Corsair Force Series F115 - any good?

[AnitaPeterson]

Hi folks,

One of my local area stores has these older generation SSDs, "refurbished by the manufacturer", for about $45.

I can't find much in term of reliable user reviews - even at Amazon or Newegg. And the problem with professional reviews is that they look at the immediate specs, but there's no indication of how the product performs in the long run, after being used for a while.

*edit* Looks like a large number of people complained about these drives failing on them after about 6 months. Since there are "manufacturer refurbished", is it possible that the kinks were ironed out?

Also, they seem to use Sandforce controllers...

So... is anyone familiar with them? Are these any good? Is it worth putting them in a secondary system? What do you think?

 

[Zap]

Are they Sandforce 1200 based and 115GB capacity? If so, they used the die shrink 25nm NAND which had lousy performance with those controllers.

 

[AnitaPeterson]

It's these ones:
http://forums.ncix.com/forums/?mode..._id=76309&msgcount=2&overclockid=0#msg2553663

 

[johny12]

Are they Sandforce 1200 based and 115GB capacity? If so, they used the die shrink 25nm NAND which had lousy performance with those controllers.

I thought the issue was not the controller, but the flash they used. They used the same controller for all the OCZ drives and the other drives were fine

 

[AnitaPeterson]

Thanks for the feedback, folks! Didn't buy one, since I didn't feel the deal was worth it.

 

[birthdaymonkey]

Yeah, Sandforce 1200 series is one of the most troubled controllers in the history of SSDs. As far as I know, they still haven't fixed the problem with the drive self destructing randomly when the computer is put to sleep. I have a Vertex 2 in my HTPC/server, which thankfully never sleeps.

 

[tweakboy]

:thumbsdown: SandForce has really kicked peoples butt over the years.

 

[corkyg]

The newer Corsair Neutron 3 doesn't use SandForce. It uses LAMD, reviewed by Anand.

http://www.anandtech.com/Show/Index...e=1&slug=corsair-neutron-gtx-ssd-256gb-review

 

[tweakboy]

Nice Corkey! in that case grab a Neutron 3. LAMD ,,, is that of good quality, whats the wear on that. Just a thought..