Pros: Fast shipping, fast replacement but not working = Unknown.

Cons: Both referbs did not work. also 4.5w of power rating

Overall Review: MOST Neweggs referbs are great, not either of these. However I found another 125GB SSD from Sandisk which was .5w, and I think it will be best for the laptop environment.

Pros: Fast and relitivly cheep

Cons: Did not work more than a day

Overall Review: Do not purchase these refurbashed drives from Newegg!
The 30 policy is not sufficient, and the company is completely unresponsive. Email RMA system is a joke, no one gets back to you!. Hidden support number 510-657-8747

Pros: Cheap.

Cons: -Died at the beginning of a Windows 7 installation and afterwards the drive could not be recognized. It worked for may be about 10-15 at most before it died. I tried installing it on other machines and also through a usb-sata adapter, none of them worked.

Overall Review: I sent it back as an RMA Replacement to New Egg and they lost my broken SSD, which was sent in the exact same box as another RMA that was accepted by them. Now they're refusing to give me my money back. I have been shopping with them for almost 10 years now and this is the first time I have ever had to return anything to them, after this experience I won't be shopping with them anymore.

Pros: Great Price, solid performance. Very fast transfer speeds. Very good bang for your buck SSD drive for laptops or desktops. Just make sure you have a spare drive to store all your pictures and/or multimedia files.

Windows 7, after all updates, and a handful of apps installed, I've only got 40gigs of free space remaining.

Cons: The SSD started to BSOD on me. This is a new rig, so all hardware is new.

I tried swapping out the ram, but it still BSOD's on me. So, that pinpoints the cause to the SSD now. I've only had it for less than half a year. It still works, but the random BSOD's make it unreliable when I need my desktop to work from home.

Overall Review: I guess for the price, this is what you pay for. I'm already out of the 30 warranty, so I guess I'll look into a brand new SSD from a different manufacturer.

Pros: Inexpensive

Cons: Two of four drives I bought were DOA and the BIOS would not recognize them. I took them to a local computer repair shop to ensure that I wasn't mistaken. The repair shop confirmed my diagnosis. Unfortunately, I didn't test them within the first 30 days. Neither Newegg nor Corsair will honor the drives. Corsair even declined my offer to pay them to fix the drives.

Overall Review: There are other drives of this size for similar price. I would suggest buying a different brand or at least a different model.

Pros: None

Cons: I bought 10 of these for a order of 10 system builds needless to say 4 out of the 10 worked the rest were DOA I will be pulling the remaing 4 shortlly and tossing them in the trash plus it's been pass 30 days can't return them

Pros: None.

Cons: Thought that maybe it would be luck of the draw on this one and that it couldn't be all that bad. I bought four of these and they were all DOA. I tested them on an onboard SATA connector, a RAID card, and an external USB enclosure on another computer. Nothing.

Do not buy these.

Pros: Arrived fairly quick.

Cons: DOA. Guess whatever savings I expected going with a refurb will be eaten up by shipping.

Overall Review: Installed in an ECS KBN-I/2100 motherboard as a replacement for a standard disk drive. Does not recognize the drive. Even when connected as a slave drive, it does not show up under "Disk Management".

All the reviews since April are DOA. Has ANYONE received a working drive since then?

Pros: None

Cons: Defective, dead, DOA. Not recognized by any Windows means...

Overall Review: What is the reason to sell defective? Replace for something that was tested and working!

Pros: Light

Cons: DOA

Overall Review: I have had several SSDs by corsair but for a budget build I figured that I would try this one. It was DOA. I will write another review when I receive replacement

Pros: Price and good while it worked

Cons: Lasted 5 months
30 day warranty

Overall Review: Spend the extra money and buy one new or with a warranty. There's a reason why they give a 30 day warranty. Bought in 07/13. Installed in 09/13. Throwing errors by 02/14.

Pros: It was fast, the price was great and was easy to install

Cons: It may have been a refurb, but it died after only about 3 months, no warning; just dead.

Pros: Inexpensive, fast, and it's Corsair!!!

Cons: None so far!!!

Overall Review: I purchased two of these for a Raid 0 OS and all my programs. Used 60GB of 223GB available. Atto benchmark reads and write are into the 859MB to 1,000MB range....super fast and just what I was looking for.

Using a Asus P8P67 WS Revolution Mobo and have four 1TB set up in Raid 10 for my data.

Pros: save your time and money and look else where, they only give 30day warranty because they know its going to fail!

