Corsair’s New Extreme SSD Line Is Blazingly Fast

Corsair p256 and p128 are pretty close in read/write speeds as reported here earlier. The tests I have seen indicates 190/170mbs.

@MyNameIsTooAwesome: In the game Metal Gear Solid there was this whole part of the game where data used for the Rex was stored on three SSDs which needed to be cooled and heated in other parts of the levels in order to work. The game just made them sound so futuristic and cool that it helped build suspense at end of the game. Giz once posted an article about SSDs with a picture of snake and it confused some people, but others that played the game thought it was a nice little taste of awesome.

@joelydanger: I am deeply sorry not to share the fandom, but what does that reference mean?

There is a HUGE market for affordable SSD's,
surely someone will jump on that soon.
Give me 150gb at around 100 bucks with decent performance and I'm in. : )

Corsair is the best company.. Give me 2 To GO ...

Fuking shit...how long till we see this with prices normal people can actually afford...

@mikeborisov: That's not completely accurate. While the X25 drives cannot be touched in random write terms, other drives have already surpassed them (substantially) in random reads -- including one of Corsair's own.

Apparently, when you edit a comment, you can no longer embed some links.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/storage/2009/06/05/corsair-p256-256gb-ssd-review/6

This might be really geeky but every time you guys write something about an SSD I keep expecting you to use that Snake pic again. That was pretty awesome.

sure, reporting blistering sequential read and write speeds gets the girls all wet, but in real world usage, random read/write is everything. Nobody's gotten close to Intel's X25 yet, despite how (by gadget terms) ancient that drive is.

mikeborisov

I installed (2) Corsair P128 SSDs yesterday and put them into RAID 0 and all I can say is that I'm very impressed. I havn't done much benchmarking yet, but I ran ATTO Disk Benchmark a couple of times on them and with the array I'm pulling ~400 MB/s write and ~390 MB/s read. After work today I'll be copying my steam directory over to them (~35 GB :/) and seeing how L4D and TF2 do on them.

I'd like to propose that anyone who uses the term "Blazingly Fast" be flogged. Any seconds?

Narual

I'll wait until Anandtech reviews it. He's pretty much the only tech writer that actually knows how to review a SSD.

dtemp

Oh come on! After Anandtech's article everyone should be aware that sequential read/write speeds aren't everything and random speeds are a big deal.

The big deal here is that this is a Indilinx controller, so it should be similar to the Vertex. It'd be a lot more informative if we were told in the article (I had to go to Corsair's site) which controllers are in there. That's the primary thing that sets SSDs apart and best predictor of their performance. And I'd wish blogs would say the same for monitors - TN, PVA or IPS?

Ypoknons

@Jonhy: absolutly, just give it a couple of years...

@mikeborisov: Assuming your talking about the Intel X25-E that is, for the same price, even a little less, I acquired a couple of OCZ Vertex EX Series SATA II 2.5" SSD, and arranged them in a RAID 0 configuration on my MAC, and they are heavenly fast... to be honest, the Vertex II would have done just fine,what you need to look for is sustainable constant transfer speeds