Corsair Force 40GB or Intel X25-V?

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Hey guys,

Im after a cheap SSD for a boot drive, and have been looking at both of the above drives.
Does anyone have any experiences with both, which do you prefer etc etc? :)
Currently running a Samsung F3 1TB and W7 Home Premium.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers
 
The only thing putting me off the Intel is;

Corsair:
- Maximum Read: 285MB/sec
- Maximum Write: 275MB/sec
- Sustained Write: 250MB/sec

Intel:
- Read: Up to 170MB/sec
- Write: Up to 35MB/sec

Hmm?
 
corsair R120gb disapearing from bios then it takes about 10 power on/offs to get the hard drive to show in the bios again then some times it would freeze on loading windows... only owned it for 9 days and its getting sent back to ocuk tomorrow.

system spec

ga-ex58-ud3r rev1.6 latest bios
6gb of corsair xms
i7 920 @ 4ghz
 
chronic86 said:
corsair R120gb disapearing from bios then it takes about 10 power on/offs to get the hard drive to show in the bios again then some times it would freeze on loading windows... only owned it for 9 days and its getting sent back to ocuk tomorrow.

system spec

ga-ex58-ud3r rev1.6 latest bios
6gb of corsair xms
i7 920 @ 4ghz
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Daaaaamn unlucky!
I might just snapp up the last Patriot Torqx 64GB at £88..
 
Hi there

The Corsair Force series have been a lot better for us but they are using Sandforce SF-1200 controllers, they are actually identical pretty much apart from stick to the OCZ Vertex 2E drives.

As to whether you should buy Intel, Corsair or OCZ I really don't know, its too close to call.
 
chronic86 said:
which unfortunately includes me :(
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Sorry to hear that mate, come and join in my group. I think I was on the lucky side when it came to my X128, it was quick and easy to install, but when it came to flashing the firmware it just would not have it. We all knew how important it was to get this firmware updated so we could have TRIm enabled but luckily another vendor of Corsair products took it back and updated the firmware for me as I was having a torrid tiem doing it myself.

I'm currently trying to save up some extra cash to get some OCZ vertex 2 drives for raid as my confidence in the Corsair drives have pretty much dwindled after reading all the horror stories from their forums.
 
I would get the vertex 2 40 its a pound, eleven pee more than the force drive and has good support and the latest firmware on it
 
I have not had a single issues with my Intel X25-V (laptop) and X25-M (desktop) drives. I suggest ignoring the "write" speeds if you intend to use the SSD as an OS drive. For instance, benchmarks showed my (returned) C300 SSD's to be much fatster than Intel's X25-M but in my system the X25-M felt faster for normal OS use. OS drives tend to do very little wirting and much reading of small files so read + IOP performance is key.
 
555BUK said:
I have not had a single issues with my Intel X25-V (laptop) and X25-M (desktop) drives. I suggest ignoring the "write" speeds if you intend to use the SSD as an OS drive. For instance, benchmarks showed my (returned) C300 SSD's to be much fatster than Intel's X25-M but in my system the X25-M felt faster for normal OS use. OS drives tend to do very little wirting and much reading of small files so read + IOP performance is key.
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Ahh ok :), will only be used for an OS drive, as my F3 is deathly slow :(

Looks like the Intel is the key then :).

Still not decided though haha.
 
Hi there

Intel as a boot drive for sure. :)

Corsair as a data drive.

Both are fantastic products and have made high performance SSD affordable to everyone if you don't have huge storage requirements.
 
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