Corsair readying Nova and Reactor 2.5-inch SSDs for release

Corsair has kept quiet on the SSD front here recently, but it looks as if it's about to ruffle a few feathers with two new laptop-centric drives. Fudzilla has dug up pricing information on two heretofore unreleased solid state drives from the company, with the 64GB / 128GB Nova and 60GB / 120GB Reactor both featuring the Indilinx Barefoot controller, MLC NAND and at least 64MB of cache. The Nova series is purportedly capable of hitting read speeds of up to 215MB/sec on both the V128 and V64, while write speeds are locked at 130MB/sec for the V64 and 195MB/sec for the V128. As for the Reactor range? Those feature 128MB of cache and a nice boost in transfer speeds, though the €151 ($206) starting tag doesn't do much for bargain shoppers. Hit the source link for more details, but don't get your hopes too high for a near-term release in the US.

[DoctarPeppar Posted Feb 8th 2010 10:07AM]

Nice! I love my SSD :)

[excelsium Posted Feb 8th 2010 10:13AM]

I think the new micron drives are a better value.. much more performance.

[Luffy Posted Feb 8th 2010 10:24AM]

It will be a holy day when SSDs reach $1 per GB :

[DanH Posted Feb 8th 2010 10:33AM]

Essentially just a rebadged OCZ drive.

[YpoCaramel Posted Feb 8th 2010 10:39AM]

@DanH Shrug. They all use the same controller and get the flash from somewhere. It's not like OCZ developed the Indilinx Barefoot.

[onlymyrailgun Posted Feb 8th 2010 11:54AM]

Man, back when MacBook Air was out, an upgrade that involves mostly the harddrive cost like almost 1000 dollars for a 64GB SSD... Here's praying that 1T will cost less than 500 dollars in 2 years.

[Gaqua Posted Feb 8th 2010 1:39PM]

Actually they are both just rebadged Indilinx or JMicron parts. Neither of these guys have their own controllers or fabs.

[ShadowSoldier89 Posted Feb 8th 2010 6:19PM]

is that a USB port O.o, an HDD thats also instantly an external, thats pretty sweet

some one remind me if thats been done before

[xaduurv Posted Feb 9th 2010 9:32PM]

we want MOAR SSDs!

And it's awesome that we have comments back. Now let's keep those Wilford Brimley jokes to a minimum :P