With the Force GT, Corsair has a Solid State Drive in its portfolio which is based on the latest SandForce SF-2281 series SSD processor. The drive also features SATA-III support and Corsair claims that the it can reach throughput rates of more than 500 MByte. Also for the IOPS the manufacturer promises sky-high numbers. When processing 4 KByte blocks the Force GT should be able to max out at a whopoing 85'000 IOPS.

Specifications / Delivery

Model	Corsair Force3 120 GByte
Capacity	120 GByte
Memory	ynchronous NAND Flash
Technology	SandForce SF-2281
Throughput	up to 555 MB/s reading, up to 515 MB/s writing
Accesstime (read)	< 0.1 ms
Life expectance	2'000'000 hours (MTBF)
Acoustics	no noise
Warranty	3 Years

Delivery

The deliver of Corsairs Force 3 SSD is sufficient. Included in the delivery you find a 3.5 inch adapter bracket. You wont find a copy of a disk imaging software and there also is no external case or SATA-III cable.

Page 1 - Introduction / Specs / Delivery	Page 7 - Random read KByte/s
Page 2 - Impressions	Page 8 - Sequential write ops
Page 3 - How do we test?	Page 9 - Sequential read ops
Page 4 - Sequential write KByte/s	Page 10 - Random write ops
Page 5 - Sequential read KByte/s	Page 11 - Random read ops
Page 6 - Random write KByte/s	Page 12 - Conclusion

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