Cons: I had 3 of these 2 i bought on 10/27/15. i put one in my grandpas laptop and the other in my laptop and the third was in my sons computer. first my laptop died, a week later my sons computer died. I swapped both of those ssd to my rig to see if i could recover data and they wont read in windows, or bios, and it was set to achi so i know that is good. my grandfather passed last thanksgiving and the laptop hasn't been used since. so 3 drives dead all around the same date all with different amount of hours on each.

Overall Review: dont buy unless you want a ssd paper weight!

Pros: Work great when it was working.

Cons: The drive had issues posting. I should have stopped right there. I figured my machine was a new build and was user error. I was able to get everything up and running. I had 0 issues for about 2 months. THen out of nowhere the drive fails to post. I've tried new cables, different sata ports. Nothing worked. Now its too late to get a refund. Dont buy this just trying to save a buck!!!

Pros: Cheap is a Pro and Con
Very fast boot time
Easy install

Cons: FAILED

Overall Review: Never had any Newegg purchases fail in less than 5 years of purchase before this gem. However, I knew the risk of purchasing a refurbished SSD.

Used as prim boot drive on my personal computer.

Corsair website quote...
"Refurbished or Factory Reconditioned Products
Corsair offers a 30-day, replacement-only warranty for refurbished or factory reconditioned Memory, SSD and USB parts"

Pros: Seemed like a great value for a SATA SSD.

Cons: I had one fail and stop being recognized by any BIOS after 2 days. I received an RMA replacement that did the same thing. I got a low-end Kingston SSD to replace, and that has been performing well. By all means stay away from this product! Now it's been too long since purchase, and I can't refund the 2nd failed SSD. Boo!

Pros: None

Cons: Drive is not recognized by BIOS in any computer either internal or external.... Piece of junk has never worked bought 7/22/2015 from Newegg.com first time hooked up was 9-13-2015 (waited for MB) D.O.A. never worked... got taken
!

Pros: NONE

Cons: Failed after 4months....

Pros: none

Cons: everything.... 1st drive failed in a week, RMA'd it, second drive failed in about a month. Don't ever buy refurbished drives people. EVER!!!! if I cycle my computer on and off 100 times it might show up, and it will boot and work as long as its on, but as soon as you shut off the computer you have to start all ovcer again.........JUNK!

Overall Review: ALWAYS!!! buy new on SSD's

Pros: Was Cheap and what i thought a good brand.

Cons: acted funny from the day i installed it. had been giving me trouble everytime i start up my system. now it wont even boot at all. Iv only had it for about a month and did not use it much at all. im trying to return it but i guess it has been too long. i feel very ripped off and it looks like i am not the only one. i dont even know why new egg would offer a product like this. it is a complete waste of money and more importantly time. very disappointed!

Overall Review: not only is the product poor but new eggs customer service is just as bad.

Pros: Fast transfer while it works

Cons: First one I bought died in less than a week.figuring it may be a fluke, I Rma'd for a replacement. It worked fine for about a month then died. Will never buy referb corsair again. Pay the tiny bit more for ocz or any other mfg with less issues.

Pros: cheap ssd

Cons: DOA, bought it for a future upgrade, and it has not even soo much as been shown present in any app, bios, or OS.
I am a huge Corsair fan, but this has made me loose some faith in their products. Not even the Corsair ssd support app can discover it.

Pros: It was a cheap SSD and booted my machine in 15 sec.

Cons: The first drive I received was DOA (which seems to be common for this drive). I was satisfied with my service for replacement.

The second drive worked great for exactly 45 days. Too bad the limited warranty was up after 30 days. The machine was off for the last week and when I turned it on, nothing. The drive refuses to register just like the previous DOA drive.

Overall Review: I've had great experiences with refurbished equipment as it is usually tested prior to being re-released into the wild. Corsair seems to have an escape in their quality process considering the number of DOA drives. I wonder if this this is an issue in their new drives? I don't think I want to take that gamble, but at least the warranty period would be longer.

Pros: As with any SSD drive, this drive loads very fast... when it loads. More on that later.

It's also quite affordable, in the short term. Potentially a gamble in the long term, at least in my experience.

