Corsair Ultra Fast 256GB SSD Sneak Peek

Face it, the Solid State Drive (SSD) industry is still small compared to the mechanical hard drive industry. The big players such as Seagate and Western Digital (WD) are still firmly rooted in making mechanical hard drives. Ever since Intel came out with its own SSD’s which used their own in-house designed controller, it blew the competition out of the water who were still using the JMicron controller. Since then, manufacturers such as OCZ, Corsair, and Supertalent have been trying to come up with newer and faster SSDs to compete with Intel.

Recently HotHardware.com got a sneak peek at an upcoming Corsair 256GB SSD which will be named P256. It features a 3.0 Gb/s SATA interface, double stacked memory chips, Samsung S3C29RBB01-YK40 controller and 64 MB of on-board cache memory.

When put through the grind on HDTach, the drive averaged just over the 200MB/s mark on the read speed, with average write speeds of 169.1MB/s, .1ms random access, and a 248.2MB/s burst speed. That’s pretty respectable when compared to Intel’s SSD’s.

This drive will be shipping to distributors this week and you should be able to purchase ne early next week for about $749.

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