The name's Force,
SandForce. Corsair's making it kinda easy on us to spot
its first SandForce-controlled SSD, and there's no reason it should be bashful about it, given that the SF-1500 is currently
the fastest SSD processor around. The F100 in question has the SF-1200 onboard, offering a lesser 285MBps read and 275MBps writes (oh, such measly specs!), but that also means you might,
might, actually find a way to afford one. The
TweakTown crew took one for a spin recently and were happily surprised to find little in the way of performance difference between SandForce's supposedly enterprise-class SF-1500 and consumer-class SF-1200 -- both sped ahead of the
Intel X25-M G2 and Indilinx Barefoot-controlled drives. The speed conclusion was clear cut, and with pricing for the 100GB F100 projected to be as low as $400, the value proposition doesn't look too bad either. The 200GB variant is expected to land somewhere around $700 when Corsair's Force SSDs make it out to retail in a few days' time.
posted March 24th 2010 3:59AM
I hate to ask this elementary question, but what is the current average platter HD's read write speeds, because I'm used to things being judged by RPMs however .. SSDs do not go around.
@arvash
150MB read/write seems to be the best atm.
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2009-3.5-desktop-hard-drive-charts/h2benchw-3.12-Max-Write-Throughput,1012.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/2009-3.5-desktop-hard-drive-charts/h2benchw-3.12-Max-Read-Throughput,1009.html
@arvash My rough guess is about 80-100 MB/s for sequential read/write (maximum, it's often lower in practice). However, SSDs excel even more in random read/writes - hard drives can barely break past 1 MB/s. The improvement in random access is what speeds up the desktop experience the most.
@arvash most modern drives are in the 70 to 100 MB/s area for read and write, so SSD are somewhat faster, but it isn't the read/write speed that is the best thing about SSD's its the almost 0 ms seek time that makes it fast compared to normal drives,
on normal drives going from one place on the drive to another takes around 4ms
I'd like to add, that you would think from 4 to 0 ms makes or doesn't seem like it is a difference, but added up and in reality, it is a whole lot.
@nezzdk
4ms might be right for a SAS enterprise type drive. But your average 1TB desktop drive will be closer to 15ms.
@nezzdk It's more about random write speeds than access times.
@DanH random write is dependant on the access time and seek time :-)
Somebody still did not realize which performance metrics really matter.
Hint: Its not sequential throughput.
"and with pricing for the 100GB F100 projected to be as low as $400"
ah yeahh... no...
@Raio
Precisely; when is a 100GB drive at $400 regarded as being "low priced" ? Can you even buy 100GB conventional HDs anymore ?
@Raio
Amen.
Unless this is SATA 6GBps as well, I don't see why you would want to get this over the Micron RealSSD, which is priced similarly and faster in read.
@hang, unfortunately not, it comes with the old SATA 3Gb/s
@hang , the sand force controller is for SATA 3Gb/s only.
$4.00/Gb ... :/
Here is the link to the review: http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/3195/corsair_force_series_f100_100gb_ssd_featuring_the_sandforce_1200/index.html
Vladislav forgot to add it :)
Only that those speeds will only be reached if the Sandforce chip can compress data - else it won't reach anything near that write speed...
Videos and Audio for example don't compress well - they are generally saved in a compressed format by users.
Also, Sandforce has a tendency to randomly fail - at least in that "limited edition" drive from OCZ....
I wouldn't touch it with a pole.
I only know of failures with the media drives that were sent out. Once we all trashed the Vertex Pro II drives SF took a look at the firmware and had a DUH moment. The LE drives didn't ship with the same firmware.
This sand force controller is for SATA 3Gb/s
Damn commenting system tricked me again.
SSD's aren't going to get much faster until SATA-III becomes commonplace. Bigger and more relyable, yes, but they have hit the speed ceiling.
i have been looking for something like this. Must be the right thing in a video edit system.
Fastest SSD around? I thought most recent testing showed that the Crucial RealSSD C300 was the fastest around, for now... I believe it's even faster than the "force."
Too expensive. What's keeping the price of these things from finally falling?
Is corsair releasing a 50gb version of this, like OWC's Mercury Extreme?
Is corsair releasing a 50gb version of this, like OWC's Mercury Extreme?
Thank-you.
Anyone???
Is anyone aside from OWC making a 50GB version?
Thank-you!!