English Articles 18 luglio 2011

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.

Di Tommaso Mele

HD Tune 4.60

HD Tune is an utility for hard drive and SSD with many functions, it can be used to accurately measure the performance of the drive, for errors finding, to check the vital status of the drive, to securely erase data and much more. The version we use is the latest available at the moment and it's 4.60. The program is available in two versions, a freeware (HD Tune) and a paid version (HD Tune PRO), in our case it was necessary to use the PRO version because it is the only one capable of measuring the writing drive performance.

In this test we highlight the remarkable performance of the Corsair drive both in reading and writing:

SATA II 3Gb/s