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Product ReviewsCorsair Force CSSD-F120GB2-BRKT 2.5" MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
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 Rating: Review Date: 08/24/13 |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/10/13 |
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Windows boots in beneath 1 minute with all my begin folder applications running. Lag on several of my higher end applications practically eliminated. See enormous improvement with Video editing on Sony Vegas 9I bought two of these so to see how they run in RAID- and all I can say is the efficiency is off the charts. Using PassMark's Efficiency Test 7 on Windows 7-64 bit with no Over-Clocking PT-7 shows Sequential Reads of 466 MB/s & 425 MB/s Random Seeks!!!!!!!!!!! Compared to my WD V-Raptors they replace 226 MB/s Sequential and 13 MB/s Random or NO CONTEST!!Cant wait to see what the Force gives me when I start overclocking the MB!! None: One could argue price tag, but for this level of technology & performance you want to play you've got to pay! Worth just about every $$ I paid!Running with Win7-64Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4PCore i7-9206GB Corsair Dominator GT 1866 TCATI PowerColor AX5970 2GB |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/06/13 |
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Quick as heck when new/recently safe erased. This drive has challenges, problems, troubles! The help is non existent. Fails to come back from standby/low energy states. This benefits in OS failures if its your boot drive. Could or may possibly not have quite a few other difficulties causing AHCI or Intelligent challenges. Overall performance degrades more than time (like a lot of other MLC drives). Don't install it to capacity or set up/uninstall issues to frequently since TRIM won't save you, it only assists.Finally, the firmware update utility is a total joke. I've by no means noticed such a trashy utility (fails in a million strategies). When it does operate, it will BSOD the machine indicating accomplishment. Of course a BSOD during its use, might or might not, indicate accomplishment. The only way to know is cross your fingers, energy cycle and verify the firmware version once more. Oh, and it only runs in windows, leaving linux/mac users in the cold. I suspect that if the utility was a self booting image, it would also perform greater, simply because it wouldn't be competing with windows for IO time. I have spent hours fsking with this drive in an try to make it function "correctly". From safe erases, to dealing with BIOS/AHCI/etc troubles. Problems that I strangely don't have with another SSD vendor's (one that also makes CPUs) items.Now that its performing as anticipated, and appears to be regularly detected in AHCI mode on my motherboard (after a drive firmware update), I have the S3 suspend problem, where the drive fails to come back from suspend effectively. If the machine goes into S3 by itself, at my 30 min setting there is a really great likelihood the drive won't come back when energy is reapplied. Rather the login prompt will seem followed by a BSOD.You would consider, that for a product with two main benefits (speed & power) the vendor would make certain that it typically performs appropriately in those two locations. |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/20/13 |
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When it performs, the increased functionality more than standard HDD's is extremely noticeable. Windows loaded somewhat more quickly than it does on my HDD's. Even so, applications loaded considerably quicker. Applications that took several seconds to load on the HDD's are practically instant on the SSD. My motherboard recognized the drive, I installed Windows 7, and was able to reboot many occasions and no issues. Once I went from a cold boot however, the drive is not recognized. I had to boot from the Windows disk and reinstall. I updated my motherboard BIOS (Rampage Formula III), and made sure I had the most current firmware for the SSD drive. All to no avail. I have observed a lot of others have the exact same challenges. I went to the Corsair forums and they weren't a lot assist. I really feel like Corsair has continued to send out buggy drives that they know may well not function as from reading the forums, equivalent difficulties have been taking place for a year and no fixes in site. I RMA'ed the drive with Corsair as the Newegg RMA had run out by the time I had installed it in my machine. Hopefully the new drive will perform adequately when it returns and this was an isolated instance.If it does operate I will update the rating to 4 stars. If it doesn't I will reduced it to 1 star and recommend no one buys it. |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/13/13 |
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Don't know, haven't gotten that far. It's gotten good critiques!!! 1. Drive hangs when attached to Gigabyte EX58-UD5 / ICH10R Bios F12 during AHCI bios scan. Tried distinct cables and ports. As well, cables and ports are working with standard HDD.2. 3.five" adapter plate does not spot drive in a normal position for a 3.5" drive enclosure. Consequently, you can\'t use any 3.five" drive enclosure system.I am making use of an eight drive raid array of regular 3.five" disks with this drive as boot....It would have been a sweet resolution to plug this drive into the raid enclosure....oh nicely.... Waiting for response from Corsair. On the other hand, I've been in R&D in the industry for 20 years.....I'm smelling a timing / firmware answer at the ideal with a possibility for a intermittent hardware test escape on the controller at worst....My hopes are not higher. |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/06/13 |
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Installed this as boot drive for my 3rd develop. Initial time using SSD and worth every penny. start-up time is extraordinary it is incredibly steady and never ever possessing to defrag is great also the cost would be my only con....120gb for 趽 isn't inexpensive. I told my girlfriend I spent 赨 and she said I was crazy, If she only knew |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/06/13 |
