Intel has been the go-to guy for SSDs these days. While others are trying to bring the cost down or kick up the performance so high it costs a couple thou, Intel has been the one filling storage space in high-performance servers due to the drives’ reliability and high speed. But lovable memory maker Corsair is pushing out some drives that may hit Intel below the belt.
These brand new 256GB SSDs are yet to be fully tested, but a quick eval shows extremely promising results. In fact, the Intel drives get punished in write and burst speed, although read speed is comparable. Now, they’re likely to be more expensive, so it’s not a total KO or anything, but if you’re putting together an SSD-based server or workstation, you might want to wait for the results on this one to come back before you place your order.
Keep in mind that the name will be P256 instead of S256 when they go to production.
[image credit: Hot Hardware]
Devin,
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-Jay
I just love watching the SSD drive marketplace – the speed improvements, new product announcements, and price-cutting is as relentlessly fast as the drives themselves! The WRITE SPEEDS of the Solid-State disk *Press Release Market* is astounding… Now we just need actual shipping product to keep up with the marketing bottleneck. :)
HO THERE GO CORSAIR THE BIGEST THING INTEL HAS IS 160 GB SSD SOO I HOPE FUTURE GAMING CONSOLES WILL CHOSE SSD SOLID STATE FLASH DRIVE OVER SLOW AND BORING HARD DRIVES