Corsair Force SSD Series Thread

Anyone here running any of the Corsair Force Series SSDs? I recently ordered the F120 (arrives on wed) but am now seeing that there may be some BSOD issues with certain chipsets when resuming from sleep mode. I wanted to know if any fellow M17x or R3 users were having any issues with theirs so i can save myself the headache and return it once it arrives for something more reliable. Thanks

 

Reliability of all Sandforce based drives are basically the same..Which means they are pretty much hit or miss. They can work without fail or they can arrive dead. They can also just suddenly fail 1 day without warning. Of course failure rate differs and there are some BSOD issues but I believe this is situational and there can be no way to tell if yours will have the problem or not. If you want reliability you should go for either crucial or intel.

Hope this helps. Cheers.

 

Thanks, that's pretty much what I've concluded. While Sandforce controllers are pretty darn fast, they seem to be lacking in reliability.

 

Yup, I myself was planning to get a Vertex 3, arguably the "best" SSD out there, but being a sandforce drive, the reliability is questionable at best. I'd say go with Crucial or Intel, the performance difference with SF drives are very minute anyway. In real-world testing, we're talking about a second or 2 witj loading time differences which is what matters most anyway as well as multitasking performance and response time. Having said this, all SSDs have very similar performances with these aspects. Only the sequential speeds differ fairly widely and even with the wide difference, it's still negligable considering the reliability gap with SF drives. Only file copying speeds will be hindered, which a regular user does very seldom, especially considering the sizes of SSDs, not much data will/can be transferred anyway.

 

I have Corsair SSD's...Don't buy them, I am surprised my set hasn't failed yet. Corsair is such a POS low-quality company.

 

I'd say go non-Sandforce if you don't wanna worry about your drive failing at any moment..Go with intel or crucial..At least you'll have peace of mind.

 

Why not o.o Been running for 2 weeks now and nothing wrong yet, system is fully functional/operational in ~10 seconds Compared to what I had before, could barely launch up an app until like 25...

 

Thanks for the feedback guys. Might just hold off a bit to see if Crucial drops the price on the c300 since the m4 is out. Seems like prices are for SSDs fluctuate on a weekly basis. I was going to just pick up a Momentus XT to see how that worked out, but might aswell save the $100 bucks for the real deal.

 

I say try Momentus XT. I was very impressed by it.

 

Anyone recommend the Kingston v series? $129 after rebate.. I know they are running JMicron Chipsets, but the reviews seem to show that it is an much more improved version than the crap they released a while back.

Kingston SVP100S2B/96GR SSDNow V+100 Solid State Drive Kit - 96GB, SATA II, 2.5, Upgrade Bundle Kit at TigerDirect.com

 

Nice deal. It actually uses the Toshiba version of the JMicron controller. It's a pretty fast drive, see here: Intel SSD 510 Series 120GB Review > Benchmarks: Real-World Applications - TechSpot Reviews

 

and a pretty reliable one, I should have bought this instead of the F120 that I have now, while the problem is not the company but rather the controller, SF 1200 is pretty much terrible from what I can see.

I have BSODs if I sleep the notebook

I have the drive hang, if there is some more intensive read and write, and this happens in the vertex 3 as per anand

its darn fast that is for sure, I have swapped a 320g 5400 rpm samsung drive for this one, and I must say that the difference is there, but sincerely I would have gone with a different controller if the budget allowed, I was aiming for a 160g x 25m, but it was out of the budget, it would cost me 500 USD

 

Too bad. Have you tried updating the firmware?

 

So it comes down to this. The F120 arrives today, I COULD give it a try and just return it back to BestBuy if it dies out on me. OR I could save myself the headache and either go with the Momentus XT or the Kingston. The Momentus is obviously the best choice from a GB/$ standpoint and might be OK for me since I tend to use the same apps over and over, however that may not always be the case in the future. If i go with the Kingston i'd be more limited with the SSD space, but i plan to keep my 320GB HDD in the 2nd drive slot as well. What to do.. lol

 

Even though it's not the most reliable SSD, there are a lot of people that never have a problem with the Force. Might be worth a try.

