Corsair Force F40 CSSD-F40GB2 2.5" MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

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The Corsair Force F40 transfer speeds are as advertised with a tiny bit of Pre-Setup know-how essential to reach those speeds however. ATTO Benchmarks place it at about 280mb/s sequential read 270mb/s sequential write. Well worth the money! Went on sale three days after I bought my initially one. Secure eraseing the drive increases drive performance from the out of box read/write speeds.Will grab a second a single for raid now that they are on sale!

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Boots windows 7 64 bit in 33 seconds. Thats cold boot. From nothing at all to desktop.Best size for a basic OS set up and applications, with a handful of gigs to spare. Did not incorporate two.five inch to 3.five inch bracket. I emailed Corsair and they sent me a bracket for free of charge!! A++ service!

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I place this as a 3rd drive in my primary gaming Computer, with a Raptor 150GB drive for the OS and a WD Caviar Black 640GB for other stuff. I only put my Planet of Warcraft files on this drive ྸGB!). The objective was to strengthen load times (max settings, 1920x1200, 400+ addons), and load instances did indeed increase significantly. Although WoW character load times enhanced considerably (from 45 seconds to 20-25 seconds in Dalaran), I guess I was hoping for an even higher improvement. This drive is terrible for items like file copying, and it does quite badly in most benchmarks (with 4k alignment, safe erasing, and so forth etc), but it does what I bought it for, so I can't truly complain. I did neglect to send in the rebate in time (within 25 days of purchase), so that sucks becoming out that ฮ. I'd most likely hold off for a few much more generations if I did it yet again. This isn't a terrible drive for about 贄, but I wouldn't say it's worth any additional than that.

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quite quickly, certainly! I like to believe the F40 name was offered in relation to the F40 Ferrari for speed :P no mounting kits or screws. the case i used this in didnt have anyway to mount a 2.five" drive so i just lined it up to the side of the 3.5" drive bays for floppy and put two screws in. the drive is so light that the weight no supported on the other side will under no circumstances have a negative impact from hanging no cost.

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Worked as described with no matters. Just the size of 40GB. I'm left with about 6.five GB cost-free on my Windows 7 installation. If you're concerned about disk space, go with the 64 GB. Win7 overall performance is blazing rapidly in any event.

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The drive is as rapidly as advertized. It booted my linux technique in under four seconds. Randomly fails to wake up from sleep, logs say it can't read from the difficult drive. Can't return for a refund to new egg or corsair! This is a recognized concern with corsair F series (take a look at the forums), the concern has been reported with lenovo thinkpads and macbooks. I can confirm it occurs on my thinkpad x100e. So far all corsair has denied it is their fault but says they will "look into it".If you have a laptop don't take the possibility, go get another SSD. Manufacturer Response:We are sorry you are seeing this situation with your Force series drive. We are not denying fault or blame. We totally anticipate this predicament to be resolved rapidly as soon as we acquire a firmware update from SandForce. We apologize for any inconvenience.

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Price tag, it was 贉 when i purchased it.Reads and WRITES quicklyCorsiar reliability Did not come with mounting brackets for a 3.five bay Ideal Cost, great organization. RAID- was a breeze with my ASUS board.All Sata are backwards compatible, they will just run at the lower speed. I purchased a board with SATA 3gbs, these drives barely reach that so its perfect.Can't locate the TRIM support, but I only installed games on these so a format won't be an concern.

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Purchased 4 of these. I have them in raid . Extreamly rapidly. Fastest i have ever installed Windows on a box. I don't have any tricky numbers from testing, but windows boots rapidly 16 secs. BF2 loaded boards really slow with two raptors. Now I am usually the first in the space. four may be more than kill but I am incredibly pleased with the genuine globe final results. Price is a small high for 40gig

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I got this on sale with a mail in rebate and for the price I paid I am extremely happy. The performance of this drive is amazing and there is a noticeable boost in my efficiency in CS5 when using this drive as a scratch disk. I'm positive that my boot times will also lower if I decide to boot off this disk. Corsair's site states that the force series of drives comes with a two.5 to three.5 adapter for use in a typical challenging drive bay. This was a selling point for me simply because I did not want to order a reducer. However this is not the case. For some purpose I received my drive in the corsair packaging but nothing besides the drive itself was included. This is really frustrating and a small difficult to comprehend. This is a 5-egg item even with the lack of the reducer which is supposed to come with it.

