaaaaaay faster than HDD but am just trying to find out HOW MUCH faster. any1 know.]]>Apr 8th 2009 1:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531

It goes way beyond sequential reads/writes. ]]>Apr 8th 2009 2:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531&p=3]]>Apr 8th 2009 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/Apr 8th 2009 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/Apr 8th 2009 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/
COME ON, KID. Read the Anandtech article everyone's linked to a dozen times. It's a 31 pages analysis of SSDs with speed comparisons to HDDs. You need to seek out what you want in life-- don't just wait for someone to spoon feed it to you. Also, don't spell anyone as "any1". It makes you sound incredibly stupid.

Christ, this is why the Chinese are crushing us.]]>Apr 8th 2009 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/
@daniel
those links (all 3 of them) were added AFTER i asked the first time. and i love how asking a simple question turns into me waiting for people to spoon feed me. i hope none of your mates ask you questions, you might tell them to 'seek it out' or to check out google :)

ps, i think u should learn how to count FIRST b4 u tell me how to spell]]>Apr 8th 2009 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/Apr 8th 2009 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ssd+hdd+comparison
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I know you think this is a joke, but I'm actually trying to help you. Good luck.]]>Apr 8th 2009 7:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/corsairs-ultra-speedy-256gb-ssd-sneaks-out-hits-the-bench/Apr 9th 2009 9:44AM