Cons: This thing worked fine for about the first 3 weeks. After that it started having this startup issue. Now anytime I start up my computer, the drive is not recognized as a proper boot disk and asks me to insert something into my second boot drive (The CD drive) and press any key. it takes me around 5 or 6 restarts to get it to boot into windows normally. This also happens with restarting from sleep mode, where it will load up the password screen, but not load into windows from there (It just black screens). Again, rebooting 5 or 6 times from that allows me to boot into the same windows I let it sleep from. Honestly this is unnacceptable, as the whole reason I bought a solid state drive was because of the supposed quick boot up times.

Once I get it to load it's fine, and it's quick to load up games installed on the drive, but really I'm just worried that its going to crash and I'm going to be left with a paper weight, a weekend of re-installation blues. It's also annoying, because I have student editions of ARCGIS and other software that I have to contact my school to get a new code for.

Overall Review: I tried to return this for a potentially non broken version, however I had waited past the 30 day return window. Let this be a warning - if your part appears broken, don't try and weather the storm, or bother tinkering with your BIOS. Just send it back.

Pros: The second one works nicely

Cons: DOA, had to pay half the cost of the ssd in question to ship the dead one back. The replacement came fast because i paid a huge deposit but still not impressed. You sent me a paper weight, corsair, and then made me pay the outrageous return shipping on it in order to get what i paid for and what you agreed to provide me with in the first place. You may have just lost a customer, i havent decided yet. Man up and stand behind your products, this is completely ignorant and and you know it.

Overall Review: Corsair left me two options, either pay the $30 to get a working one or accept my $60 loss and go elsewhere for an SSD. I'm curious as to what would have happened if the second one was also DOA...

Pros: Cheap

Cons: The first 3 I got were all dead. Each one was tested with 3 different motherboards and 1 laptop. The first 3 were all completely dead.

Since I could not get a refund because it was refurbished I had to keep sending them back in hopes I would finally get one that worked.

After almost 2 months of returns and test the last one finally worked. I sold the last one I got and will never buy again.

Overall Review: Beware of refurbished drives from Corsair.

I am not saying Corsair is a bad company but the Quality Control has some major issues.

Pros: I think it would have been a great drive it would have done anything

Cons: It didnt do anything, tried to access it with Ubuntu, Mint, and Win 7 nothing

Pros: The Corsair Name

Cons: While Corsair's New Drives are great, their Refirb'd SSDs are the absolute WORST...

I don't know why Corsair even bothers to Refirb their warrantied products, they are so bad. Every one I have tried has died within a VERY short time but of course just outside the 90 day warranty...

Do yourself a big favor and get a New Corsair drive but NOT their refirbed garbage...

Overall Review: Like I said Corsair's Neutrons (New) are great, I've bought many and none have failed and all are fast with Great SSD Toolbox software...

Pros: it runs good...... the few times it actually runs

Cons: This ssd very seldom will get recognized by my mobo. sometimes will be detected but others its completely useless. It has bad connectivity issues but upon further research it seems that most all the force 3 ssd's are iffy like this. definitely do not recommend. youll have better luck with other brands. I also have a pny that functions flawlessly. looks like ill be getting another one of those and sticking with it.

Overall Review: waste of money, stick with better brands

Pros: Hmmm....looked pretty when I removed it from the package?

Cons: Never booted a single time. Couldn't install my OS... Dead on arrival.

Overall Review: Pretty disappointed I also have to pay almost $10 to ship it back.

Pros: Price was fantastic.

Cons: Got what I paid for. Drive failed. Unfortunately, when I contacted Newegg regarding an RMA for the drive it was outside of the 30 day window, by only a couple of days, for this item. Newegg would not provide an exception even though the drive failed inside of the 30 day window.

Overall Review: I have been a long time customer of Newegg. I realize I took a gamble on buying a "refurbished" drive but figured it was worth the gamble. I lost. Still disappointed though.

If you are purchasing a refurbished drive. Make sure that you run the drive through "Spinrite" level 2 before using the drive. If the drive fails that will give you a good chance of returning the drive inside of the 30 day window.

Pros: It may work when it wants to...
When it dies it may make a nice coaster...

Cons: Panic Lock!

Overall Review: I bought two 120gb corsair force 3 ssd's to store plugins, jails, VM's for my recent FreeNas build nothing too critical as I can reinstall them easily. I am glad I bought two. The first SSD would only be recognized by the system every 4-10+ reboots and when I did get it to be recognized it would fail to upgrade the firmware from 5.0.5 to 5.0.7. Tried it on multiple systems with the same result. I RMA'd that piece of junk. The replacement appears to be recognized better and updated successfully to 5.0.7. The other drive seems to be working but I did have one reboot where the drive was not detected. It is a good thing I do not plan on rebooting the nas often.

