Corsair has another decent drive to add to its growing arsenal, granted, but the competition has come out swinging. We'd recommend a price snip to make this drive stand out from an ever-competitive crowd.
Corsair has now augmented the Force LX series of SSDs with a 512GB model costing £200. Featuring the Silicon Image controller allied to 20nm NAND from Micron, this is a value-conscious drive aimed at, we imagine, folk coming to SSDs for the first time.
The Force LX is fine for most consumer users who want an SSD to improve boot and loading times and to offer speedy transfers of big files - sequential throughput is right up there with the best of the competition.
Digging deeper, it's not as impressive when pushing it to the limit in a heavily used state, intimating possible deficiencies in the controller when evaluated next to premium drives. More importantly, the Force LX lags behind the new, cheaper Crucial MX100 in our consistency tests.
Corsair has another decent drive to add to its growing arsenal, granted, but the competition has come out swinging. We'd recommend a price snip to make this drive stand out from an ever-competitive crowd.
Bottom line: good for sequential transfers, the Corsair Force LX's overall performance isn't quite as strong as the competitions'.
The Good
Fast sequential performance
Great upgrade from mechanical HDD
The Bad
Competition is cheaper
Erratic performance in used state
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Corsair Force LX 512GB SSD
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The Corsair Force LX 512GB SSD is available from Scan.co.uk.
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