Corsair Force CSSD-F120GB2-BRKT 2.5" MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

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Rapid, this is my 1st SSD and it's excellent, I can fit the significant games I play on it, as I don't play a lot more than a single or two at a time. Sandforce controller that's the best to date, and a price that's not in the SLC drive range. Cost, but you get what you pay for. It seems the gap amongst MLC and SLC drives is closing, if you're considering of acquiring an SLC drive but don't want to spend ũ,000+ for a usable size SSD this is a good option. Also there are tweeks you can do to maximize the extended phrase performance of this or any SSD that I'd advocate. Tech forums/manufacture forums have some info on that.

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worked right out the box, improved my start up time on win7 x64bit ultimate by 5 - ten secs. total of ten - 15 secs from 20 - 25 secs. i was utilizing WD Caviar Black series. Game load times slightly elevated. Softwares does open quicker. even though i do like the increased, i have this unsatisfied feeling that im not getting the full efficiency of this SSD drive because i only scored six.9 on Windows Practical experience Index whilst other people are obtaining 7.7 score. For some cause i wasn't in a position to place my SATA on AHCI mode since it would stay on black screen following saving the settings on my bios and restart, had to reset my bios in order to run it once again also i wasn't able to check if TRIM is activated on my windows 7 due to the fact it kept saying i have to be administrative to do this privileges. other than that i nevertheless like this SSD, i just hope i can fix this problem and have the complete prospective of this drive. right here are my rigs:Intel Core i7 920 @ two.67ghzMotherboard: EVGA E758 three Way SLIMemory: Corsair Dominator 6gbs DDR3 1600mhzVideo Card: EVGA Geforce GTX 285 1gbHD: SSD Corsair 120gb Force Series F120my rig is 1 year and 4 months old already. im considering that it has one thing to do with my board but not certain, i would like to get aid on this.

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None This product has brought on me to re-think about creating future Corsair item purchases. I'm incredibly green minded to save money so my computers getting in a position to reliably go into sleep mode is really critical to me. But not with this item. My method has crashed 100's of times coming out of sleep mode and this is even with the new bios I downloaded from Corsair. Corsair need to have not released this product till it was one hundred%. It's foolish and damaging to their reputation to basically blame the motherboard makers for their the poor bios support. I had to get rid of this SSD drive from my process so my process would be stable. I hate that I have a 跌 corsair product on my shelf that I am unable to use. I will pick a diverse firm next time.

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Got three of these babies for RAID . they smoke the old OCZ's I previously had. 128k Stripe size and according to AS SSD benchmark I get reads of 682 and writes of 520Boot time is much less than 20 seconds from cold boot The value....but you currently knew that...didn't you? Didn't get them sooner?

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Rapid, as fast as a sandforce-1200 controlled ssd must be. Bluescreens generally when resuming from sleep. This isn't an isolated dilemma as you can quickly locate pages and pages of forum threads outlining it.Additional high-priced than additional reliable competitor's goods. I thought I received a faulty drive when I started getting BSODs when resuming from sleep so I RMA'd the drive. Immediately after I lastly got my replacement I was livid when I had the precise similar issue again. Just to be confident I installed my desktop's SSD in the device and tested every circumstance in which the Corsair Force resulted in a bluescreen -- the other brand's SSD never ever bluescreened as soon as.I named customer help and demanded a refund, which they stated they don't do (Which I'm not certain is legal if the solution is documented as faulty). So I named again the subsequent day and this time the guy promised me I'd have my money refunded, so I quickly ordered a 120GB SSD of a competing brand. His manager then attempted to replace my Corsair Force with the older and now budget line of Corsair Nova SSDs, which I wasn't pleased with and denied. I told him that a representative told me explicitly that I'd have my dollars refunded, they haven't responded to any of my attempts to speak to them due to the fact.

