Big capacity without the ginormous price tag
Small capacity solid state drives are becoming a thing of the past, and we couldn't be happier about it. It's high time SSD makers started focusing on big capacities, which should in turn drive prices down while making more room for programs and games on primary storage drives. Credit Corsair for receiving the memo -- Corsair just added 480GB and 960GB capacity drives to its Force LS line.
They join existing 60GB, 120GB, and 240GB drives, and like those drives, the new capacities come in 7mm high enclosures that can be installed into pretty much any desktop or notebook PC with a standard 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch drive bay (an adapter is needed for the latter).
Performance specs are the same for both new capacities:
- Up to 560MB/s sequential read
- Up to 540MB/s sequential write
- Up to 84,000 random read IOPS
- Up to 88,000 random write IOPS
The Force Series LS 960GB and 480GB SSDs should be available soon and priced at $380 and $190, respectively.
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