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This thing is quick, I am receiving about 200MB/s every single way. 7 Ultimate installed in about 10 minutes and boots in about 15 seconds, such as POST. No bracket... Mine is double sided taped to the bay. No frills or tough copy of any manuals or anything. Assists keep prices low I suppose. Low power consumption, excellent speed, good for laptop or desktop and plenty of area for a OS boot drive. No bracket? C'mon...

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Super Silly Fast! Low wattage consumption. A small expensive still... This will give your old single core and lower GHz processors new life. Working with two of these in my network at household. 1 is on a sempron thats pretty much 8 years old and another on a new APU Zacate HTPC setup. Stellar. Cold boots HTPC in ㅄ secs. Makes issues snappy.

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Installed on a couple of computers for the neighborhood library. Image cloned worked fantastic. These drives cut the boot time by 2Ǚ. None however. Windows XP works superbly on these drives.

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Rapidly, low cost Don't believe any positive critiques from folks that have owned this item below a month.This complete product line suffers from a defect in either hardware or firmware.Vital is unresponsive.Common scenario is that with a number of ssd's installed, some or all go missing from time to time.This has been ongoing for months - Crucials forums are full of posts about the similar issue across most of their Sandforce drives.I think they went to marketplace too fast with these, trying to beat out the competition. Unfortunately, drives this smaller are usually boot drives or utilised in raid arrays, and neither application can tolerate the disappearing act as might be somewhat acceptable if it were a long term storage drive.I wouldn't care that significantly if my media drive went away each now and then, but half my raid array? No I have not rma'd my drives.That's the only solution Important appears to have these days.Instead, I have more or less relegated them to use where speed is much more essential than reliability.They claim to have new firmware that will be released Genuine Soon Now.What is troubling is that last time I checked, they nonetheless had been not admitting a fault in the item.New firmware won't fix the concern - unless they've been lying all along about the defect.So now I'm in the position of hoping that they are liars.

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run rapidly two in raid fly boot rapidly couldnt not get to work at all with my old asus rampage formula board as boot drive would work fine if i added them to my set up and formated them in window tryed perform weeks to get them to perform talking on forums to tech support but gave and upgraded to ASUS P7P55D-E Pro and they function for about a week in raid and 1 has gone negative now cant appear to get it to do anything Read forums on Corsairs web page to make positive your board works with them took 3 weeks to find out mine doesnt and absolutely nothing i can do till asus updates bois

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rapidly boots DO NOT Acquire if you program on making use of in a method that you want to S3 sleep/standby. Your machine will crash on resume. There are a couple of users that have not experienced this issue but if you check the corsair forums, you'll see it's littered with complaints because corsair has left their customers up a creek... Would not suggest buying any item from a manufacturer that doesn't back their errors. I bought a samsung to replace this and "miraculously" it works as expected! Manufacturer Response:Firmware revisions have corrected this concern for a vast majority of our users. Any person still experiencing concerns must get in touch with our Technical Support utilizing the link beneath. We apologize for any incovenience.External Link(s): Corsair Contact Page|

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Excellent Drive! Super Quick Read speed. Write appears to be about the identical as normal rotational mediums. Definite efficiency enhance! Also not noisy like my old WD raptor. Also Lightweight and compact so can use for a laptop as effectively (even lighter weight than laptop HDD too)! only 40GB, which is adequate for boot drive but not for significantly storage Wish I had an array of these as storage disk!

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Rapidly. Win7 64 recognized instantly. Want yet another one :) No bracket, price for some and no bracket Want to raid0 a pair so i'm waiting for an additional sale.

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Super fast in 2x Raid . Windows 7 boots in 20 seconds. Receiving 560MB/s read and 480MB/s write on Intel ICH10R controller. none for now For folks who complain about mobo not supporting the drive - do a investigation before getting this drive rather of giving less stars for your stupidity!

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Put this in a windows xp box to speed up Virtualbox virtual machines it suited the job. Incredibly fast. Too high priced and tiny to be component of a typical develop item. Either less costly, or a lot more capacity at that price point.

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-Super Quickly Boot-Great Install Times-Just Works -None So far so good. Good cost for SSD performance on a spending budget. Sandforce driver is a plus. Naturally isn't as superior as the larger sized SSD, but compared to the competition in this size range clearly the very best. Really Pleased overall!