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Corsair introduces Performance SSDs with 256GB P256

by Parm Mann on 9 April 2009, 09:51

Tags: P256, Corsair

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Despite the fact that Corsair's first-ever solid state drive - the S128 - offered read and write speeds of just 90MB/s and 70MB/s, respectively, we always knew that the high-performance manufacturer would up its game sooner rather than later.

Fortunately for those shopping for a solid-state upgrade, Corsair's bolstering its high-end SSD credentials tomorrow with the launch of the first drive from its performance series, the P256.

The drive, pictured above, offers 256GB of storage capacity and mighty-tasty sequential read and write speeds of 220MB/s and 200MB/s, respectively.

Couple that with a 128MB cache and a Samsung controller that supports Native Command Queueing (NCQ), and you should get what Corsair calls "outstanding, stutter-free performance".

All sounds impressive, but there's one little caveat - we're hearing an estimated retail price of around $750. Ouch. Nonetheless, we want one, and the kind folks at Corsair have obliged. Stay tuned to HEXUS.net as we'll be publishing our in-depth review next week.



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Does Native Command Queuing even make sense on an SSD?! Surely it's a rotating storage optimisation?
Can I please have it when your done testing it? :)
What controller does this use?
Fraz
Does Native Command Queuing even make sense on an SSD?! Surely it's a rotating storage optimisation?

Good question! it seems like marketing:)
Fraz
Does Native Command Queuing even make sense on an SSD?! Surely it's a rotating storage optimisation?

That's one implementation of NCQ but in general it's about giving the controller/or drive something to do while the rest of the drive is otherwise busy, i.e. optimising the order of read/writes. It's not specific to hard disk drive heads. In a hard drive it's the drive head that's the bottleneck and needs optimising, whereas in a SSD it's the controller that's the bottleneck.