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Speedy, silent, low energy use. Higher cost per gigabtye. Developed terrible sectors after a couple of weeks. Making use of Arch Linux and have this as my boot drive. /tmp, /var/log, and the swap partition are all on other drive(s). Corsair gave me an RMA and I'm waiting virtually two weeks now for the replacement. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/23/13 |
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The units appears to be rapidly (when it works), but ... I installed this in a brand new HP 6550b ProBook. When starting up the notebook, the SSD is not detected. Pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del reboots the machine and the drive is detected. But this is not acceptable. Now I study posts on the Corsair 'support forum' indicating that the firm knows about the problem. However, they continue to ship the solution. I now have to return it AT MY EXPENSE in terms of both time and cash, simply because Corsair hasn't taken duty for a recognized defect/compatibility dilemma. This wasn't my initial Corsair buy, but it'll be my last. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/21/13 |
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unknown I was using an Intel G2 SSD which was operating perfectly. I just required more space. I expected a smooth transition to this drive but when I turn the pc on, all I get is the message "SMART command failed". I can\'t set up Windows on it. I must have stuck with what worked and just upgraded to a bigger Intel drive. Oh well, it's going back tomorrow. I did give them a chance. If you want reliability stick with the Intel. That's what everyone's saying and I locate out initial hand it's accurate. Manufacturer Response:This is commonly fixable with a BIOS upgrade to the motherboard to provide far better compatibility with the SandForce controller. Please speak to Tech Support and we will assist you.External Link(s): Corsair Get in touch with Web page| |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/26/13 |
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Extremely fast! Benchmarking with ATTO, i'm receiving 283 MB/s read, and 275 MB/s write! Astounding to say the least. Overall i'm happy with it, strong drive so far. none so far Make confident and set up TRIM if running windows 7 and delete the hiberfil.sys - will save you about 8GB's of precious challenging drive space. |
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Rating: Review Date: 05/01/13 |
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Amazingly quick. Boots windows in 34 seconds from button press. Got 282mb/s typical read and 271mb/s create. Quite close to specs and i can't complain. Nonetheless you ought to be utilizing AHCI to achieve these speeds. WEI is 7.four which i am extremely pleased about. None almost everything operates completely so far. When installing windows make certain to have the bios settings on ACHI and activate all the assistance for it in the bios so you do not get a bsod when awakening from sleep mode. Do your investigation ahead of buying this solution, after you do you will not regret purchasing this ssd. |
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Rating: Review Date: 04/07/13 |
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Flashed BIOS and worked correct out of the box. Smokes my old Raptor. Games load in a heartbeat. None, you really should know what you are receiving into. Leave this alone unless you have at least 1 brain cell to update your board. |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/23/13 |
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Extremely rapidly drive! BSOD on resume from sleep and personal computer freezes even if sleep is disabled. The only function around that I can see is to adjust at what point hard drive will turn off in the Power Selections in Handle Panel. Corsair does not have a fix for this dilemma and its annoying. I don’t typically create testimonials for merchandise but I located this difficulty to be so irritating that if I can save a fellow pc enthusiast the annoyance of this drive then it’s worth it. Like I stated in the pros sections the drive is very rapidly just lacking the support from Corsair and from what I read on forums this need to have been resolved by Corsair a lengthy time ago. |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/19/13 |
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Very good SSD even though it lasted. Died abruptly immediately after two months!I was working when all of a sudden Win7 froze (not anything that happens generally). Then I saw for the first time a BSOD on Win7.Immediately after rebooting the drive was gone, not even detected by the motherboard.Plugged it into my Linux box to make sure it wasn't the mobo, and nonetheless practically nothing.Quite strange for a device that has no moving parts to just die!No heat issues, practically nothing funky about the install. I've had excellent luck with most of Corsairs solutions, from RAM to PSUs. I hope this is just a a single time factor.I also hope to expedite the RMA method.I'll update with regards to that course of action. |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/12/13 |
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The new Sandforce controller. This drive is quite quickly. It comes with a 3.5 inch bracket. The best upgrade you can make for your laptop. The distinction involving an SSD and a mechanical hard drive is night and day. After you get a single of these you will under no circumstances want to go back to a mechanical challenging drive. No difficulties at this time. Get a single!!!!!!!!!! Expense but worth each penny. |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/09/13 |
