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First SSD Purchase: Corsair Performance Pro?

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The Corsair Performance Pro runs $354 for 256GB.

Can anyone recommend something better for this size and price point?

Thanks.
 
I've been eyeballing the Plextor (for me, the 128GB model.) A little slower on the writes, but it has a bigger cache than the Corsair, and it has a 5-year warranty. Probably the only other one around those two would be the Samsung.
 
My corsair force gt 180scores a perfect 7.9 on Wei and around 8.4 out of 9.9 on windows 8. So I guess if I had $100 more to spend, your choice would have been my choice too
 
A breakdown of the Corsair Performance Pro, IIRC, showed it had 512MB of cache, so the same as the Plextor, just without the 5 year warranty.

The Samsung 830 looks good but locally I can only find 128GB and the 64GB model (wanting 240GB personally).

As to the Agility 3 mentioned before, cheaper, yes, better, not in my book (Asynchronous memory).

Side note, the Performance Pro and Plextor use the M4 chip. The Force, Agility and most others use the sandforce chip.
 
While the Plextor does offer a longer warranty, I think the 34nm nand warrants the extra $5 dollar cost. I think you made the right decision 🙂
 
From everything I've seen/heard, the CPP is great. Basically a faster m4. It's definitely on my radar for my virtually inevitable 2012 upgradeapalooza.
 
Just throwing it out there since I've been looking for a ssd for my work computer. Newegg has the 240 gig Intel 520 for $360 which surprised me since I assumed they were still near $500.
 
Xed said:
Just throwing it out there since I've been looking for a ssd for my work computer. Newegg has the 240 gig Intel 520 for $360 which surprised me since I assumed they were still near $500.
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They have to play to the market requirements when everyone else is having such large price reductions in anticipation of newer controller/models. Especially coming into the mix this late in the SF-2281 game. It's certainly a buyers market right now. About time too. lol

I actually look forward to their implementation of the SF-3xxx series chips. Although I see no formal anouncements so far, you can bet yer ass that they will be capitalizing on all the resources they've expended on this now older chip when implementing the next gen SF chips.

And hopefully the Ivy Bridge platforms won't have nearly as many bugs this go around for all others to have a better chance at improved integrity off the starting line as well.
 
Wow @ Newegg. Ordered it yesterday a little after noon and it arrived here before noon today!

The thing is impossibly small!

Anyway, I hope it works with my older Intel Core2Quad, etc. It won't be mated to a newer Ivy Bridge system until December of this year or so.
 
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