Corsair Blog: 25nm SSD Transition

[RhoXS]

Just to be VERY clear here, none of our marketing or PR activities were inspired by any of our competitors. That's not how we do business. All of this was in motion long before any of the other turmoil you have been reading about over the net.

Although I still think it is difficult if not impossible to judge how truly alturistic Corsair, Micron, etc are now, I tend to think Yellowbeard is correct. I have always perceived Corsair a cut or more above the competition both in the quality of their products and their customer service. That is why I usually tend to lean towards their products and so far I have not been even slightly dissappointed. Just the fact that Yellowbeard monitors and responds in this and other forums makes a huge statement about Corsair's recognition of the importance of keeping a two way dialog with their customers, especially the geeks like us. Therefore, to be fair, I have to believe there is truth to Yellowbeard's statement above.

 

[RhoXS]

One more thing I noticed today that might lend even more credibility to Yellowbeard. I was looking at pictures of the Corsair 115 Gb drive on Newegg earlier today. The picture of the box is clearly printed with "115 GB" on the front. I doubt Corsair could have had the boxes printed and the producted shipped and in retailers hands since this concern first became an issue about 4 or 5 weeks ago. If so, they were making the actual size very clear before the controversy even got started.

 

[OS]

the design decisions were prob made a couple months ago..storagereview opened up both OCZ variants and the 25nm version had half as many chips..prob half as many channels.

That the Corsair is running nearly full speed, that design choice was made early on.