According to the french research the failure rate of the worst Sandforce drive is about 4%.

 

its on the latest available

 

I had a Corsair F60, that was RMA'ed. This was due it dying after 1 month of usage. The laptop won't detect it, neither does plugging it to my netbook. I have ruled out that the F60 just bonked itself 6 feet under. Waiting for another replacement, but I lost a bit of trust with Corsair drives now and went for a Crucial C300 which has been doing amazing so far.

Even made a thread about this:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/sol...torage/566476-spoke-too-soon-corsair-f60.html

 

Well I tried the F120. The damn thing was freezing all over the place so its going back. The system did boot up faster and was overall much quicker, however its hard to justify the speed improvements @ $239 for a 120GB drive. I'm really not getting the warm and fuzzy on SSD just yet, so as a compromise I may end up going with the Momentus XT until prices drop and storage increases.

 

I have the F60 for 6 months now. No issues what so ever, the drive has been rock solid! I have a ton of applications on it while most of my data resides on a standard drive. My rig stays ON 24/7 and seeds stuff.

Hope it helps someone.

 

I got the Momentus XT. Honestly I cannot tell a difference between the F120 and the XT when launching and running apps, they are both pretty darn fast. I guess the only difference will come into play when copying huge files etc. Overall I'm pleased with the performance for $100.

 

Corsair Force 6 Gbps models announced:
http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,824967/Corsair-announces-Force-Series-3-Solid-State-Drives/News/


Corsair announces Force Series 3 Solid State Drives
Corsair today announced the Force Series 3 family of solid-state drives. Force Series 3 solid state drives will be available worldwide this month from Corsair's network of authorized retailers at a suggested retail price of 139 USD for the 60 GB model, 219 USD for the 120 GB model and 499 USD for the 240 GB model.

Corsair announces Force Series 3 Solid State Drives (6) [Source: view picture gallery]
The newly announced Force Series 3 models take advantage of the new SATA 6.0 Gb/s (SATA 3) interface to deliver more speed at an attractive price. The Force Series 3 features the highest performance version of the latest-generation SandForce SF-2281 SSD Processor with out-of-box read and write speeds of up to 550 MB/s and 520 MB/s respectively, and an 85000K IOPS for measurably faster system response, boot times and application load times than SATA 2 solid-state drives - Corsair says. All Force Series 3 models are also backward compatible with SATA 2, and include an easy-to-use 3.5 inch adapter to allow owners of both desktop and notebook PCs.

"With the rapid market adoption of SATA 3, there's strong demand for affordably priced SSDs that can take advantage of the enhanced performance it provides," said Thi La, Vice President of Memory Products at Corsair. "Our new Force Series 3 SSDs provide the performance that enthusiasts demand, at price points approaching the current generation of SATA 2 SSDs."

"We are pleased to have our SandForce SF-2281 driving the leading-edge performance of the Force Series 3 family," said Jeremy Werner, Director of Marketing at SandForce. " Corsair, and its newest Force Series 3 drives, is poised to ride the wave of SATA 3 adoption by offering compelling pricing and enthusiast-level performance."

Force Series 3 solid state drives will be available worldwide this month from Corsair's network of authorized retailers at a suggested retail price of 139 USD for the 60 GB model, 219 USD for the 120 GB model and 499 USD for the 240 GB model. Note that stated capacities are unformatted and actual capacities will vary depending on the formatting and operating system used.

 

And I am waiting for the 240GB to come out. I wanted something peppier than the C300 I bought and I was not about to take a chance with Vertex. I think this will be the way to go.

 

Just so you know, going by hundreds of Newegg reviews the Corsair Force isn't more reliable than Vertex 2.

 

yes the problem is not hte manufacturer but the controller

 

I'm buying the 120GB version of the Force 3 as soon as it comes out. It's priced way more competitively than the 510 series 120GB and the Vertex 3 120GB. I wonder if Corsair is going to be using 25nm NAND in the Force 3.

 

It's already in the price lists here, it's not significantly cheaper than Vertex 3.

 

We'll see once it hits the US.