Today I will be doing a quick unboxing and comparison test of this high end SSD vs my current Crucial C300 64GB.
Corsair Homepage - http://www.corsair.com/ssd/force-se...20gb-sata-3-6gbps-solid-state-hard-drive.html
OCUk product page - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-024-CS&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1427
Tech specs from Corsair,
The outer packaging,
The contents within,
The drive bay adapter,
The SSD,
As you can see the overall finish of this drive is very sharp and is finished in a bright Red colour, the drive bay adapter is made from aluminum.
Test system,
Intel i5 2500K@stock speed
Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD4
Corsair Dominator GT DDR3 4GB (2X2Gb)
Palit Sonic GTX570
Antec High Current Pro 850W PSU
Akasa SATAIII cabling throughout.
The latest drivers and firmware were installed on the PC and drives prior to testing, tests were run three times and the best result picked.
Only the native Intel controlled ports were used as its well known that the Marvell ports offer reduced performance from this third party chip.
The only other drive I have to compare to is a Crucial C300 64GB which is a few years old now it also has relatively low write speeds compared to other drives released at the time from the likes of OCZ, but I believe that for a "gaming" system read speeds are much more important than write speeds and this is one area that the Crucial did an still does very well.
ATTO Disk Benchmark.
AS SSD Benchmark.
Crystal Diskmark.
Conclusion,
As you can see from new vs old, SSD performance has come on leaps and bounds since the early days, the Corsair offers fantastic speeds that are a great improvement, if you are still using a mechanical HDD then installing a SSD to run the operating system and as many applications/games you can fit on the remainder of the space will yield noticeable improvements in,
Boot time from power ON.
Loading times for programs.
PC responsiveness and feel.
If you are considering fitting a modern SSD such as this Corsair on a older motherboard with just SATA or SATAII then you will still experience noticeable gains over a harddrive (I did when I first got my C300 64GB and was stuck with a SATAII board), but you will then get another significant boost in speeds again when you make the switch to a motherboard with SATAIII ports.
Corsair Homepage - http://www.corsair.com/ssd/force-se...20gb-sata-3-6gbps-solid-state-hard-drive.html
OCUk product page - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-024-CS&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1427
Tech specs from Corsair,
The outer packaging,
The contents within,
The drive bay adapter,
The SSD,
As you can see the overall finish of this drive is very sharp and is finished in a bright Red colour, the drive bay adapter is made from aluminum.
Test system,
Intel i5 2500K@stock speed
Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD4
Corsair Dominator GT DDR3 4GB (2X2Gb)
Palit Sonic GTX570
Antec High Current Pro 850W PSU
Akasa SATAIII cabling throughout.
The latest drivers and firmware were installed on the PC and drives prior to testing, tests were run three times and the best result picked.
Only the native Intel controlled ports were used as its well known that the Marvell ports offer reduced performance from this third party chip.
The only other drive I have to compare to is a Crucial C300 64GB which is a few years old now it also has relatively low write speeds compared to other drives released at the time from the likes of OCZ, but I believe that for a "gaming" system read speeds are much more important than write speeds and this is one area that the Crucial did an still does very well.
ATTO Disk Benchmark.
AS SSD Benchmark.
Crystal Diskmark.
Conclusion,
As you can see from new vs old, SSD performance has come on leaps and bounds since the early days, the Corsair offers fantastic speeds that are a great improvement, if you are still using a mechanical HDD then installing a SSD to run the operating system and as many applications/games you can fit on the remainder of the space will yield noticeable improvements in,
Boot time from power ON.
Loading times for programs.
PC responsiveness and feel.
If you are considering fitting a modern SSD such as this Corsair on a older motherboard with just SATA or SATAII then you will still experience noticeable gains over a harddrive (I did when I first got my C300 64GB and was stuck with a SATAII board), but you will then get another significant boost in speeds again when you make the switch to a motherboard with SATAIII ports.