Search the internet for "sandforce panic lock" for some insight to what you may be dealing with. These drives are based on the Sandforce 22XX chipset which is plagued by many issues.

If you do buy one of these I recommend upgrading the firmware to the latest version and make sure the drive is recognized after many cold reboots. Do some read and write tests. By the way the smart data has been wiped so you cannot see how much it has been abused in its previous life...

I recommend avoiding it and going with a newer drive with a newer controller that is not buggy for a few more dollars if not the same price.

Pros: Work great for 4 months.

Cons: Dead have 4 months of gentle use.

Pros: It was fast. It was refurbished so that price was decent enough to make a gamble. And I lost.

Cons: The drive was dead within 8 months of use. I wouldn't recommend buying this for anything other than a scrap drive.

Pros: It is fast

Cons: It failed exactly 34 days after it arrived and was installed.

Overall Review: The drive came with a 30 day warranty. It failed after 34 days. I really expected more than 4 extra days of life beyond the warranty. Seriously, that is ridiculous.

Pros: No Pros because... *see cons statement*

Cons: DOA. Considering I'm an international customer, pretty much I can't do anything but purchased a US$50+ for a dead item

Pros: fast, cheap, works

Cons: 2 were DOA

Overall Review: I bought 5 to to put in a RAIDZ3, but 2 were DOA. Newegg replaced them immediately. I believe the whole process took a week to get my new drives. After buying recertified, I was pleasantly surprised.

Pros: Great deal, works great in my Dell M90.

Cons: none

Overall Review: see a redcert 256 gb

Pros: Fast
Good Price
Easy to use

Cons: Non so far!

Overall Review: Other than not coming in a retail box it looks, performs and feels brand new which is great.

Pros: Very fast. Windows 8 install was painless and it boots in seconds. Big drive for the price.

Cons: Refurb. Hopefully will not lead to any issues.

Pros: Price was right. It is much faster than a normal HD.

Cons: If I leave my PC unattended for any period of time, it is locked up when I return. I have to force power it off, then reboot twice before it boots up properly. I tried re-installing Win7 Pro several times, but I get the same result.

I do not know if the cause is that it is a refurb or is it the Corsait drive itself.

I should have known better than to buy a refurb, but the price made it worth a shot. WRONG!

The 30 day warranty is silly. How can you sell ANY product, and tell the buyer that you stand behind it for only a month?!?

Overall Review: In closing, I guess that I will put up with this nonsense until my patience runs out, then toss it and replace it with another brand, and NOT another refurb.

I don't think that I can recommend this refurbed drive to anyone

Pros: It works! which is my biggest concern coz normally I step away from refurbished products..

It's fast, but for some reason not as fast as my Crucial M4 SSD that I had.

Cons: none really, for the price and the size of the storage of this SSD its good, altho for some reason my Crucial M4 SSD which is rated at 500mb read is faster than this 550mb rated Corsair SSD.

Overall Review: for the price, its worth a shot, sure you may get a bad one since this is a refurbished product but its well worth the shot, and if it doesn't work, newegg will refund you your money or Corsair will switch it up for you, its upto you.


I turned on my AHCI mode and everything but for some reason this one is slower than a 500MB rated Crucial M4 SSD (doing 450mb/s on this one while the crucial was able to max at 502mb/s) and even WEI rated my Crucial SSD at 7.9 (which is max you can get) and this corsair SSD at 7.6


I will keep fidling around settings maybe I am missing something, but even at 450mb/s thats still darn fast.

Pros: * Great Price
* Works Like New
* Fast

Cons: * Will See How Long it Lasts

Overall Review: Wish I bought another.

Pros: Just like new out of the box.
Much faster than traditonal HDD. (10x faster startup)
Good price/performance ratio.

Cons: Nothing so far.

Overall Review: If you're gonna buy a refurb'd SSD than get one of these
for sure. Or any corsair brand for that matter.
Corsair has amazing products new or used.

Pros: Fast. Enough space for major applications and OS

Cons: Reliability is a concern

Overall Review: My first SSD was DOA. Bios did not recognize drive was installed. Tried connecting externally using enclosure to laptop and had same issue. RMA'd for new (refurbished) one. This one appears to be working. Will keep posted if any further issues arise.