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Lightweight, low energy, ripping rapid, glorious wonder joy technologies Expense per GB Appears like Windoze has problems with this SSD, along with suspect TRIM help for any SSD.Option? Run any Linux kernal two.6.three and larger and take pleasure in TRIM out of the box ;--) Additionally, create logs to memory and stay away from heavy read/write, fun, entertaining, get on the Linux train, woo, woo! |
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Rating: Review Date: 03/02/13 |
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I purchased some of these for my modest business' laptops, two two.5yo Thinkpad T61's. I also did a fresh set up of Win7. Compared to our prior 100GB 7200rpm drives and Vista, it was like night and day. Instead of waiting literally 15 minutes after bootup for a usable computer system, I now can boot or resume in much less than 30 seconds. Applications launch virtually instantaneously. It's seriously an remarkable difference, and keeps us from possessing to buy entirely new laptops for a while yet. Even although they are identically configured hardware and computer software-smart, the SSD seems to bring about one of the T61 laptops to BSOD when coming out of sleep. Hibernate works fine and is the present workaround. Yes the SSD firmware is at the newest version ƒ.). We also tried a number of a lot more workarounds listed on the Corsair website with no luck. The other laptop has no problems with sleep/resume. Took off one egg for this. Had to use a third-celebration T61 BIOS to allow SATA II. The stock BIOS only enables SATA I, supposedly for compatibility with particular Ultrabay devices. This is definitely a bottleneck. The hacked BIOS appears to work fine even though, and I do get far better benchmark benefits with it than I did with the stock.The Corsair SSDs are *just* slightly wider than the stock HDD, so I couldn't use the HDD tray. But just employing the rubber guides and attaching some tape to supply a pull tab worked fine. |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/20/13 |
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Really quick when working. Silent and robust. I installed this in a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop. Now the laptop has a BSOD crash when I resume from sleep. It appears this is a recognized problem on the Corsair forums and I wish I'd searched them just before buying it. It operates fine if I use hibernate rather of sleep but that defeats the purpose of spending on SSD for a rapid laptop. Manufacturer Response:We are working on a resolution for this problem with SSD manufacturer. We are sorry that this challenge is causing you to have a damaging expertise with our SSD. |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/18/13 |
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Quickly as advertised Have issue with BSOD from sleep/hibernate (Firmware 2.) Some assessment said that they didn't have any difficulty with their SSD, I think BSOD come about depends on mobo/system, it might not SSD issue. |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/10/13 |
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SPEED, came with a 3.five" adapter, was on sale, tends to make a good boot (OS) drive, anything feels faster, web browsers, explorer, boot instances. none, its a awesome upgrade, worth the value Desktop: Lian Li 7FNWXIntel Core i7-930 @ 4.ASUS P6TD Deluxe v212gb G.Skill DDR32x ASUS GTX 480 SLIDell 3007wfpCorsair AX1200PSUCorsair F120 SSD2xWD Black 1TB |
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Rating: Review Date: 02/09/13 |
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FASTTTT!!!! Holee smokes what a difference more than spinners. My goodness. Combined with Win 7 Ulti x64, 8GB of GeIL ram all in my HP m9077c core two quad makes for 1 screamin' machine! Only in use less than a week so far so time will tell reliability. ZERO Appreciate the truth they contain a bracket kit. Produced installation a total of about ten minutes. |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/31/13 |
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Exceptionally Rapidly. Even for an SSD. Scores a 7.7 on WEI and 1954 on Passmark X64. (According to passmarks benchmarks, this ranks with the 3rd fasted drive on the marketplace.) Nonetheless Hunting for one. Upgraded from a Kingston ssNow 64GB Drive. That drive was mediocre at best. This drive in reality feels like a worthy investment. |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/25/13 |
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Method boots into Win7 in 15 seconds. 'Nuff stated. No directions, but seriously, if you can't figure out how to plug in two cables, should you truly be allowed to very own a pc? Win7 requires care of some of the things you want to do for SSD drives like the TRIM feature and disabling defragmentation. In addition, I have a second HD for storage that is not an SSD, and I moved my user files (pics, music, downloads, video) to that drive to save space. Yes, SSD's are smaller. But they're for applications and your OS. Use another drive for storage :) |
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Rating: Review Date: 01/21/13 |
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matches rated speeds with ATTOincredibly quickly none |
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Rating: Review Date: 12/11/12 |
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It truly tends to make tricky disks look like a joke as far as read and compose speeds.Windows 7 boots in much less than ten seconds. No complaints. Purchase this and your difficult disc is just slow storage... Cost... |
Functions like a charm. Thankfully I didn't have any of the problems some other folks have had with it. Which leads me to believe it may possibly just be a handful of systems, motherboards, and so on that it has an situation with. General issue seemed to be with it BSOD when it attempted to come out of sleep mode. Haven't had that problem *knock on wood* None so far Cooler Master HAF 932 Black EditionAMD Phenom II X6 1090T three.2GhzCooler Master V8 CPU coolerASUS M4A89GTD Pro/USB3Corsair 8GB ƒx4GB) PC3 12800EVGA GTX 570 SuperclockedCorsair F120GBWD Black 1TBSeagate 2TB (used to be an external)Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold 1000W