Would you buy a Corsair Force GT 180GB for $194?

[Coup27]

Perhaps it would be better if you stuck to the topic at hand rather than taking potshots at people who haven't even commented on this thread.

And fwiw, I've heard good things about the gt.

Sorry, it was just a light joke. Starting to think they're banned on this forum.

 

[groberts101]

Sorry, it was just a light joke. Starting to think they're banned on this forum.

no they're not. you just can't swear when you do it, is all.

sense of humor seems to be in short supply on ocassion though. :whiste:

 

[spinejam]

I have one -- great drive!

 

[Engineer]

Update: I installed this yesterday replacing an Intel 320 - 160GB drive. This is the first SSD that I've replaced another SSD with that I could actually tell a difference, and not just in benchmarks. This drive is about as close to loading from ram, in drive form, that I've found yet.

I understand that once loaded, Windows does a great job of keeping what it can in ram so that it's loaded from there next time, but almost everything feels like it is loaded from ram.

The biggest difference that I've noticed is opening my "huge" e-mail folder (7 accounts - 10,000+ e-mails). The e-mail program seems to want to "index" every now and then and it's generally slow (random file reads/writes?). It's much faster with this drive than previous drives.

As for Windows itself, the boot is about the same but there is something wrong with this particular PC's boot anyway as it seems to hang for about 20 seconds when first starting. Other PC's in the house do not exhibit this, even with older, slower drives (This PC did this no matter the SSD installed).

Anyway, I'll test "real world" as I can. So far, it's darned fast. Couldn't imagine going back to a spinner for programs/OS at this point, lol!

 

[groberts101]

Welcome to the low latency and low end grunt of Sandforce 6G controllers bud.

Now you can see why Intel wanted a piece of that action, eh?

 

[nOOky]

It's a great drive, I have one myself. That is a great price too. I find 120 gigs simply isn't enough and 180 is a nice compromise. You'll likely never notice the difference between this and those "faster" drives. The Force GT is a fast drive itself.