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Can't inform you mainly because the drive became dud after installing windows 7 ultimate The initially time windows went into sleep mode was the end of this and a loss of stability. Initially reset Cmos and got it to reboot. Now it is intermittent startup at best. Really disappointed immediately after spending just about 跌 on a 120GB SSD Manufacturer Requires to pull its finger out. I have already spent numerous hours troubleshooting. Entirely unacceptable. Manufacturer Response:Users with problems are asked to go to our tech assistance forum or file a TSX case. We totally anticipate this problem to be resolved with an current or upcoming firmware update. We are very sorry you are obtaining this challenge.External Link(s): Corsair Contact Web page|

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Quick! Under Ubuntu 10.10 Drive has a min. write speed of 250MB per second. Max of 290MB per second and Typical of 260MB per second. I use it for running the OS and writing uncompressed YUV422 8-bit video data and 6 channels of audio all day long. Not a single hiccup. Not undesirable I would say! I personal two of these guys and have been running them for six months. Can we say SPEED!Enjoy them! None

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I enjoy this card. After installed it was noticeable. Its speeds blew my 300g VRaptor out of the water. I seen that it essentially produced my FPS a lot greater. When compared to my last drive this one particular permitted me to nearly max out my settings.A great get for certain. None The rates will go down at some point. In the future you will see. Identical issue goes when 10k Raptors had been going for the same value and they only have 74gb of space.

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• Excellent cost, somewhat speaking. • Read/Write speeds are as advertised• Functions with Gen1 Unibody 15" Macbook Pro, Snow Leopard• 2.five" to three.5" converter integrated • Unproven efficiency more than time in a Mac system• Nonetheless pricey, comparatively speaking Swapped out a Samsung based Summit SSD for this one. The peed enhance is noticeable. For Mac customers, examine out the Aja Technique Test application for a great HD benchmarking tool.

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On an AMD method, with an 800 series chipset, with the most recent drivers loaded, utilizing ATTO to benchmark, it pulls 277 read and 250 write. That's really great. Intel customers will prolly get close to the posted read/write as Intel's controller is a wee bit far better. None actually. Caught it on unique for like two bills.

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Buttery rapid in a new create. Win 7 will take care of most of the SDD tweaks needed for it. Just about every gigabyte of space is valuable at this size drive. I am extremely happy with the price tag/performance.

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Drive is so significantly faster than the 5400 rpm drive I had in my MacBook. It is the very best upgrade you can buy for your personal computer, and absolutely nothing will give you as huge of a speed increase. At this price it is a great deal. Following owning it for practically three weeks, I've noticed a slight drop in speed due to the fact day 1. It's nevertheless a lot quicker than a standard hdd, but it's kind of annoying that my iTunes and even my word open with a slight delay that wasn't there ahead of.My genuine issue with this drive is that if my computer system goes into standby, it will in no way come out of it. I have to hold down the power button to shut it off and restart it. I really like the drive, but I had a really negative experience with Newegg. Now, when you order a thing on-line, something at all, the benefit is getting in a position to have it shipped to any address. If I order a thing on Amaz-on and I want to gift anything to a buddy, I can send it straight to them. Even with PayPal all I have to do is add the address to my account and I can have stuff sent from eB ay to there. But NewEgg will not ship to any address apart from the address on file with your bank. I assume that is ridiculous. That is why I order on-line, so I can have it shipped other places. In reality, Newegg by no means even known as me for three days. They referred to as my bank when, identified out the address I wanted to ship to wasn't my billing address, and just left my item in the processing stage on the site. I had to leave the nation and required the drive ahead of then, and couldn't get it. I had to choose it up from micro-center. Immediately after numerous years of loyal service, newegg has lost me as a customer.

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Worked out of box, no problems. My son has it in his i7-930 quad, with all high finish parts and stated "Night and day distinction from his older quad". Did you hear that? It is QUIET! LOW Power Consumption. Technique does not hiccup! Purchased with Newegg discounts, what a deal. 120GB, wish it was more, but use lower cost rotational drive for overflow. Count on to see rotational media replaced in most systems in future, individuals will shed jobs in this sector as they are picked up in flash memory market place.