Pros: Hard to tell

Cons: Wasted time waiting for it to arrive because it was DOA.
Wasted postage sending its predecessor back to Corsair.
Wasted time having to troubleshoot something that should have been functional in the first place.
Do they check whether refurbed devices even work?

Overall Review: Today I received a CSSD-F120GB3/RF (note the absence of the number 2 at the end; no discernible difference) as the result of an RMA directly from Corsair. This drive was supposed to replace a CSSD-F115GB2-BRKT-A that had died while still in the warranty period. The SSD I received today to replace that old drive was DOA. What's the point of getting an RMA if all you're going to get in exchange is a little metal box that doesn't do anything?

Pros: Price

Cons: DOA. Bought a referb...guess you get what you pay for.

Pros: None

Cons: DOA Item

Overall Review: SSD arrived DOA. Called Newegg fro RMA to get replacement and shipped item back. Newegg refunded my payment (less than I paid) and didn't bother to ship me a replacement. Pathetic customer service. Buy elsewhere!!!

Overall Review: I don't think it worked for more than an hour. To much trouble to send it back.

Manufacturer Response:

Hello Ryan,

Do allow us or Newegg to help. Ask for a prepaid label and you shouldn't be out of any money on top of the purchase price.

-Art

Pros: The price was reasonable.

Cons: For 2 consecutive times the SSD failed and caused data loss.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Customer,

We are sorry about the SSD. Please call us and we can give you an RMA. Our Tech Support number is 888-222-4346 or submit a ticket at corsair.force.com.

Thank you,
Corsair Customer Support
Corsair Support Email: support@corsair.com
Corsair Support Phone Number: 888-222-4346

Pros: This was my first SSD and i was happy with it, boot time was faster video editing was faster everything seemed speed up.

Cons: Only lasted a month before it failed..

Overall Review: If the replacement fails it's gonna suck.. I went with Corsair as i've never had a issue with them before.

Well the replacement lasted almost a year and now it's giving me issues again i have to unplug my other 2 storage drives and have just the ssd plugged in for it to boot when it's been working fine with the storage drives up till now. even if i go into the boot manager it shows my 2 storage drives but not the ssd. i've switched sata cables power plugs so on and still wont boot endless it's the only drive plugged in.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Customer,

We are sorry about your Corsair SSD. Please call us and we can give you an RMA. Our Tech Support number is 888-222-4346 or submit a ticket at corsair.force.com.

Thank you,
Corsair Customer Support
Corsair Support Email: support@corsair.com
Corsair Support Phone Number: 888-222-4346

Pros: Price. Fast performance.

Cons: Will not boot most of the time. The computer does not see it.

Overall Review: If it would boot without me having to power cycle atleast half of the time, I'd have given more stars.

Pros: fast
functional
cheap

Cons: first one was broken but they sent one that works fine

Pros: Worked ok for like the first 30 days. Had to RMA it got the new one fast

Cons: Reads of 200 writes of 110. New one reads and write are just a littler faster Reads 207 Writes 154

Overall Review: Start going bad right away and the Warranty Void Labels are right were the Screws so putting in on I amost Void the Warranty
What my computer on first start up go's right to bios because no Boot device if I restart the pc like 3 or 4 times it will work and no it not my Pc doing it. I put this SSD in my laptop and it did the same thing .
RMA this ssd to Corsair I send the bad one back on Friday Around 4pm and got the new one Wednesday around 9am

Pros: Fast, inexpensive

Cons: Lasted about one year, then it failed.

Overall Review: Just go for an Intel SSD, or even a non-refurb Corsair

Pros: Price
Brand

Cons: Unit failed

Overall Review: I usually avoid re-furbs but I felt that a brand like Corsair would be the exception. This was a major debacle and at the worst time.
I found that the exception service they offer for Memory is not available for this product.
THe time spent diagnosing the problem and correcting all the issues this drive caused is not worth the few dollars difference between other choices.

New Egg should value the comments from poor reviews and consider removing products below a 3.9

Pros: Great Quality! Eggcellent Price Point! ! !

Boot times are amazing with windows 10. Read write times are awesome for the price!

Cons: 1.) None

Only thing i can recommend is make sure you can use this small of a drive.

