http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/ Engadget Comments for Corsair Nova, Reactor SSDs now available 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/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/Feb 28th 2010 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/
I agree with you buddy. I mean where is the incentive to push me to purchase and take SSD's into the realm of mainstream.

I had a Macbook with SSD and sure it was faster but it wasn't worth the extra £££ in my book. Surely some manufacturers could do deals to help bring down prices....]]>Feb 28th 2010 10:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/
You'll notice the performance specs on cheap 2TB storage drives are not that impressive, and it will bottleneck any midrange or higher current machine out.]]>Mar 1st 2010 2:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/"Speeds are NOT drastically different between the two..."???]]>Feb 28th 2010 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/
I'm glad someone else was bothered by that too: either they ARE drastically different, or one can have a slight edge, but not both.

article says: " Speeds are drastically different between the two, but the Nova does have a slight edge..."]]>Feb 28th 2010 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/
Why are you two bothered by that sentence? It says, there are not drastic speed differences between the drives with the Micron controller versus the Indilinx controller. It's just variety and customer preference in the 2 lines. Prices are for the 60GB of the Micron vs the 128GB of the Indilinx version.

Am I missing something?]]>Feb 28th 2010 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/Mar 1st 2010 2:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/prices will come down to a reasonable level.]]>Feb 28th 2010 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/Feb 28th 2010 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/Feb 28th 2010 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/
Program launch times are usually my biggest complaint anyways. If suppose you'd need a huge SSD if you worked with big media files in GBs all the time, but for usual purposes you can keep all your work, music and even movies on a HDD.]]>Feb 28th 2010 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/
I've got Win7 running off a 36GB WD Raptor Drive and still have gigs upon gigs left.]]>Feb 28th 2010 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/I'd probably install all my apps and games on the SSD then have a larger drive for docs, music, video, vacation pics..
especially now that alot of games and apps are digital download could store the install files on platter as well.]]>Feb 28th 2010 9:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/Feb 28th 2010 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/
...for direct use as an external drive w/o the need for an enclosure?]]>Feb 28th 2010 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/No, usually the usb port on SSDs are for updating the firmware. I can't remember hearing about any that lets you use it as a usb HDD like how you're thinking.]]>Feb 28th 2010 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/
Newegg has the Reactor listed as an SATA/USB device. I know that Filemate and some other company in the past have made such drives. But yes, usually it's just for flashing the firmware, so don't expect any drive that has a USB port to function as an external drive through it.]]>Feb 28th 2010 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/Feb 28th 2010 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/Feb 28th 2010 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/
Nope, Micron is using a Marvell controller.]]>Feb 28th 2010 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/
They didn't say Micron is using the JMicron controller, they're saying the Reactor series is using the JMicron controller, not the Micron controller.]]>Feb 28th 2010 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/
Either way, doesn't matter. OCZ has a $40 rebate on their Vertex line right now which has a better controller than both JMicron and Marvell. Lets see if I can do this first try... Illinix ? Damn. whatever http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227394&cm_re=ocz_ssd_vertex-_-20-227-394-_-Product]]>Mar 1st 2010 8:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/Feb 28th 2010 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/
I doubt there's been extensive price fixing. OCZ especially has been aggressive shopping around for memory - their Vertex series came out at what, $400? And now the Solid 2 with cheaper flash is at $315. They are still high margin products, according to OCZ's annual report, but costs have been cut. Remember in late 2008, less than a year and a half ago, the 80GB X25M cost $600, without TRIM. Now it's just $300 for the G2 - and Newegg even has OEM for $219. ]]>Feb 28th 2010 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/Feb 28th 2010 10:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/Feb 28th 2010 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/Feb 28th 2010 11:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/Get the Nova and shut down the Reactor.]]>Feb 28th 2010 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/the JMF612 doesn't have the stutter issues the previous ones had.]]>Feb 28th 2010 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/
Plus COrsair, Kingson Rip-off Consumers and Samsung.

Since most middle men like Corsair actually use Samsung's own devices and tweak it a bit and re-badge it as their OWN damn device. The gaul]]>Mar 1st 2010 1:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/corsair-nova-reactor-ssd-drives-now-available/Mar 1st 2010 2:21PM