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Receiving the advertised results. Shipped with firmware v2.. Came with an adapter to fit it in three.five" bays, which was excellent for me 'cause my case is a couple of years old and has no 2.5" bays. Reduced boot time by around a minute and a half (Obviously, your mileage might differ. I have a fair number of items I have to run at boot, so my original boot time of 2min 30sec [pre-ssd -- reduced to 1min 05sec] may possibly be longer than yours.) None but. * Setting up AHCI has added the more BIOS at boot time, which to some degree counteracts (if only by a couple of seconds) the entire 'speedy boot time' draw of an SSD. If, nevertheless, you already had AHCI running, this won't be a aspect for you. * Still a little worried about a 120GB process drive.

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Efficiency speed as advertised.No BSOD, crash, freeze what-so-ever.Quite rapidly Win 7 boot.Came with 2. firmware, no sleep/stand by challenge.Got it at a good price tag also! Absolutely nothing is wrong with the device but Corsair could package it a tiny much better. Really feel insecure with a affordable paper box enclosing a 赨 SSD. Haven't try hybrid sleep or hibernation as I removed the hibernation feature to increase totally free space.

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Quick, no difficulties. The mounting bracket does not play properly with mounting rails that came with my case - the screw holes on the mounting bracket do not match up with the screw holes on a 3.5" drive and, thus, do not match up with the pins on the rails. No major deal, installed with screws. I ran some benchmarks and was not reaching half of the reported read/write speeds. It was nevertheless quicker than standard spinning HDDs even though (𞲨MBps). I changed the benchmarks read/write block size from 64K to 2MB and started seeing numbers much more in line with the reported max speeds (MBps). Drive is correctly aligned on 4K and is operating in AHCI mode with TRIM enabled.

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Sandforce controller. Really good to excellent read speeds, very high write speeds, even with out internal cache. The Intel X25s still smoke anything else at modest (ɠK) read/write block sizes, but this comes on incredibly sturdy with bigger blocks. Read speed at 64K and above consistently comes in around 280MB/sec. Incredibly nicely created. The three.five" adapter is simple but also accurately made containing all the mounting holes that a 3.five" drive really should have. They nevertheless haven't caught on to the will need for setup utilities. It wasn't a problem for me, but is for quite a few users. Upgrading from a HDD to a SSD ought to be as uncomplicated as popping in a CD and following the directions, regardless of the operating program you're using. The Sandforce controller performs some "mystery" compression-like operation on writes top to some amazing write speeds on large block sizes. However, until the benchmark programs catch on (incompressible file contents) to this bit of sleight-of-hand, the final results will be misleading. Regardless, subjectively it's nevertheless very rapidly - amongst the fastest readily available. You won't be disappointed. So far, no complications with standby (Dell Vostro 1720 notebook).

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Improvement over 7200rpm laptop drive I had ahead of. OS boots more quickly and VM's boot faster Not the improvement I was hoping for. Hangs on some processes now like logging in at boot. I haven't carried out any study to see if this is typical. I employed Acronis to backup my original drive which was the very same size. The copy disk was the only issue that worked. Benchmarks averaged about 40MB/s Write and 80MB/s read. Not even close to what was advertised as max but still an improvement, hence the three eggs.

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I have two of these drives in a RAID setup on an Intel ICH10 controller. I'm obtaining about 500MB/s read and 300MB/s write in Crystaldisk. In ATTO (the benchmark that Corsair makes use of), I'm acquiring 500MB/s read and write. Windows 7 boots in 13 seconds! I'm blown away by the speed and the silence is great. One particular of the SATA connectors on one of the drives doesn't accomodate the retaining clip on the newer SATA cables (the other drive accomodates this). Weird. I'm weary of the critiques here of drives failing following 4 months. I'm going to maintain my information backed up and see how reliability is in the lengthy term.

