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120GB SSD2.5 Corsair Force Series (One of The Fastest SSD's on The Market) for $238

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120GB SSD2.5 Corsair Force Series (One of The Fastest SSD's on The Market) for $238
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vid_ghost on 12/11/2010 - 16:02 arc.com.au (657 clicks)
Last edited 12/11/2010 - 16:04

Just ordered myself one of these and at $238 its the cheapest 120GB SSD drive you can buy.

Its also one of the fastest SSD drive's on the market.

Benchmarks can be found here http://www.anandtech.com/print/4010 and as you can see its almost at the top of the list in every test!

Review here > http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1338/1/

Overall its an awesome buy for the simple fact its one of the fastest and also cheapest 120GB SSD you can buy!

Drive also comes with 3.5" Bracket

Location: Sydney, NSW for pickup and can be shipped for extra charge.

FYI: They are out of stock but i placed an order over the phone and they said my drive will be in on wednesday!

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  • Black Hole on 12/11/2010 - 16:04

    How is this drive compared with OCZ Vertex 2 E Series?

    • aggregate on 12/11/2010 - 16:14

      E series is SLC. They are not in the same league. Comparing with Vertex 2, then are almost identical.

      • Black Hole on 12/11/2010 - 16:15

        Just found this http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=911&type=expert&pid=6

        Vertex 2 is almost identical but slightly faster.

      • sane on 12/11/2010 - 16:39
        +1

        Note, I think you're talking about the EX series. The 2E is very similar to the series 2 (slightly changed controller I think). It's basically the same setup as the Corsair, with slightly different firmware (the OCZ seems to be a tiny bit faster).

        The price is OK, but anyone thinking of getting this should also consider getting 2x 60GB SSDs and putting them into a RAID0 pair using the motherboard SATA RAID connections. Price isn't usually much different, but the transfer rates are doubled again.

        • ozdavo on 12/11/2010 - 17:24

          Vertex 2 100gb & Vertex 2E 120gb have identical hardware, but different firmware. Both have 128gb of nand, but the 2 "puts aside" 28gb for wear leveling etc & the 2E only has 8gb.

          On raid, true you will get much greater max read/write speeds, but you do sacrifice TRIM in Win7.

        • sane on 12/11/2010 - 19:17
          +1

          While TRIM signals can't make it through a RAID controller, the inbuilt garbage collection is pretty much as good, and 500Mb+ transfer rate isn't to be sniffed at in compensation.

          Plus, of course, you can buy one 60GB drive and extend later.

  • cameldownunder on 12/11/2010 - 16:06
    +2

    What about against the new Sandisk Hyb8GBHD10K768AZL

    • esq on 12/11/2010 - 16:14
      +2

      Good god man how do you pronounce that monstrosity?

    • vid_ghost on 12/11/2010 - 16:27
      +3

      I like how they are naming these drives :) just a simple approach, rolls right off the toungue

  • too_much_boost on 12/11/2010 - 16:16
    +1

    I bought a 60gb version of this same drive off ARC for $135. Seems ARC do have very cheap prices on a few of their SSD's. Their 120gb GSkill is quite cheap too

    Regarding performance, these drives are basically the same speed as all the other SandForce controller based drives

    • jv on 12/11/2010 - 16:25

      can these work on any motherboard with SATA ???

      • vid_ghost on 12/11/2010 - 16:28

        yes, they work on any motherboard that can also support SATA-300 hard drives, so thats almost everything these days.

    • vid_ghost on 12/11/2010 - 16:30

      That is a good price!

  • nfr on 12/11/2010 - 16:37

    How many years warranty?

  • totolee on 12/11/2010 - 17:46

    just bought a OCZ Vertex LE 100GB for $199 few days ago :), but this is also a good price.

  • minimonti on 12/11/2010 - 19:37

    Conditions of sale:
    "you have to spend a minimum value of $300.00 at normal listed prices from an ARC store first"

    Its hardly a deal if I have to spend $300 dollars to get it cheap.

    • Fred on 12/11/2010 - 20:07
      +2

      Me thinks that applies to the conditional price of $233.31, not website price $237.93 as above.

      • vid_ghost on 12/11/2010 - 21:22
        +1

        Yeah if you spend $300 you get $5 off the price, not worth it if you ask me but i just spent $5 more to get it for $238 and at that price its still awesome

  • monk on 14/11/2010 - 07:54

    Did they change the price?

    Mine now reads
    Website Price: $266.26 inc GST
    Conditional Price: $261.09 inc GST

    • vid_ghost on 14/11/2010 - 09:52

      Um yeah looks like they did but i ordered it at $237 they better not change the price on me when i go to pick up on wednesday!

      • vid_ghost on 15/11/2010 - 19:20

        all good they are going with the order price i placed, +1 to them for doing the right thing by me!

  • Maltopia on 17/11/2010 - 02:53

    Says $243.60 today. Postage to WA is $18 too for a single drive.

  • meno on 17/11/2010 - 16:36

    Says 279 today for me.

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