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Corsair Force Series 3 SATA600

Based on 8 reviews

Excellent:

3
Good:

3
Average:

1
Bad:

1

Pros

Fast.
Comes with a 3,5" bracket.

Cons

Asynchronous NAND has lowered performance when dealing with incompressible data.

Reviews

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Excellent (3)
Good (3)
Average (1)
Bad (1)

By Real World Labs on April 16, 2012

What we have seen throughout is Incompressible Data is hard enough for a Sync NAND SandForce controlled drive to deal with and Async NAND magnifies the problem. We love that Corsair chose to implement the 2282 controller along with more NAND modules...

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By Tom's Hardware UK on March 01, 2012

What makes one SandForce-based SSD different from the others that appear to be just like it? We round up 10 models with 60 GB of capacity to explore the effects of NAND interfaces. We also stumble across some interesting data related to full drives....

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By StorageReview on December 29, 2011

The Corsair Force 3 SSDs performed as expected; in most cases the Corsair drives based on the SandForce SF-2200 controller with Asynchronous NAND came in close to the Force GT in heavy read activity, but slipped when heavy random writes were added to...

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By APC Magazine on November 26, 2011

Most buyers looking for a SATA3 SSD would expect the blazing fast performance of drives in the Vertex 3 class, and for good reason. Why else would SSD manufacturers bother putting such a speedy interconnect in place if the rest of the drive can't...

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By Tom's Hardware UK on November 23, 2011

Welcome to the sixth iteration of our highest-ranked SSDs at any given price point. We updated our recommendations to reflect the recent price drops on second-gen SandForce hardware. There are several good deals to be found for right about £150....

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By Hi Tech Legion on October 20, 2011

Solid state drive performance improvement over traditional platter drives is undeniable and widely accepted. Because of the premium price however, a lot of people are not so quick to jump with both feet into this technology. This is exactly why...

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By Legit Reviews on October 13, 2011

While the GT version is a faster overall drive, the Force 3 120 GB drive is a solid offering from Corsair and at a price that is hard to beat....

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By Ocaholic on October 10, 2011

Announcement: Despite the circumstance that the rating of a product is based on as many objective facts as possible there are factors which can have an influence on a rating after publication. Every autor may perceive data differently over time...

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By Metku.net on September 07, 2011

The Corsair Force GT is without a doubt one of the fastest S-ATA SSDs on the market today. It looks like it's going to stay that way, too, because it just about saturates the S-ATA 3 connection with its 500 MB/s write and read speeds. So if...

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By PC Authority on August 28, 2011

The Corsair Force 3 120GB was looking like a winner in our group test until a last minute recall...

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