When dealing with data that can be compressed there is nothing like the SandForce controller to get the job done. Corsair went with the SF-2281 controller for both their 180GB and 240GB Force GT SSDs, but they chose a Marvell controller for the 256GB Performance Pro model. The difference in controllers shows up in Legit Reviews benchmarking, with tests involving compressible data putting the Sandforce drives well in the lead but with the Performance Pro drive providing much more consistent results and leading in real world applications. Read on to see if your budget and storage desires can be met by one of Corsair’s new SSDs.
"So, what have we learned from this little round up? First off, you can’t go wrong with any of the drives here. All feature very fast SATA III performance and come with a standard three year warranty. The Force GT drives promise read and write specifications of up to 555MB/s reads and 525MB/s writes. This is something we observed on the ATTO benchmark where highly compressible data was used. On other benchmarks, the scores were a fair bit lower as the SandForce controllers rely on real time compression of data to optimize performance and the referenced benchmarks used already compressed data. The 240GB fared a little better than the 180GB drive as higher density NAND tends to be a little faster along with slightly different architecture…"
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