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Corsair puts SSD's into high-gear with new 256GB P256
Kevin Spiess - Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 | 11:33AM (PT) 0 Favourites (0)

Performance SSD boasts read speeds above 200MB/s

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Solid State Drive or 'classic' hard drive? That's going to be a tougher question to ask yourself next time you build a computer, as better and larger SSD's continue to come out.

The newest entry to the SSD department is the P256 from Corsair. Here, the "p" denotates performance, while the "256" stands for 256GB's of space.

Corsair is saying that this SSD will be able to sustain write rates higher than Intel's top X25-E SSD model, at around 200MB/S. The P256 uses a Samsung S3C29RBB01-YK40 controller, and has a 64MB cache.

The price? Not cheap. All this performance will set you back somewhere around $750, according to HotHardware.

 

Source: HotHardware

Section: Storage

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    tallteen86 since Feb 2003 | Apr 9, 09
    So....the price is about 10x that of a standard 7200RPM HDD of the same storage size neh?

    SSDs are prohibitively expensive still, it seems...
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    shadowknight859 since Mar 2009 | Apr 9, 09
    I tell you what, Bring the Price down to less then that of a Brand new console then we'll talk.
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    Guest | May 1, 09
    great... I get to read a bunch of comments all pointing out the obvious "SSDs are XX times as expensive as a standard HD". Duh.

    Then don't buy one. It's not for you.
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