Pros: very good price-performance
arrived fully functional in like-new condition
probably the most efficient upgrade you can buy if you're still running your OS and favorite programs off a mechanical HD

Cons: doesn't come with a SATA cable, but you probably have an extra and if not you can buy one on newegg for like $3

Overall Review: bought this for my dad to speed up his computer

used a freeware tool called EaseUS Todo Backup to clone his old OS drive onto this one

this allowed me to make an exact copy of his OS with all his settings and stuff without having to do a reinstall

I bought a 120GB SATA II SSD like 3-4 years ago, and it cost me over 4x this price and has less performance than this one plus some compatibility issues, so the technology is improving rapidly

Pros: price was good considering I paid $200 for a non refurbished corsair force series 3 120gb ssd.

Cons: ssd does not always show up on hard starts. I have to power on/off the computer. I checked my sata cables, sata ports, and psu... all is good... it is definitely the ssd. I'm outside of RMA range.

Pros: Great price

Cons: Had intermittent boot failures for a few months. Completely failed in less than four months. This SSD had problems soon after installation. The laptop occasionally wouldn't recognize the drive, and wouldn't boot. I re-formatted the drive and did a fresh install with this SSD in a desktop PC. Then the boot failures would be more frequent, until finally the drive wouldn't ever boot. It no longer could be discovered in BIOS. It's too late for an RMA, thus the one star rating.

Overall Review: Probably had the same problem it got returned for the first time.

Pros: Nothing

Cons: Came DOA

Pros: Nice SSD for cheap. Good when it works.

Cons: These ssds are notorious for failing or arriving DOA. KNOW WHAT YOUR GETTING INTO. My first one arrived doa. Newegg happily replaced it and sent me a new one. Do not buy refurbished items if you do not want to go through this process as it does happen and it happens often.

Overall Review: Comes with no extras like mounting screws or adapter, just the SSD itself.

Pros: None

Cons: Dead on Arrival !
Do not waste your money & very precious time !
Choose a better product.

Pros: It's really fast.

Cons: It keeps freezing the entire computer. Disabling ALPM in UEFI helped, some. It still freezes every once in a while, though. Down from every hour or two to once a week or so.

Overall Review: I'm glad I got this on sale. My next SSD is going to not have a sandforce chipset.

Pros: looked like a great name and a great price.

Cons: I ordered one of these for a replacement on a special project. DOA right out of package; BIOS on multiple machines would not even see the drive!

Received a new drive a few days later (kudos to new egg for the fast turnaround), but same issue again

Would not order this again, sad since this is a Corsair.

Pros: None

Cons: Mine arrived DOA. My fault for not opening the package until a couple of months after purchase, relying on the reliability of products purchased from Newegg. If you do purchase, then open immediately upon receipt and make sure that it's in working order.

Pros: Very fast, both read and write. Since SSD'S cant be damaged and repaired, these refurbished drives were blacked out and corsair simply wiped them. These are virtually identical to brand new drives, but at half the price. Of course, there will be a bad egg in the bunch, but that is the nature of electronics, I personally will never buy a brand new SSD.

Cons: None

Overall Review: Great for speeding up an old computer, or a brand new one.

Pros: My 3rd refurb SSD, 2 OCZ, and this Corsair

This thing is faster than my OCZ

Cons: none

Overall Review: want another one really..

Pros: Fast, good price for a refurb, have not had any problems after 4 months.

Cons: None

Overall Review: Put in a Asus G75VX laptop, sped it up considerably.

Pros: my first ssd, and if it's your first and your wondering is it worth it? yes, yes it is. my computer is fully booted in under 20 seconds, usually before my monitor realises it need to be on also.

Cons: none

Overall Review: is a fairly small storage space i only have my Os and some engineering programs on it at the moment.

Pros: Fast, easy set up, perfect for Windows 8. Corsair software for cloning made things a breeze. Great with three year-old Toshiba laptop.

Cons: Didn't work with my existing USB to SATA cable that had come with my Seagate external drive, but that's probably just Seagate's problem.

Overall Review: Had this for a day, and it was really easy to get going. Had to buy a USB>SATA cord for lack of a desktop. (that's getting fixed with my first build soon!!) Plugged in the drive, opened Corsair's software, clicked "clone" and after a couple hours (still stuck on USB 2.0) everything was on the new drive. Literally just swapped the drives, booted up and that was it. No drivers, (I did update however) didn't even have to run a fixmbr. Quite literally plug and play, although your mileage may vary. Took boot time (Win 8.1, AMD A6 1.5 GHZ quad, 8 GB ram, Radeon 6550) from 14 seconds down to 8. Most of that time is pre-HD (BIOS, etc.) and Windows takes 1-2 seconds.