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7.7 windows knowledge indexTRIMTaking into consideration all variables, specially the read write, at the moment this drive is 越 for 120gb, and that's a very fantastic price. Not certain if I'm not seeking difficult adequate, but haven't been able to uncover a firmware updater, I've worked with OCZ SSD's ahead of, and I found theirs in 5 seconds. I'm certain its out there, just a pain to google. Use AHCI in BIOSIf your reinstalling windows from a spinning disk to a SSD, unplug the spinning disk 1st & then install, otherwise you'll misplace your MBR.

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This SSD drive is precisely as advertised, blazing rapid, so rapidly it could give you whiplash!I installed this drive and set it to IDE in the bios, booted the windows 7 DVD and did a fresh install of the 64 bit OS, once the install was completed I restarted the personal computer and went into the BIOS and set the drive to AHCI then restarted the personal computer, low and behold Win7 failed to boot, soon after researching a tiny on the world wide web I learned that Win7 needed a fix just before AHCI would function correctly. You can locate the fix right here ? http://support.microsoft.com/kb� <-- when the fix is applied spot you chair in the complete upright position, fasten your seatbelt, boot your computer and hang on mainly because you’re pc will be faster than it has ever been. None, if you’re possessing difficulties with the drive take the time to do a tiny study; you can come across a resolution for it. So before you contact tech support or RMA the drive, do your self a favor and save oneself the frustration of hours on the telephone or time lost due to an RMA, do a little reading… key phrases in your preferred search engine will be time properly spent, hence the fix I discovered for the AHCI boot issue stated above… Understanding is power. I hope the tips and link for the repair will enable the folks that are possessing troubles with obtaining this drive operating running Windows7, if you’re making use of an additional OS the repair may not function for you but the assistance still applies.My method is a bit dated but installing the Corsair SSD drive gave it a dam large boost in performance, just before the drive was install the windows index was 5.9 and soon after it went to 7.fourMSI K9 790FX motherboardAMD Phemon II 4X 950 Black Quad core CPU8 gigs AmpX HP DDR2 memorytwo ATI 4850 video cards in CrossFireXCorsair Force two.5" 120GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (Boot drive)WD 750 and 500 black difficult drives for storageWindows 7 64 bit UltimateCooler Master 690 case

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This is a excellent drive. I use it for my OS (Ubuntu 10.ten) and applications. The read/write times are pretty close to the advertised specifications. It has outstanding random IOPS efficiency. These SandForce chips are wonderful. These drives are swiftly breaking out of the SATA three.0Gbps barrier. Not a con of the drive itself, but read below. This drive is not detected on a cold boot with certain BIOS revisions. It mostly effects mainstream notebooks and desktops due to poor or old BIOS updates. The drive worked fine in my desktops (ASUS boards), but would not function in two various laptops I had. This is not a fault of the drive per se.

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really fast I place the F120 SSD in a Lenovo T510 W7 and have experienced the drive not found situation when booting a cold system and if it's placed in sleep mode = BSOD upon resume. The Corsair forum stated a firmware update would be out soon, 45 days ago. Still waiting October2010. I bought the F120 mainly because I recently bought the Corsair P256 and use it in a Lenovo X61 Tablet. There have been no troubles with the P256 beneath heavy use and it has made a distinction in productivity.

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Lightning quickly, improves laptop battery life, makes my compiles (Visual Studio) and virtual machines (VMWare/VirtualBox) fly None to speak of. Most importantly, I have Never had the BSOD + sleep/wake difficulties mentioned in other reviews I bought an additional since the very first was so excellent

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Amazing rapidly SSD. Issue when installed on my ThinkPad x201. Error 2100: HDD0 (hard disk drive) initialization error- on cold booting (from shut-down, warm booting is okay.