Corsair Performance 3 SSDs support up to 480MB/s

Posted on Thursday, January 06 2011 @ 18:08 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
By the end of this month Corsair will introduce its Performance 3 Series solid state disks. These 2.5" storage devices use the Marvell 9174 SSD controller and feature a SATA 6Gbps interface. Each model has 128MB cache, there's trim and garbage collection support and the power consumption is 1W in idle and 2.5W in load.

Here's a look at the specifications of each disk:
  • 64GB: 365MB/s read, 110MB/s write

  • 128GB: 410MB/s read, 210MB/s write

  • 256GB: 480MB/s read, 320MB/s write


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