Pros: Great ssd. Runs fast and smooth. Havent had a single problem with it. Great price. Couldnt even tell its a refurb. Looks new out of the package. Upgraded from a 7200rpm hd and love the speed.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: If you are looking for an upgrade from your old hd this is def the one to go with. I plan on getting another one for my laptop.

Pros: -Very fast
-Great price

Cons: -None so far

Overall Review: I bought this SSD to instal in my laptop, it has worked fenominally well for about 5 months now. No complaints. I have another laptop and desktop with SSD's and this Corsair drive is by far the fastest. The other drives are OCZ Vertex 4's. Fast drives but the Corsair is better. Also I picked this one up for around $95 so waiting around for the price to drop might be a good idea.

Pros: Fast Sata III SSD.

Cons: Lower capacity. May need to disconnect all SATA devices, excluding primary DVD drive, when installing Windows 7 (otherwise GPT partition notice comes up).

Overall Review: Was very inexpensive for me here.

Pros: Super Fast! First refirb and this thing is not letting me down!!

Cons: None

Overall Review: Great drive very very fast. From Power button to login in 8 seconds.

Pros: Super fast. Cheap. Great price for the size right now.

I'm using it on an X58 mobo with Sata II and its still super fast. Boots Windows 7 Ultimate in 15 sec from a cold boot. ( tops out around 300Mb/s read / write on Sata II ) Looking forward to getting a Z87 mobo for Sata III.

Cons: Refurbished? That's about it.

Overall Review: SSD's ruin you when it comes to using normal HDD's. Since using SSD's, I cant stand accessing programs I have on my standard HDD's.

Pros: Blisteringly fast, easy install, does exactly what it's supposed to.

Cons: If you could list it as a con, this refurbished drive comes with no mounting hardware whatsoever. Just the drive in a plastic sleeve. Not an issue for me, as I tend to mount my SSDs with Velcro Tape anyway (which works exceedingly well).

Overall Review: I've seen a lot of folks here dock an egg because it only registers as 110GB of 120, which is ridiculous. That's normal for SSDs and HDDs alike. My 2TB HDD recognizes 1811GB, a normal ~10% less than advertised. The same applies to SSDs, 10% of 120 is 12, meaning expect roughly 108GB of usable space.

I will absolutely purchase another Corsair SSD come Black Friday.

Pros: Fast drive
Price

Cons: None to speakcof

Pros: Not much to say I have been using for almost a month, but I have a few PC's with SSD's. This has been a good driver so far, fast

Cons: None at this time

Pros: Super fast load of anything on the drive, great read and write speeds, easy to install

Cons: none confirmed, see other thoughts

Overall Review: every other day or so i get a 10 sec lag of computer not responding, although this could be due to my other HDDs in my computer. very very minor thing, doesnt happen often enough to be an issue, usually when im browsing the internet, its never happened to me in a game or loading a game

all in all, a fantastic buy because it was refurbished and ive never used an SSD before this one. LOVE it

Pros: Very slim and sleek format size and design,. as for performance it blows your 7200rpm HDD away really a must for any builder... I recommend the refurbished SSD's for there awesome prices and top notch quality refurbishing, They could pass these off as brand new and you wouldnt see a complaint.

Cons: Refurbished written on it when its perfect xD

Pros: It has a very low power consumption which is pretty much standard for SSDs, installation was quick and painless, I am currently using this in my new build as the operating system drive.

Cons: Installation of the operating system, Win7HP, was a bit of a pain, as it would not format right away. Plugged it into a sata 2 plug and the install went through. (It is now plugged into a SATA3 port and data transfer is rather high)

Pros: Works as intended, boasts higher life expectency then what i thought i would get.

Cons: Some brands include a drive bay extension to fit it in larger bays ? But refurbished and at this price, I didn't expect it.

Overall Review: I previously thought the drive was bad, but as weird as it sounds the problem I had was with a sata cable ! Apologies to anyone concerned.

Pros: None

Cons: 47 out 86 people who purchased this SSD, ended up like me, with a $60 paperweight instead of a functioning SSD.

Overall Review: 47 negative reviews out 0f 86 sales and no manufacturer response.
It seems that Corsairs' customer services only reason for existing is to serve as a example of how not to serve it's customers.

Pros: Decided to bite into the SSD craze and try one. Figured for $60 why not.

So far this drive has had zero problems. Used EaseUS Todo Backup cloning software to copy over my Win7 install on my old Asus MB w/DDR2.

