Saturday, June 19th 2010
Corsair Shatters SSD Affordability Barrier
Corsair, a worldwide designer and supplier of high-performance components to the PC gaming hardware market, today announced a new milestone in the affordability of Corsair Solid State Drives. For a limited time, Corsair's award-winning Nova Series SSDs are available for as little as $69.99 after mail-in rebate.
"The 32GB Nova Series SSD is great for streamlined boot drives, netbook upgrades, and even RAID configurations," stated Jim Carlton, VP of Marketing at Corsair. "The aggressive pricing of these drives makes the benefits of SSDs accessible to everyone."
Nova Series of SSDs have been well reviewed the world over for their excellent combination of performance and price. ZDnet said of the 128GB Nova Series, "...among its peers, the 128GB Corsair Nova hits the right capacity/price/performance point and so is our overall choice." And Computerbase in Germany stated, "The Corsair Nova was able to convince in all tests and did not show any weaknesses.... it is one of the most interesting SSDs on the market and has thus earned our recommendation."
Corsair's Nova Series 32GB SSD delivers read speeds up to 195 MB/s and write speeds up to 70 MB/s for outstanding system performance, fast system start-ups, quicker game and application loads for your daily needs. The built-in 64MB cache ensures smooth stutter-free operation for reliable performance. It is supplied with a three year warranty, and is backed up by Corsair's highly regarded customer service and technical support.
"The 32GB Nova Series SSD is great for streamlined boot drives, netbook upgrades, and even RAID configurations," stated Jim Carlton, VP of Marketing at Corsair. "The aggressive pricing of these drives makes the benefits of SSDs accessible to everyone."
Corsair's Nova Series 32GB SSD delivers read speeds up to 195 MB/s and write speeds up to 70 MB/s for outstanding system performance, fast system start-ups, quicker game and application loads for your daily needs. The built-in 64MB cache ensures smooth stutter-free operation for reliable performance. It is supplied with a three year warranty, and is backed up by Corsair's highly regarded customer service and technical support.
89 Comments on Corsair Shatters SSD Affordability Barrier
70$ for a 32Gb SSD is a wonderful price!!
$70 for 30 is a very respectabal price for a SSD with nearly 200mbps read. the writes are only 20 % slower then the fastest HDDs and only large sequential files.
this SSD is definetly worth its price..... might even be my next SSD or 2.
I can see myself buying one of those for my laptop. I run linux on it and it doesn't need storage space, at all.
So in other words, those of us living outside of the US of A will have to pay a lot more, great...
Still a good price though.
Looks like grabbing a couple of the 32GB's is a pretty good deal.
its more than enough for OS, office and such - and its shockproof, durable, fast, and silent.
Disclaimer : I'm old and senile
For those who don't want to grab the pdf ...
but for £50 i would actually consider getting a 32Gb - it seems amazing value when compared to other SSDs & not hard drives (bleh!)
The real advantage is that it loads OS X in 29 seconds (to usable desktop, not just to the wallpaper showing on screen), and shuts down in (quite literally) 2 seconds. Opening Photoshop was a horribly long process on the WD that inhabited my machine before, but now it's very fast.
The worst offender was loaded my XP VM, it could take upto 3 minutes to give me a usable XP system if I had left it in a suspended state. It now starts to a semi-usable state within about 20 seconds. I need to upgrade RAM to 4GB (I would have done that before getting the SSD, but my HDD decided to start clicking randomly, so I figured it was time for a change), and then I'll see how much faster XP VM loads
I would recommend an SSD to anyone that doesn't need a massive amount of storage, doesn't do too many writes, and instead needs massive read speeds, and reliability against shocks.
Basically, this tends to cover almost anyone with a laptop as a secondary machine or mobile work machine, and just anyone unhappy with their HDD.
I store all of my media on a 500GB portable drive now, which is used quite rarely, as my iPod has all my music on it already, and I tend to ignore watching movies and TV shows on my laptop.
32GB is a fine amount, and as suggested, if you need more performance and space, get two. For that price, you can probably get 64GB of space, and better performance than most 60/64GB SSDs, for cheaper too, even if you have to wait for the rebate.
If you can't nab this, the Intel 40GB SSD-V is also a great choice, and not much more expensive.
It takes 5 seconds to start system from that. For everything else, there is absolutely no difference worth mentioning.