Corsair Force GT 120GB, an high performance Sata III SSD

In this review we will test the current Corsair's high-end proposal regarding the SSD industry. Equipped with 6Gb/s SATA III interface, fully supported by the new SandForce SF-2200 controller series, the Corsair Force GT is currently the highest performing Corsair SSD with well 555MB/s declared read, 515MB/s write and well 85,000 IOPS with regard to the 120GB version we're going to test in this review.

Tecnical specifications

As for GT Force series, Corsair offers three models with different capacities, in particular there is the 60GB, the 120GB version (which we will cover in this review) and the 240GB version. For more information on Force GT models in the series, please consult the official Corsair website:

http://www.corsair.com/solid-state-drives/force-series-gt.html

The declared technical specifications of the model we reviewed are as follows:

Regarding performance, the manufacturer declares the following data:

As you can see from the table, the performances are very respectable, about twice the SATA II SSD and above those seen with a few SATA III SSD. Also we mention the high number of IOPS, well 85,000.

The manufacturer also declares an average life of the drive of about 2 million hours.

So we're going to test the drive using a variety of programs to measure performance in read and write of HDDs and SSDs. We will see, then, if the characteristics declared by the parent reflect the actual performance of the drive.