Corsair Case Study

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At Computers and more, we have reviewed almost every kind of product that Corsair offers except for the SSDs lineup. So this time Corsair has been generous enough to provide us with the Corsair Neutron GTX SSD for review. Now here I have the 480Gb variant for review, which is the largest capacity that is being offered by the company in the GTX series. Taking a look at the SSD we can see that the 480GB variant is identical to its 240GB in every way except for the price and capacity. The PCB layout is identical but ofcourse the NAND memory chips have gone from 32 GB to 64 GB, giving the drive a total capacity of 512 GB. But some portion of the memory has been kept aside for long term performance and reliability, and that's why we only get 480Gb …show more content…

The box has a red and black theme which looks very appealing. Inside you'll find the SSD in a hard blister pack, the desktop adapter bracket and a manual come pamphlet. Corsair has claims a maximum sequential read speed of 555 MB per second and maximum write speed of 511 MB per second. It has maximum random 4k write speeds as high as 85,000 IOPS. The Form Factor is 2.5 inch and the MTBF is 2,000,000 hours. Corsair is offering a good 5 year warranty for the product. The Corsair Neutron GTX uses a controller by the Japanese Link_A_Media (LAMD) LM86800AA. The controller is paired with 24nm Toshiba Toggle Mode flash and two 128MB Micron DRAM chips both DDR2-800 clocked at high frequency. One chip works as buffer while the other one stores map data. The Corsair Neutron GTX 480Gb offers a plethora of features and well why not. To justify the high price tag, Corsair will have to offer some great features to its users. Fast …show more content…

Or, mount it in a hard drive bay using the included 3.5” adapter. The 7mm form factor fits both standard notebooks as well as the latest generation of slim notebook designs. However, the high voltage consumption might lead your notebook to provide lesser hours of battery backup. Compatible with SATA3 and SATA2 The Corsair Neutron GTX 480 Gb SSD is designed to support the SATA 3 6Gb/s but is also backwards compatible with SATA 2. Long Life Span Out of the total 512GB only 480GB is usable keeping the extra 32GB in reserve to give enhanced life span aswell as consistent performance over a longer period of time in comparison to other SSDs. Load tests and Benchmarks Now, enough of on paper claims, lets dig in to see what the SSD is actually capable of. For load test and benchmarking I used the following setup: CPU: Intel Core i7 5960X Motherboard: GIGABYTE X99 UD5 WiFi RAMs: Corsair Vengeance LPX 2800Mhz 16GB DDR4 (4x4) CPU Cooler: Corsair H110 CPU Liquid

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