Thursday, June 30th 2011
Corsair Announces Shipment of Force Series GT Solid-State Drives
Corsair, a worldwide designer and supplier of high-performance components to the PC gaming hardware market, today announced the first shipments of the Force Series GT line of solid-state drives.
The new Force Series GT is designed for enthusiasts who demand the fastest performance available. It uses the new SandForce SF-2280 SSD Processor, with native support for SATA 6Gb/s (SATA 3), combined with ONFI synchronous flash memory. Force Series GT SSDs deliver outstanding read/write performance and significantly faster system response, boot times, and application load times than SATA 2 solid-state drives, with out-of-box performance of up to 85K Random Write IOPS, read speeds of up to 555 MB/s, and write speeds of up to 525 MB/s. The use of synchronous flash memory makes the Force GT Series particularly adept at reading and writing non-compressible data, such as video and music files.
All Force Series GT models are also backward compatible with SATA 2, and include an easy-to-use 3.5" adapter for use in both notebook and desktop PCs.
"With the rapid adoption of systems with SATA 3 support, enthusiasts are demanding SSDs that can push the limit of SATA 3 bandwidth," said Thi La, Vice President of Memory Products at Corsair. "The new Force Series GT line delivers amazing speed under the most demanding conditions, making them ideal for high-performance systems."
Force Series GT SSDs are currently shipping to Corsair's network of authorized distributors and retailers worldwide and will be available in July at a US suggested retail price of $149 USD for the 60GB model and $279 USD for the 120GB model.
The new Force Series GT is designed for enthusiasts who demand the fastest performance available. It uses the new SandForce SF-2280 SSD Processor, with native support for SATA 6Gb/s (SATA 3), combined with ONFI synchronous flash memory. Force Series GT SSDs deliver outstanding read/write performance and significantly faster system response, boot times, and application load times than SATA 2 solid-state drives, with out-of-box performance of up to 85K Random Write IOPS, read speeds of up to 555 MB/s, and write speeds of up to 525 MB/s. The use of synchronous flash memory makes the Force GT Series particularly adept at reading and writing non-compressible data, such as video and music files.
"With the rapid adoption of systems with SATA 3 support, enthusiasts are demanding SSDs that can push the limit of SATA 3 bandwidth," said Thi La, Vice President of Memory Products at Corsair. "The new Force Series GT line delivers amazing speed under the most demanding conditions, making them ideal for high-performance systems."
Force Series GT SSDs are currently shipping to Corsair's network of authorized distributors and retailers worldwide and will be available in July at a US suggested retail price of $149 USD for the 60GB model and $279 USD for the 120GB model.
39 Comments on Corsair Announces Shipment of Force Series GT Solid-State Drives
Obligitory "I need 8TB of SSD for my OS" comment :p
i wouldn't have minded getting one, but my new pc was recently rma'd so i can't get one just yet ,as this old gal only has a sata 1 controller
And hell, my steam folder alone is 45GB, so the 60GB drive would just be big enough to fit Windows and my Steam apps, and nothing more...:shadedshu
and it's 267 euros here:shadedshu :ohwell:
And I have 22GB free!!!
My Steam folder is installed on my 1TB raid so iot takes up no space:
support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7710-tdlc-0426
Plenty of space for me, and all my programs are loaded FAST of the 64gb SSD :)
Oh, and not all of your programs load fast, any games you want to play load just as slow as a standard machine with a standard HDD because they are on a standard HDD. The primary purpose of my computer is games, so putting a tiny ass SSD in a machine just so Windows loads faster is doesn't help me on bit. I can wait the 30 seconds it takes Windows to load, I really can. My Steam folder alone is 45GB, and that isn't including all the games that aren't Steam games installed on my system. Brink is another 5GB, GTA:IV is another 15GB:eek:, Metro2033 is another 7GB, Mafia II is another 6GB. Not to mention the adobe suite taking another 8GB on top of that.
So for me, it isn't plenty of space, not all of my programs would fit on a small SSD. I know, I had a 64GB SSD. A week or two after installing it, when I reached the point where I had to uninstall a game from it before installing the next, I went "well if I have to uninstall and reinstall games each time I want to play something different, there isn't really any time savings is there" and I sold the stupid thing. For me 250GB would be the absolute minimum SSD size that would work for me, and I'm sure that is true of most gamers. And for the price for 250GB right now, I'd rather just put a bunch of Momentus XT drives in RAID0.
The OS and all my programs are on the SSD with room to spare.
But yeah, wait another 4 years till you can get a 1TB SSD, in the mean time ill cash in on the £80 SSD im using thats changed my PC in a big way :)
I would happily RAID a couple of SSDs to get the storage I need, but then you lose TRIM, and thus longevity.
I'll just save up until I can get what I want, and deal with my OS and productivity apps loading a little slower in the meantime.
Heres some benchmark reviews/links to look at:
www.anandtech.com/show/2614/14
www.anandtech.com/show/2527/8
www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=8998325
Anyways, if its such an important thing to have your games on an SSD, then get a 128gb SSD solely for your games folder and a 64gb SSD for your OS... thatll cost around £200 for both... You can still use your mechanical drives for Mass storage.
The main visible difference is really with the OS and other programs loaded into the OS on that drive... the difference is phenominal and there really is no waiting around which makes going onto my work PC a real chore thesedays!
Having your OS and pagefile on an SSD with low accesstimes makes a big difference in pretty much everything
Are these SLC or MLC ??? Companies need to put this important information on any SSD products.