Corsair - Force F40 - 40 Go

The new low-capacity 40GB Corsair Force F40 is a stunner. Compared to other boot-only drives it blows the competition out of the water by retaining the high read and write speeds of its higher capacity brothers. In our real-world benchmarks the difference is amazing when you compare this drive against the Intel X25-V, which is in the same price category, but limited in write speed. It speeds ahead in our Productivity trace and soars in the HTPC trace, thanks to the 240MB/s write speeds compared to the Intel’s 40MB/s.

So ultimately, with the F40 you are investing in a extremely fast and reliable drive. The F40 being 40GB comes in at a lower price than the larger capacity drives out there. So for around £100 you are able to have a blazingly fast OS drive that comes with a decent 2 years warranty.

Raid 0 with Corsair F40 is delicious, if you have the funds, make sure to give it a whirl because we are confident you won’t be disappointed.

In our performance testing the Force F40 delivers very respectable performance which is basically on par with that of other Sandforce drives, except for two scenarios: Battlefield 2 Patch and ISO File Copy. Overall this means that the performance difference is roughly 10% compared to other Sandforce drives using 8 flash channels vs. 7 on the F40.

Best of both worlds? Not exactly, but the Corsair Force F40 is cheap enough, and fast enough to be considered if you are looking for an SSD on a budget. Before now there really wasn’t a viable option that allowed users to get close to the level of performance associated with solid state drives.

Can a small drive with great speed hit the SSD sweet spot?

i le Force en 40 Go était un peu moins cher, il serait un premier achat de choix, mais ce n'est pas le cas, du moins pour le moment.