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Product ReviewsCorsair Force Series 128GB 2.5IN SATA2 SSD Sandforce Refurb *30 Day Warranty
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 Rating: Review Date: 10/21/11  |
Cons: nothing
Pros: Very good for the price |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/20/11 |
Cons: Refurbished30-day warranty
Pros: FastReliable Comment:
I got it from NCIX's sister's company. Mine has been running for 4 month now. Performance is great. It's definitely worth a try. |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/15/11 |
Cons: - no mounting bracket (not that it really matters)
Pros: - cheap - fast Comment:
was a little hesitant to pick up a drive with only a 30 day warranty, but I've had 0 problems so far (knock on wood) and compared to my old HD loading times are much, much faster. |
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Rating: Review Date: 10/04/11 |
Cons: refurb but hey for that price who cares.
Pros: great price for a fast drive Comment:
this is the second force 120 drive i bought and i am raiding them its as fast as the 2 vertex 2's i raided, and 2wice the capacity. i went with a sencond gen ssd because of al the issues the new ones have been having. it seems like its the way to go for now. |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/24/11 |
Cons: None, yet
Pros: Speedy, Cost effective Comment:
Just put it into my Acer Aspire 8735G laptop, restored the factory image from DVD, works great, not one issue even during extnded setup and it's quick and for the price, a good deal. |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/10/11 |
Cons: none off the top of my head. Not SATA3 maybe?
Pros: Great reading/writing speed. Comment:
This drive reads so much faster than Regular Hard drive that now this should be the new standard for all new PCs. I'm currently using it on an E-SATA and it so far is working flawlessly. Highly recommended. |
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Rating: Review Date: 09/07/11 |
Cons: 30 Day Warranty
Pros: Fast SSDWorks with my 09 MacBook Pro without any problemsGreat price Comment:
Didn't buy it from NCIX but I did manage to get one when it was priced at about $1/gig. Works great in my 09 MacBook Pro and haven't had any problems at all. At this point if it failed on me I could care less, I got a taste of what an SSD is like for cheap. Everything boots very fast, haven't had any problems at all. No going back to a standard drive now.. SSD all the way! |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/31/11 |
Cons: if you dont have a disk drive, pain in the nutz to intstall windows
Pros: Fast as hell.SP1 installs in seconds Comment:
this was my first ssd, and i installed it in my asus eee pc 1215bzoom zoom. |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/21/11 |
Cons: 30 day warranty?
Pros: Great price/storageGreat speeds(compared to normal HD)Already using latest firmwareVery little prior usagePrice/Space Comment:
Decided to try this as my first SSD to make my aging computer more bareable. Was a bit scared since its a refurb but SSD life gave it 100% health with only 3 previous boot's and ~8 years till failure, not sure if thats the norm or if I was just lucky. Was pretty easy to install once I found out how to make the drive active and I've noticed huge improvements overall in load times. You can price match it pretty low but its a great value buy either way. |
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Rating: Review Date: 08/13/11 |
Cons: Tiny warranty.
Pros: Sale f 1$ per GB. Fast and energy efficient. Decent amount of space. Restart time 26 seconds on an A500-01V Toshiba, including BIOS and POST. Comment:
I was and still am kind of sketched out because of the short warranty. However, two months and still running without a problem! I am getting really optimistic about this, and the performance benefits have been amazing! No more hibernation for me! Just a quick boot up and shut down will do! |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/29/11 |
Cons: size.
