- 2.5"
- 256GB
- SATA III
Great Performer
09/25/2013
This review is from: Corsair Neutron Series 2.5" 256GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CSSD-N256GB3-BK
Pros:
I am very happy overall. The Neutron has excellent read/write performance and fast access times. The drive performs well with both compressible and incompressible data (about the same with both).
AS SSD testing returned the following scores on a pair of these bad boys in RAID0:
Read: 687 - Write: 697 - Overall: 1737
Seq: Read 858.98MB/s - Write 843.64MB/s
4K: Read 22.58MB/s - Write 75.40MB/s
4K-64Thrd: Read 577.38MB/s - 537.60MB/s
Acc Time: Read 0.062ms - Write 0.046ms
Cons:
I am very disappointed to see the Corsair SSD Toolbox does NOT support RAID0. The documentation I had read suggested it did and that was influential in my decision to choose the Neutron over the Samsung EVO. Corsair needs to update their documentation for the Toolbox to reflect this because supporting "all functions" is misleading. I bought it expecting that was accurate and neither the over-provisioning tool nor the TRIM tool works. I almost subtracted one egg from the rating because of this. I cannot return it because the policy is exchange only. I'm stuck with it, but based on the good performance I am not going to make a big stink about it. I am posting this so that no potential buyers accept that inaccurate information on face value.
Overall Review:
Price is great and so is performance. Overall, excellent choice. Just don't be deceived on the Corsair SSD Toolbox supporting all functions because it does not.
On the Cosair blog and forum for the SSD Toolbox it states, and I quote;
The Corsair SSD Toolbox will run on:
• XP SP3 (32-bit)...(64-bit version not supported)
• Vista 32-bit w/ latest SP (all functions)
• Vista 64-bit w/ latest SP (all functions)
• Win 7 32-bit w/ latest SP (all functions)
• Win 7 64-bit w/ latest SP (all functions)
• Win 8 32-bit (TRIM is not supported, all others functions are)
• Win 8 64-bit (TRIM is not supported, all others functions are)
"All functions" does NOT include RAID0 support as far as the toolbox software is concerned. Bummer.
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