Corsair Force Series 120GB SSD Review

There are many SSD controllers on the market now, and some have their own algorithms, focused on trying to minimize the performance cost of write amplification. There is a factor designed to measure write amplification, being the ratio between the number of write operations the SSD has to do and the number of write operations the host has asked. Recently, SandForce delivered its DuraClass technology, achieving write amplification factors below one, thanks to some data compression techniques and other algorithms that are kept secret. DuraClass also prevents the need for garbage collection, which many other SSDs require. All of that, without a memory cache.

So this is why there is so much hype around the SandForce controller. Some examples of SSDs using the SandForce controller are the Corsair Force Series, available for a few months now. The previous SSDs in the Force Series featured capacities of 50, 100 and 200GB due to the larger overhead, more suited for writing-intensive uses where a longer drive longevity is required. In a desktop environment however, a smaller overhead is more appropriate, providing the user with more storage capacity. That's how the 60, 120 and 240GB Force drives are born. Today Neoseeker examines the 120GB version of the Corsair Force SSD... NeoSeeker

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