Pros: much faster then any standard hard drive. Comment:
Worth the money, refurb or not. |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/26/11 |
Cons: - 30 day warranty
Pros: -Fast-120$-Corsair brand Comment:
Honestly... if it doesn't crap out on me in the next 20 days or so I think it should be fine. This is my first refurb SSD so I'll give it some time before I make the final decision on any future purchases. So far, great value for the money. |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/25/11 |
Cons: -None so Far
Pros: -Super Fast-No Noise Comment:
Just go this for my new rig, beat the hell out of a HDD!! |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/21/11 |
Cons: - 30 day warranty
Pros: - Fast- Cheap- 120GB Comment:
- fast, installed on a Lenovo i7 laptop and it is FAST- windows boots up in less than 12 seconds!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL8zjDXS8tI- chicks dig it when you tell them you have a big SSD |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/20/11 |
Cons: - No cable with this one (refurb)- Generic packaging
Pros: - Just like new- Same speeds/benchmarks as most review sites (AMD benches for me)- 100% life according to SSD Life Pro Comment:
Made the migration from a 30gb OCZ Agility II. Software used was Acronis True Image Home 2011. Works fine and no SSD problems with this generation (Sata 2) corsair force drives...and surprise! No problems for me either. A great deal at $119 (June/July 2011) for a 120gb SSD. Who cares if it is refurbished. |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/14/11 |
Cons: Slight high-pitched buzz during read/write
Pros: Light, small, blazing fast, great price Comment:
What can I say? Huge upgrade from a WD Green primary drive, and I would imagine also a big increase from a 7200RPM drive. 30-day warranty is good enough for me, my drive has been working flawlessly since day 1. I was skeptical on the open-box/refurb unit, but seeing as how we're nearly down to $1 per GB, I had to see what all the SSD hype was about. This is the most significant and noticeable "speed upgrades" in my desktop computing experience in my many years. |
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Rating: Review Date: 07/14/11 |
Cons: Died
Pros: FastLarge CapacityCheap Comment:
It was good while it lasted. After I did a fresh install, my HDD WEI score went up to 7.7! Booting to windows takes about 20 sec (3 times faster than my previous 60 sec on WD green).If you are feeling lucky then yours will probably last you till the next generation SSD comes out.Mine suddenly died after 6 days. While I was browsing, windows suddenly froze and I had to reboot. After reboot, the drive was not recognized in BIOS (HDD LED was solid) so I had to RMA it. Scary how suddenly SSDs can die... |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/21/11 |
Cons: wish the warranty period was a little longer
Pros: pretty good price on salesurprisingly fast Comment:
bought 2 on sale aroung $120. put one in my laptop and it is way faster than the Seagate Momentus XT I was using. can't wait to put the other one in my desktop |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/21/11 |
Cons: 30-day warrantyOutdated firmware
Pros: Price per gigabyte cannot be beat when on sale. Superb performance for standalone and RAID configurations. Tried and true Sandforce controller (unlike the new controller used on SATA-3 drives). Comment:
It would be nice to get a longer warranty with these drives (at least 90 days) but for the price these are great drives. Buy them on sale at $120/drive. Good thing is that SSDs fail fast if they are faulty so 30 days *should* be enough to know if you have a dud on your hands. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/17/11 |
Cons: none really. A vertex 2 class drive.
Pros: $117 price matched from DC Comment:
bought 5 of these refurb drives to be used in raid0. The raid unit is used to hold index data for our company. We have vertex 2 and these work just as well, the speed is exactally the same. Except for these ones are 1/2 cheaper. |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/08/11 |
Cons: 30 day warranty
Pros: FAST! CHEAP (for an SSD) Comment:
Bought it for my laptop. It's faster than my old hard drive. Windows loads and shuts down very quickly now. Only problem is there's no way to tell how much usage this drive has had in the past (before being refurbished). SMART reports the drive as being unused and using firmware version 2.0 so the firmware update probably reset the usage tracking.30 day warranty is scary |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/07/11 |
Cons: - Refurb?
Pros: - First $1/GB SSD WITHOUT MIR- Sandforce drive!- Very fast- 34nm flash Comment:
Very fast reads, compared to my 2x500Gb Seagate 7200rpm Raid 0: HD Tune - 110mb/s Read and the SSD is almost double at 200mb/s. Low access time and high read speeds help to reduce load times dramatically. 120$ for 120GB is a steal. It says refurb but there doesn't seem to be a reason for it to be.If it is on sale again, I suggest you buy one! |
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Rating: Review Date: 06/06/11 |
Cons: - impossible to tell why it was REALLY refurbished
Pros: - standard Sandforce SF1200-based drive- 34nm flash (http://www.corsair.com/blog/force25nm/) Comment:
I know from experience that a huge percentage of "refurbished" products were simply returns that could not be sold as new. In the case of computer hardware, there are also cases of people flashing incorrect BIOS/firmware. I am guessing that these drives fall into one of these categories and that they really weren't defective/broken to begin with.The good thing about these drives is that they use 34nm flash rather than the newer, smaller, and typically slightly slower 25nm-based drives. Picking this up on sale at $120 is probably the best bargain I've ever seen for an SSD. That's just $1 per GB for a Sandforce-based drive! I know that years from now I'll laugh about paying "only" $1 per GB. :)Even at $150, I would still recommend picking up one of these drives. |
Very great and fast ssd put 2 of this little boy in raid 0 in my alienware M17-R3 and load freaking fast .love it for the price . hope they will work for long