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  • Tom80112 - Monday, January 10, 2011 - link

    I would like to know which of the Near-Term drives: Corsair P3, Micro C400, or Intel G3
    is the fastest as a boot drive in the 60GB to 80GB range..
  • Frallan - Tuesday, January 11, 2011 - link

    AFAIK the size wont matter with SSDs - it might even be faster with a bigger drive so you get a bigger so you have a wider bus to work with.
  • strikeback03 - Tuesday, January 11, 2011 - link

    Size does matter to speed, for the reason that often the larger drives can use more channels of the controller to write to more NAND devices. Companies often send out the largest (and therefore highest-performance) drives for review, leaving performance of the smaller (and more affordable) drives unknown.
  • Lifted - Monday, January 10, 2011 - link

    RAID is nice with the SSD's, but any word on Trim support for SSD's in RAID? Are we still waiting on RAID controllers for support? Is there a standard out there for them to follow?
  • probedb - Tuesday, January 11, 2011 - link

    Is TRIM actually necessary if the controllers have good garbage collection?
  • Mr Perfect - Tuesday, January 11, 2011 - link

    I wouldn't want to run them without TRIM. TRIM allows the OS to communicate to the SSD if a block of data is valid and should be kept, or of is invalid and can be deleted. If I'm remembering correctly, a drive that is only doing garbage collection has no idea what is valid data and will reorganizing blocks whether the blocks are valid data or not. Both improve performance, but a GC drive could be moving around invalid blocks without knowing it, wasting write cycles for no good reason.
  • Wiggy McShades - Thursday, January 13, 2011 - link

    garbage collection does exactly what trim does, but it only does it while the drive is idle. trim is just an on demand way of clearing data that has been deleted.
  • alovell83 - Monday, January 10, 2011 - link

    I remember reading an article that said the Q1Y11 was the quarter to wait for if you are looking for SSDs, while if you needed something immediately the SSD being reviewed was worth a close look.

    So, am I to take it that Q1 has turned into May? Please forgive my ignorance.
  • 7Enigma - Tuesday, January 11, 2011 - link

    Yup. With the Intel drives delayed and some of the other players also slow to release I think the time to buy would be Q2.
  • MeanBruce - Tuesday, January 11, 2011 - link

    The drive does have nice numbers, but Corsair SSDs don't seem to have ever been hugely popular. If this was a review for the newest Corsair Platinum Grade 92percent efficient Power Supply that plugs into the mainboard for temp and fan control via the new Corsair Link software there would be about 190 comments. I hope to see those Corsair Platinums out this Summer! It will fit so nice in the new Obsidian 650D.
  • GuinnessKMF - Thursday, January 13, 2011 - link

    For starters I was confused as to why you have a picture of a motherboard in this article (I'm assuming it has to do with the SATA cable being routed out of view). That said there's a really cool motherboard shroud in that picture, blacking out all of the motherboard that's not a connector with what looks like a similar mesh used around cables. Is that custom to their showcase or is that an actual product?
  • GuinnessKMF - Thursday, January 13, 2011 - link

    Upon further investigation it appears to be an ASUS Sabertooth P67 motherboard, which comes with that shroud by default ... or a motherboard similar to that.
  • crimson117 - Friday, February 4, 2011 - link

    These are now for sale (and have been for a few days):

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Sub...

    http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Performance-128GB-So...

    http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Performance-Solid-St...

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