Corsair announces new 256GB solid state drive (Techspot)

[Drew Wilson]

Following a quiet entry into the solid state drive market back in January, memory maker Corsair is expanding upon its SSD product line with a new unit meant to offer both high performance and capacity. Dubbed the Storage Solutions P256, this 2.5-inch drive uses a Samsung MLC flash memory and its sophisticated controller combined with 128MB cache memory and Native Command Queuing (NCQ) support.

This translates to pretty impressive read speeds of up to 220MB/sec and write speeds of up to 200MB/sec. Additionally, according to the company, the P256 is more durable and reliable than hard disk drives, and has been shown in the Corsair Labs to provide up to 25 percent longer battery life in portable computers. As its name suggests, the new drive offers an ample 256GB of storage but that will come at the hefty price of $699.

The Storage Solutions P256 SSD is backed by a two-year warranty and should be available immediately from Corsair’s authorized distributors and resellers worldwide. You can read the full press release after the jump.

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Makes me think that my 200GB hard drive is out of date already!

[mountain_rage]

Solid state hard drives have almost hit a reasonable price point. If they ever get cheap enough, I'll raid 2 of them and use them for my windows partition.

[Signa]

I think a dollar a gig is the fair price. But we are getting spoiled with the dime a gig that normal HDDs are offering. It's so cheap these days that I've considered stopping buying DVD+Rs

[1cooldude]

I think a dollar a gig is the fair price. But we are getting spoiled with the dime a gig that normal HDDs are offering. It's so cheap these days that I've considered stopping buying DVD+Rs

I've got many drives either loose or in a portable case. I agree with you about the cost but you always worry about loosing some rare data due to a defective drive. For the past several years I've been slowly burning a lot of media and storing it in these large aluminum cases (1000 dvd's/case). I've got six so far.

[Signa]

That's why I haven't done it myself. Too costly all at once, and even more costly if something goes wrong. Also, you can take DVDs to friend's houses and play them there, where a HDD isn't going to be much help in many situations.

[1cooldude]

Two years ago this electronic place that was going out of business had these media centre drive enclosure on sale. You add an hdd and via S-video or RCA cables connect it to your tv. The box comes with avi codecs and one is free to watch it straight off the drive. The maximum size the firmware allows is 300GB (I've got a single 250 GB). The content I've got is a lot of live musical concerts and old movies.

[mountain_rage]

I've got many drives either loose or in a portable case. I agree with you about the cost but you always worry about loosing some rare data due to a defective drive. For the past several years I've been slowly burning a lot of media and storing it in these large aluminum cases (1000 dvd's/case). I've got six so far.

That is why you buy two identical drive and set them up in a mirror raid. One drive fails the second drive still has the data.

[Signa]

The idea is permanent, low-cost storage MR. The drive would eventually have to be removable, and doubling your costs for paranoia is silly.

[mountain_rage]

The idea is permanent, low-cost storage MR. The drive would eventually have to be removable, and doubling your costs for paranoia is silly.

Well you also get a 30-40% read rate speed boost, which is mainly why I have my system in a raid.

[Mels_Smileys45]

FUCK THIS SPAMMER IN THE BUTT HOLE PLEASE!


I can't wait to get me a solid state drive for this old PC! I think I will get one with my firsy full paycheck which I still have not earned since I went back to work. I am gonna get a much smaller one just to run my OS. Thats all I need it for and it will make my PC perform better than people who have spent a thousand dollars on a new PC. Seems like the PC market should die because there is no real reason to buy a new one unless you are the jealous type that can't stand for someone else to have a faster CPU, I know many of these people, or your current PC blows up. A solid state drive is a good little performance bump in the right place. I can't wait!

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