july 2 2010 review by ocaholic
Conclusion:
The reviewers couldn't reach the claimed performance of 285 MByte/s sequential read and 275 MByte/s sequential write. The tests showed a peak of 250 MByte/s in seqential reading but on the other hand 288 Mbyte/s sequential writing,
which is even more than Corsair writes on its website. When writing small blocks this drive is one of the best drives tested. Its strength definitely is writing, sequential as well as random, it simply beats everything the reviewers ever
tested so far.
With the 100 GByte version of their Force drives Corsair shows an SSD that is able to convince with a very consistent performance. The SF1200 is a very sophisticated controller. The drive isn't exactly a bargain but if you consider
the performance you get, it is worth the price.
Compared to:
- Corsair CMFSSD-128D1, Corsair CMFSSD-128GBG2D
- Intel X25-M 80 GB, Intel X25-M Gen2 160 GB, Intel X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive
- Kingston SSDNow VSeries 40 GB, Kingston SSDNow V+ 64 GB
- OCZ Agility 128 GByte MLC, OCZ Apex 120 GByte MLC, OCZ Vertex 120 GByte MLC
- Photofast G-Monster 120 GByte V2 MLC
- Samsung SSD PM800 256 GByte MLC, Samsung SSD 64 GB, Samsung SSD PM800 64 GB
Test Setup:
- Mainboard : Gigabyte X38-DQ6
- Processor : Intel Xeon 3060
- RAM : 2 GB DDR2 Corsair Dominator 9136
- Video card : Gigabyte GeForce 7200
- HDD : Maxtor 160 GB
- OS : Ubuntu 8.04.1
Benchmarks:
iozone KByte/s, sequential write, Sequential read KByte/s, Random write KByte/s, Random read KByte/s, Sequential write ops, Sequential read ops, Random write ops, Random read ops.
