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and new beginnings and drivers in a battle for the SSD-ominance

The pace of development in the world SSD is surprisingly impressive, as each generation of SSD controllers delivered a substantial increase in performance and reliability, while at the same time, we saw the price drops flash as a stone. This is a good time to store and access data, of course, but we also saw the market dominated by a trio of SandForce SSD controller Marvell and Indilinx, with different providers who apply their own drive firmware settings to the other. Although these drivers are all very sweet, fed us beyond seeing two new Samsung and Corsair units arrive this month, with both new SSD controllers. None of them has made a giant hole in the SandForce / Marvell? Read on to find out!

Corsair GTX neutrons will stick through half a controller new link.

neutrons GTX Corsair SSD is the first to arrive at the Laboratory sporting a new eight-channel controller of a company called Link A Media Devices (lamd for short). The driver promises top performance I / O, especially in a multitasking environment, making it a unit specifically designed for hardcore fans, which is you, as you read this.

The GTX uses neutrons MLC 24nm Toshiba toggle mode NAND flash memory, and includes enterprise-class technology designed to improve reliability. It also supports the Trim command uses the Windows collection and routine wear-leveling and garbage to help maintain performance over time. The controller uses a microcontroller ARM multicore lamd, and connects via a SATA 6 Gb / s.

premises is a unit of 7 mm thin, so it fits any laptop or Ultrabook, and if you want to stick in your PC, Corsair offers a bay adapter 3.5 inches. It also has a metal frame, which gives a rigid feel surprisingly light, while maintaining at the same time.

During the test, the reference GTX posted impressive numbers in all areas, making a grand entrance in this reference table. In tests sequential read average 435MB / s, which is okay, but not transcendent. Their sequential write speeds, however, it is the second best record we've tested, losing only to the Samsung unit, and that by a hair.

When the workload has increased by 32 orders in a queue, the GTX relatively well, but was unable to follow the SandForce drives Patriot equipped and Intel. In our real world PCMark Vantage simulation, the score GTX reached the second fastest time, behind the new Samsung. In general, the only area where it was significantly delayed largely in the queue controller 32 workloads.

The GTX is an impressive record, and can not wait to see if other manufacturers jump on the bandwagon lamd. Although the Samsung Pro 840 steals his thunder a bit, Corsair SSD news is still one of the fastest I've tried.

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Not as fast as Samsung 840 and some readers SandForce.