Corsair has been kind enough to send us a sample of their newly configured Force 3 180GB Asynchronous NAND equipped drive.
Asynchronous NAND equipped drives bring 2 things to the table. One has been welcomed and one not so much. What we like is the overall cost of the drive can be greatly reduced and makes the most important performance part in anyone’s system more accessible to more people.
In fact I was able to find this Force 3 180GB drive for as low as $199 with free shipping which is a very good price for a 180GB drive. What Asynchronous carries with it though is of course lower performance in comparison to Synchronous or Toggle NAND. This lower performance is mainly when dealing with incompressible data as we will see. Keeping things in perspective though this Asynchronous NAND drive has about 50 to 100 fold better random 4K performance than a typical Spinning HDD.
Make no mistake the performance between a HDD and a SDD is that pronounced. This is why I say a SSD is the most important component in a high performance system PERIOD.
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Corsair 180 GB Force Series 3 SATA III 6Gb/s 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive - CSSD-F180GB3-BKAsynchronous NAND equipped drives bring 2 things to the table. One has been welcomed and one not so much. What we like is the overall cost of the drive can be greatly reduced and makes the most important performance part in anyone’s system more accessible to more people.
In fact I was able to find this Force 3 180GB drive for as low as $199 with free shipping which is a very good price for a 180GB drive. What Asynchronous carries with it though is of course lower performance in comparison to Synchronous or Toggle NAND. This lower performance is mainly when dealing with incompressible data as we will see. Keeping things in perspective though this Asynchronous NAND drive has about 50 to 100 fold better random 4K performance than a typical Spinning HDD.
Make no mistake the performance between a HDD and a SDD is that pronounced. This is why I say a SSD is the most important component in a high performance system PERIOD.
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Price $199.49
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