Using HD Tach the read speed is 172MB/s and write speed is 200MB/s.

Boot times cut in half and so far no issues at all.

Would care to guess many with issues with these have been due to lack of true tech knowledge. These are not normal platter-based drives and sometimes behave differently.

While not trying to disregard anyone else, if a drive is DOA then it is DOA and will not show up in the BIOS. If it does then it is 99% chance ok.

This drive is awesome for the money even if on an old ICH7 DDR2 Xeon Quad board.

Cons: None.

Overall Review: For those wondering how to install Win7 on any Win8 laptop/desktop - use the 'bootsect.exe' from a Win8 disc to erase and format a USB stick - then copy over the Win7 install files. Boot to the USB stick and Win7 install will proceed. So many get stuck on this. Forget special 'installers'. Use the bootsect.exe to erase and format a USB stick. Just like the old days when a floppy formatted with DOS 6.22 was not recognized by DOS 5.0. Same thing.

Pros: Works right out of the box. VERY fast operation, it really sped up my computer dramatically!

Cons: It is the size of a laptop drive. Make sure you also purchase a SSD to 3.5" adapter for mounting in a desktop, if that is your intended use. I was not aware that most SSDs are laptop-drive size, and thus spent hours driving all over town looking for an adapter to install it.

Overall Review: Its a great little drive. Does exactly what I hoped it would do. I'm using it as an OS drive, then I also purchased a 1TB hard disk to go along with it.

Pros: I don't know it never worked past windows installation

Cons: this drive hangs and freezes during windows install. I swapped out hard drive to be sure and yes this ssd is the culprit. I don't see how these drives get past Corsair quality control. You can't even do an install!!! waste my 4 days of shipping from only 30 miles away and now shipping cost for rma.

Overall Review: I'm sure I'm going to get another bad drive this loop will be a long month worth of battles. I am an honest buyer I just want a working drive out the box. this isn't fair because I have to pay for return ship and if the other drive comes I have to pay for that too. plus add the lost days waiting, it's not worth it. please avoid if possible

Pros: like new, for refurbished price >=)

Cons: nothing as of now.

Overall Review: I've seen some of these go up in flames. I hope this isn't one of them ^.^

Pros: For the price being on sale, this was a decent bargain. It came well packaged and now I have my Windows 7 machine boot off this ssd. After the hassle it works wonders now. Boy is it fast!

Cons: When first installed my comp would not properly start up. After booting from old previous settings and searching through my computer I would not find this storage device. After downloading the Corsair Tool program it would not update the drivers needed. Forums on this issue are a hassle to go through. Had to have a techie friend with more knowledge then me reformat this ssd to properly run. This ssd IS NOT PLUG AND PLAY for windows 7 in my case at least.

Overall Review: I would of still purchased this ssd regardless at the price I paid for $42.99. If I had to pay a cent more knowing the hassle I went through to finally get it to properly function. (No thanks to Corsairs faulty tool kit program). I would not of gotten this. Still overall great buy. Just note if you purchase this make sure you know more about reformatting and BIOS then I do. Im just an average Joe in this field.

Pros: *Cheap
*Good Quality
*Simple Packaging
*Very Fast
*Reliable

Cons: Sata 3 connectors feel like they bend too easily so that is a bit scary.

Overall Review: I had this SSD running in my mining rig going for non stop 4 months straight with a few restarts here and there. I now have it as the boot drive for a freeNAS build. I highly recommend this as long as you understand its a refurb and refurbs sometimes fail. I would not use this as main source of storage for valuable information.

Pros: Ok, after working on it all night, found out you can not use Win XP without several apps and a bunch of other adjustments. Ended up just using Win 7.

Cons: Too much effort to get SSD to work with Win XP.

Overall Review: Was going to use this SSD as my off-roading drive to keep from damaging the original hard drive and use Win XP as it was smaller and my mapping software was compatible with it. Looks like I will have to upgrade my mapping software now. But at least the SSD now works great.

Pros: Great value and works great! If you still operate on HDD, u r missing on amazing speeds.

Cons: Only recognized 110 GB out of the 120 :(

Pros: Works great so far. Have had for a few weeks in which I have run heavy SSD diagnostics every couple of days. Health is excellent, have had no problems at all; it appears to be able to live a normal lifespan.

Cons: None

Overall Review: I have had a few BSODs after installing, but I believe that is due to a new PSU I had installed the previous day,