Corsair 60 GB Force Series Ultra Fast TRIM Supported Solid State Drive CSSD-F60GB2-BRKT

by Corsair

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6 x 4.8 x 0.3 inches ; 1.3 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B003N8DID2
• Item model number: CSSD-F60GB2-BRKT
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 21, 2010

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Accellerate your Computing With Force SSDs

Based on the SandForce SF-1200 SSD Processor, the Corsair Force Series SSD's are the ultimate performance drive. The Corsair Force Series SSD product line offers the highest performance in Read/Write speeds of up to a maximum read speed of 285MB/s and write speed of 275MB/s. If speed is what you are looking for and what you expect from your performance or gaming system the Corsair Force Series SSD's are the perfect choice. Your system will start-up faster, applications and games will load quicker and you will see a huge improvement in overall system responsiveness.

Product Features

• Fast Performance — Games, applications and files load faster, while your system is more responsive
• Compatible — Proven technology with installations on tens of thousands of systems worldwide
• Flexible use — 2.5" form factor for your notebook or netbook needs, or use with included 3.5" bracket for your desktop computer
• Silent operation — No moving parts means zero noise and high reliability
• Low Power — Extend battery life for notebook and netbook users
• Reliable — Over 1,000,000 hours mean time between failures
• Backed by Corsair — A respected name with a passion for great service and support

What the Experts are Saying...

"The Corsair Force F120 is one of the fastest SSDs on the market today in just about every category. The feature set is very rich with the high IOPS firmware, included desktop bracket and new 3 year warranty."

"The Corsair F120 can be described as many things but let's say for the sake of this conclusion that we were very impressed by the numbers it returned."

"In view of the performance exhibited by the F120, especially in scenarios with heavy loading, the Corsair Force F120 is recommended to the power user..."

Corsair Force Series SSD - Specifications

Specifications	F40	F60	F80	F120	F160	F240
Unformatted Capacity	40 GB	60 GB	90 GB	120 GB	180 GB	240 GB
Sequential Read Speed	280 MB/s	285 MB/s	285 MB/s	285 MB/s	285 MB/s	285 MB/s
Sequential Write Speed	270 MB/s	275 MB/s	275 MB/s	275 MB/s	275 MB/s	275 MB/s
Maximum IOPs (4K Aligned)	50K	50K	50K	50K	50K	50K
Form Factor	2.5 inch	2.5 inch	2.5 inch	2.5 inch	2.5 inch	2.5 inch
Interface	SATA II (3 GB/s)	SATA II (3 GB/s)	SATA II (3 GB/s)	SATA II (3 GB/s)	SATA II (3 GB/s)	SATA II (3 GB/s)
Warranty	3 Years	3 Years	3 Years	3 Years	3 Years	3 Years
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Why Upgrade to a Solid State Disk Drive?

Your System Runs Faster

With an SSD, your system will start up and shut down quicker, applications will load faster and feel more responsive, and even games will perform better as levels load more quickly. With virtually instant data access times, SSDs also outperform traditional hard drives in data lookup, file transfers, and other disk-intensive work.

Longer Battery Life

Using an SSD with your notebook or netbook means you'll enjoy longer battery life. Traditional mechanical hard drives consume large amounts of power to start up and seek data. With no moving parts, SSDs use less of your precious battery power, resulting in longer running times.

Tougher and More Durable

Because an SSD uses all solid-state electronics with no moving parts, it can handle shock and vibration far in excess of traditional hard drives and will survive wider temperature swings. For durability and toughness on the road, nothing outperforms an SSD.

Product Description

Based on the latest Sandforce controller, the Corsair Force Series Solid-State Drive offers stutter-free response, fast performance, cooler and quieter operations for your notebook, netbook, and desktop PC. For maximum performance for the ultimate system. The Corsair Force Series SSD product line offers the highest performance in Read/Write speeds of up to a maximum read speed of 285mb/s and write speed of 275mb/s. If speed is what you are looking for and what you expect from your performance or gaming system the Corsair Force Series SSD’s are the perfect choice.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Made my Windows 7 64-bit startup amazing, November 11, 2010

By 

Al (San Francisco Bay Area) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Corsair 60 GB Force Series Ultra Fast TRIM Supported Solid State Drive CSSD-F60GB2-BRKT (Personal Computers)

I've had this drive for about a month now and all I can say is wow. The moment I press the power button on my computer to windows being ready to use literally takes 12 seconds, and that's counting the bios posting! I installed Windows 7 64-bit on the drive and have a 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black as my data. Disabled hibernation and confirmed TRIM was active and was all set to go. So far no problems, I did move the temp directory to my platter drive along with the "Program Files" and "Program Files (x86)" folders. I did setup the bios SATA controller from IDE to ACHI as recommended. Go to the Corsair support forums and under the SSD section, they have a sticky post about how to optimize your F60. I am one very happy Corsair customer, but of course I also have this SSD drive housed in a Corsair 700D case, Corsair 850HX power supply, Corsair Dominator memory, and the Corsair H50 liquid CPU cooler. A Corsair fan boy? Maybe but I know good build quality when I see it. I'm sold on SSD drives but they're still expensive. Is a SSD drive a requirement for good computer performance? No, you can get a good quality 7200 or 10k RPM drive and still get very good performance. Pros for SSD drives are they run cooler, quiet and faster than any spinning platter drives out there. The big negative elephant in the room, price, price per byte. SSD are still in the early stages of product consumer mainstay but in a couple of years, the price of SSD drives will go enough and you will see them in more OEM computers.

Now my only real problem I have, waiting for the 1TB PCIe SSD drives prices to go down from on average $5k.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very fast, December 7, 2010

By 

dapr - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Corsair 60 GB Force Series Ultra Fast TRIM Supported Solid State Drive CSSD-F60GB2-BRKT (Personal Computers)

My only complaint is no-one said to me "Buy this drive now". These drives are very fast and noiseless. I purchased two and have them running in a raid 0 configuration with Gentoo Linux. Boot up time is +/- 5 to 10 seconds (the network configuration is the only thing that holds up the boot process), applications are near instantaneous, Open Office opens nearly instantly, so does the Gimp graphics package. Shutdown time is +/- 3 seconds. If your productivity requires speed ie, you cannot afford the time to make a cup of coffee while a large file loads, or for an application to start up, get these drives, they are worth every cent.

One issue one may pick up is this: because the drives are flash based, they rewrite sectors on a frequent basis and this may confuse SMART monitoring, Gnome keeps on telling me that one of the drives may be failing, Windows may have other issues so it is worth it to check these things before using them for a given application. However, if you need data on hand quickly, these are certainly the drives to get.

Hardware setup:

AMD 965 quad core CPU

16GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1333MHz ram

ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 motherboard

2x Corsair 60 GB Force Series Ultra Fast SSDs

Gentoo Linux

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Oh my!, August 20, 2010

By 

Matthew Pederson - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Corsair 60 GB Force Series Ultra Fast TRIM Supported Solid State Drive CSSD-F60GB2-BRKT (Personal Computers)

This is an amazingly fast drive. It has all of the features you would want from a current generation SSD, TRIM 285MB/s read and 275MB/s write. It does not get much better than this Corsair SSD. Also, at 60GB it is more than enough for Windows 7 and all the basic apps you would need. Enjoy! I know I am! :)