Corsair Force F40 CSSD-F40GB2 2.5" MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

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Corsair Force F40 CSSD-F40GB2 2.5" 40GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

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2.5"
40GB
SATA II

The Corsair Force Series SSD product line offers maximum performance for your ultimate system with up to a maximum read speed of 285MB/s and write speed of 275MB/s. If speed is what you are looking for and what you expect from your performance or gaming system the Corsair Force Series SSD's are the perfect choice.

Based on the SandForce SF-1200 SSD Processor, the Corsair Force Series SSD's are the ultimate performance drive for your demanding storage requirements. Choose from the F40, F60, F80, F120, F160 or F240 drive for the highest performance and density. Your system will start-up faster, applications and games will load quicker and you will see a huge improvement in overall system responsiveness.

SSD Storage Technology Unlike traditional hard disk drives, SSDs have no moving parts, resulting in a quiet, cool, highly reliable storage solution that also offers faster application loading and system responsiveness. And for laptops and netbooks, the lower power needs of SSD’s translate to extended battery life. Higher performance with more durability means you can be truly mobile with confidence.
Better Performance Built with MLC NAND flash and the latest generation SandForce SF1200 controller featuring award winning DuraClass Technology, the Corsair Force Series F40 SSD (CSSD-F40GB2) delivers world-class SSD reliability, performance, and power efficiency, with maximum sequential read speed of 280 MB/s and maximum sequential write speed of 270 MB/s, plus incredible random 4K write performance of 50,000 IOPS (4K aligned).
TRIM Support The Corsair Force Series SSD’s offer TRIM support than can be enabled in Windows 7. Designed to maintain the performance of SSD at an optimal level over the lifetime of the drive, TRIM functions by actively deleting invalid data from the SSD’s memory cells to ensure that write operations perform at full speed. Since a memory block must be erased before it can be re-programmed, TRIM improves performance by pro-actively erasing pages containing invalid data, allowing the SSD to write new data without first having to perform a time-consuming erase command. To learn how to enable TRIM support in Windows 7, visit: http://blog.corsair.com/?p=3468.

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General

Brand: Corsair

Series: Force

Model: CSSD-F40GB2

Device Type: Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

Used For: Consumer

Physical

Form Factor: 2.5"

Capacity: 40GB

Memory Components: MLC

Interface: SATA II

Performance

Sustained Sequential Read: up to 280MB/s

Sustained Sequential Write: up to 270MB/s

MTBF: 1,000,000 hours

Features

Features: Latest generation SandForce controller and MLC NAND flash for fast performance

Internal SATA II connectivity

TRIM support (O/S support required)

BGC (Background Garbage Collection)

No moving parts for increased durability and reliability and quieter operations over standard hard disk drives

Decreased power usage for increased notebook or netbook battery life

2.5" form factor for your portable computer needs

Manufacturer Warranty

Parts: 3 years limited

Labor: 3 years limited

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Warranty

Limited Warranty period (parts): 3 years
Limited Warranty period (labor): 3 years

