KitGuru KitGuru.net – Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards
The Corsair Performance Pro 256GB SSD is an exceptionally fast drive which excels with incompressible data. The customised Marvell 9174 is a very impressive controller, able to deliver high levels of bandwidth with both incompressible and compressible data. It is reassuring to know that it doesn't matter the files you need moved … this controller simply won't compromise.
If you regularly need to transfer movies, photographs and music files, then incompressible data performance can make a difference. This is why the Samsung 830 Series 512GB drive, which we recently reviewed, makes such a great purchase. Some of the enthusiast audience are also concerned with overall Sandforce reliability too, which means that a variety of high performance alternatives are still very much in demand.
The Corsair Performance Pro 256GB is clearly faster than the Samsung 830 Series 512GB in the majority of our test results today, applications such as AS SSD clearly highlight the performance improvements.
The cherry on the cake is certainly the pricing – Scan are selling the drive for £318.30 inc vat, which means this is one of the most inexpensive 256GB solid state drives on the market today.
Pros:
- Balanced all round performance.
- Looks great.
- good bundle.
- Marvell controller has no reliability issues.
Cons:
- Not as fast as Sandforce with compressible sequential data.
Kitguru says: This is without doubt one of the most balanced high performance solid state drives.
Read a few reviews about this now, and it seems like a fantastic drive. I would opt for this or the recent samsung drives instead of sandforce, they have too many reliability concerns for my taste.
A lot of manufacturers seem to be distancing themslves a little from sandforce, OCZ etc. I think a lot of negative press surrounded the controllers and companies are looking at other units. This is very well priced. hopefully next year we see 256GB drives for under 250 quid.
Prices are slowly dropping, the ADATA 120GB is good value and this is almost as good. never owned a good SSD before, im still churning away with a shitty old 500gb HDD
My biggest concern with SSD is that they have only been doing the rounds a few years. when can we realistically start seeing failures and data corruption. The first 5 years will be the testing ground. im holding fire.
Corsair had a bad situation with their sandforce drives a while ago, moving to this controller is a wise move. Sandforce may be fast, but I wouldnt touch one with a 10 foot pole. I followed a thread on OCZ forum and Corsairs forum, a lot of people were burned badly. but at least both companies issued replacements. still, I would say logisticially they dont want a similar situation with sandforce again.
Capacity is too small. I hope that Corsair made 512 GB version.