Corsair is one of few memory manufacturers that has entered the Solid State Drive market without relying on the criticized memory controllers from JMicron. Corsair already has a 128GB model, but it uses Samsung technology, both memory controller and memory chips, and offered rather meek specifications at 90MB/s read speed and 70MB/s write speed. Corsair has now designed a successor that maintains a close cooperation with Samsung but offers higher numbers.
Corsair is said to launch the new drive with the name Corsair P256 where the numbers simply reflect the storage capacity, 256GB. The Samsung S3C29RBB01-YK40 memory controller sports 64MB integrated cache that allows Corsair’s MLC-based unit to achieve some really nice performance in synthetic tests, namely over 200MB/s read speed and close to 170MB/s write speed.
At least according to this HDTach benchmark posted at HotHardware, who also reveals that the price; $749. Corsair may very well have a worthy competitor to the popular Intel X-25 series, and hopefully we will hear more about this new Solid State Drive soon.