Manufacturer Contact Info

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Filter Results Last 2 Weeks (0) Last 6 Months (1) All Reviews (28) 54% (15) 21% (6) 0% (0) 11% (3) 14% (4) Verified Owners Video Reviews Mfr. Responses keyword Go page SubmitTopPaginationForm of 3 previousTopPaginationForm\| nextTopPaginationForm
N/A 3/31/2013 8:49:56 PM Tech Level: 4/5 Ownership: 5/5 Verified Owner	Rating: 2/5Serious reliability issues Pros: Fast Great performance for the price Cons: Dubious quality. Just RMA'd this drive for the SECOND time in less than 2 years. Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Frizzlle 5/16/2011 6:05:20 AM Tech Level: 5/5 Ownership: 3/5 Verified Owner	Rating: 5/5upgrade from 7200 rpm big difference Pros: Boot speed went from 60-seconds to 10 seconds with this ssd. Its also alot lighter then most drives. If people are worried about memory size just get an external drive and also spindle drives have a higher rate of crashing too. Cons: none. Other Thoughts: cant wait to use the sata-6 with corsairs new lineup Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A 4/21/2011 11:49:15 AM Tech Level: 4/5 Ownership: 4/5 Verified Owner	Rating: 5/5Awesome Pros: Super Silly Fast! Low wattage consumption. Cons: A little expensive still... Other Thoughts: This will give your old single core and lower GHz processors new life. Using two of these in my network at home. One is on a sempron thats almost 8 years old and another on a new APU Zacate HTPC setup. Stellar. Cold boots HTPC in ~12 secs. Makes things snappy. 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Jesse 3/24/2011 9:23:21 PM Tech Level: 4/5 Ownership: 4/5	Rating: 2/5Bad Reallocated Sector Count Pros: Sandforce Controller, It works Cons: Bad Reallocated Sector Count, Rated speed unmet Other Thoughts: Bought it when it first came out since it came with a rebate. It seems that my ssd has an issue when I started doing some test. I did multiple benchmarks and almost all software I used show Reallocated Sector Count with a warning highlight/mini caution icon beside it. Average transfer rate is 132Mb/s. I have done every procedures on setting up an ssd like activate AHCI in bios before os install, disabled defrag, hybernation, reduced page file, and only have the os on the ssd and other files on my hdd. No more Corsair ssd and/or other products for me... Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A 3/4/2011 4:54:39 PM Tech Level: 5/5 Ownership: 4/5 Verified Owner	Rating: 1/5Trash! Prepare for BSODs Pros: fast boots Cons: DO NOT PURCHASE if you plan on using in a system that you want to S3 sleep/standby. Your machine will crash on resume. There are a few users that have not experienced this issue but if you check the corsair forums, you'll see it's littered with complaints because corsair has left their customers up a creek... Other Thoughts: Would not recommend purchasing any product from a manufacturer that doesn't back their mistakes. I bought a samsung to replace this and "miraculously" it works as expected! Manufacturer Response: Firmware revisions have corrected this issue for a vast majority of our users. Anyone still experiencing issues should contact our Technical Support using the link below. We apologize for any incovenience. External Link(s): Corsair Contact Page\| 1 out of 3 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
needlesxx 3/1/2011 10:19:39 AM Tech Level: 5/5 Ownership: 4/5 Verified Owner	Rating: 5/5Great Boot Drive Pros: Superfast. Boot time for me is 14 sec for windows 7 ultimate. Easy to install. Cons: None really as I knew it had no rails. I just got creative in the way I mounted it to overcome this. works great Other Thoughts: Great Drive for a boot and swapp file. Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
aetherius 2/24/2011 5:04:08 AM Tech Level: 5/5 Ownership: 3/5 Verified Owner	Rating: 5/5NICE Pros: very fast, obviously! I like to think the F40 name was given in relation to the F40 Ferrari for speed :P Cons: no mounting kits or screws. Other Thoughts: the case i used this in didnt have anyway to mount a 2.5" drive so i just lined it up to the side of the 3.5" drive bays for floppy and put two screws in. the drive is so light that the weight no supported on the other side will never have a negative impact from hanging free. Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A 2/23/2011 5:26:42 PM Tech Level: 3/5 Ownership: 3/5 Verified Owner	Rating: 5/5FAAAST! Pros: Boots windows 7 64 bit in 33 seconds. Thats cold boot. From nothing to desktop. Perfect size for a basic OS install and programs, with a few gigs to spare. Cons: Did not include 2.5 inch to 3.5 inch bracket. Other Thoughts: I emailed Corsair and they sent me a bracket for free!! A++ service! Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A 2/9/2011 8:52:08 AM Tech Level: 4/5 Ownership: 3/5 Verified Owner	Rating: 4/5Fast SSDs Pros: Price, it was $105 when i bought it. Reads and WRITES fast Corsiar reliability Cons: Did not come with mounting brackets for a 3.5 bay Other Thoughts: Perfect Price, good company. RAID-0 was a breeze with my ASUS board. All Sata are backwards compatible, they will just run at the lower speed. I bought a board with SATA 3gbs, these drives barely reach that so its perfect. Can't find the TRIM support, but I only installed games on these so a format won't be an issue. Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A 1/20/2011 10:40:20 PM Tech Level: 4/5 Ownership: 4/5 Verified Owner	Rating: 5/5 Pros: Great performance from an SSD for boot purposes in relation to it's price. With windows being on the SSD and all but my two fav games being on regular HDD's, the regular HDD's can be turned off by win7 to save power. A nice side benefit to the purchase. Cons: Price. As always, since SSD's are still the newer storage medium on the market, they're still pretty expensive. I do believe there is a lack of information packaged with the SSD. I know adaptors of new tech generally have high enough tech knowledge that they can figure little things out, but as these become more and more popular I expect more than a single booklet telling you how to plug the cables in. Other Thoughts: I haven't had any issues since I've done the "required" win7 tweaks to reduce read/writes to the SSD. For the first month it seemed my PC would randomly hang now and then for 3-5 seconds. Like no input at all, screen and video and everything would freeze. Now that I have the AHCI or w/e turned on as well as TRIM the issues stopped. Just thought it was odd. Otherwise, four months in and no issues. 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
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