Customer Reviews

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

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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.

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

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! :)

Coming from SATA and IDE hard drives I must say that this SSD technology does give a system a boost in performance. I can load Windows XP faster than before and applications also load faster than before. Searching for files is much quicker as is installation of programs or software. I must agree that this technology gives better performance to any system but the pricing makes you think twice before one jumps into it. The pricing is horribly high. I bet that when IDE was overtaken by SATA pricing was also high. I have to say that this is good technology and will give your system a good boost in performance but makes you think twice when you see the $ you have to invest.

10/30/11 Update. One issue I have found with Solid States is that if you move files or folders to another hard drive it is a bit slower than the regular hard drives. Just a heads up.

I substituted this SSD for a slow 320GS SATA hard disk in a Toshiba Satellite T235-1340RD netbook system and a slow, ho-hum netbook suddenly was more than fast enough to run Windows 7 Pro with less delay than my quad-core desktop systems using 10,000 rpm Raptor hard disks. This is an extremely fast hard disk and substituted in an existing system with absolutely no problem after I cloned the old drive, including transfer of the Windows 7 OS, to it. Because of the TRIM features, it will defragment properly.

The "Force" series tests as quite a bit faster than older SSD models. It's an excellent rejuvenation for a too-slow portable system and seems to have improved battery life, as well, compared to the mechanical hard disk. Use the replaced mechanical hard disk for near-line storage with a small 2.5" USB external enclosure.

Corsair ships a metal caddy to adapt this 2.5" drive to a standard 3.5" hard disk bay, so it's usable with desktop systems as well.

I wasted three restless nights trying to get this to work. Wasted my time, finally went and brought an Intel SSD from BestBuy. Worked the first time I plug it in. Corsair SSD feels cheap plastic and performed like it too.

This SSD generally gets good reviews, but there is a definite subset of users who experienced BSOD's on an irregular basis. Very difficult to diagnose. I only feel comfortable attributing the problem to this SSD because I replaced it with an Intel SSD (X25-M SSDSA2MH120G2K5)and have not had a single problem.

I updated the firmware. I looked at every possible driver combination. Replacing this SSD with an Intel was a last-ditch effort to salvage a custom-built Intel i7/ASUS running WIN 7 Pro x64.

My suggestion: make sure you investigate whether this SSD has caused problems for your computer, chipset or motherboard. The advantages of speed and a good price fade quickly when you get increasing problems.

First of all, this is not a problem with corsair. corsair's ssd maker sandforce is having problem with stability.

Hiberate, sleep mode will give you random BSOD, so I am waiting for new bio to fix this.