Corsair Force LS Series 2.5" 60GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CSSD-F60GBLS

Pros: Corsair is a well-known DRAM manufacturer, so it is logical they have expanded into the SSD market. I seem to be seeing their name on more and different electronic products. This drive is remarkably small and light; the smallest 2.5 inch drive I have seen. The lightness is attributable to the plastic casing. I hope it holds up, it seems pretty sturdy. There are no moving parts, so it should be fine. I cloned my old hard drive to this drive using Windows System Backup in Windows 8, and it was up and running immediately. Control Panel, Save backup copies…, System image backup. Then remove the source drive and replace it with your new drive. Then boot your system with a repair or installation disk and restore the image you just created to your new drive. Or there is plenty of free disk cloning software out there. Other than Windows I would suggest using some flavor of UNIX DD. I installed the Corsair drive just like you would install any SATA drive. I don’t know why some are having issues, there is no difference in the installation, as far as I can tell. There are 2 tweaks you should make in Windows to maximize the life of your drive. Turn off automatic defragging and stop the creation of the page file. Each block of an SSD drive can written to only a finite number of times, so limiting unnecessary writes is important. The 120 GB (less than 112 GB formatted) is adequate for day-to-day use, but if you have a lot of music or graphics to store, you will need and external USB drive. Fortunately 500 GB USB 3.0 external mechanical hard drives can be had for just $50 - $60.

Cons: The life span of SSD drives is still unknown. I have not heard of issues, but they have only been widely used for a couple of years. This drive has slower read and write speeds compared to other SSD, but I would expect this from a small inexpensive drive. Still it is much faster than a mechanical drive. There were no instructions included. There was no mounting hardware, not even a screw! Fortunately for me they were not missed.

Overall Review: This drive would be perfect for replacing a failing drive in a laptop or desktop. I guarantee if you are moving from a mechanical drive you will feel like you have a new machine.

Pros: put in an older laptop with sata2 and brought new life into it

Cons: na

Overall Review: great upgrade for older laptops and newer ones also.

Pros: This is a good SSD, seen 390MBps with no speed configuration done to the ASUS Motherboard.

Cons: I didn't like that it didn't come with a 2.5 to 3.5 mount like the other SSD's I've used. I wish it was documented more clearly about the lack of mounting adapter.

Pros: While on my SATA2 desktop its test result in benchmark is no much different from a 3 years old 64GB SSD, daily operation does become faster.

Cons: It died in 2 days, in a sudden during normal use. Even external closure cannot get it recognized. Waiting for replacement.

Pros: Worked great while it lasted

Cons: Died randomly one night 2 months later.

Overall Review: Don't buy this.

Pros: Gets the job done pretty well consideirng the net cost of $45 (after rebate) for a budget drive. (Could not resist the price tag to test a brand I have never used.) Very respectable performance!

Cons: None for the price paid.

Overall Review: It's unclear to me why the last 3 reviewers were having issues with this drive. Installing SSDs isn't as easy as mechanical hard drives. There is some preparation the needs to be made before that installation for trouble-free operation. (Research online for the process!) After playing with over 15 brands of various SSDs, the effort to get the drive up and running is about the same as most others based on my experience. The drive package comes with screws - pretty uncommon practice as most low end drives come with nothing else. The housing is light despite having a all-metal top casing. It is built with a Phison PS3108 controller. Majority of the reputable online reviews I've read before purchasing gave it above-average value. The drive was not supposed to be introduced in the U.S., but somehow made it here none-the-less. (The package insert directs all warranty claims to either Hong Kong or Taiwan.) Corsair still warrants the drive in the U.S. however. Performance-wise it is not as fast as OCZ ARC100 (Best vlaue drive out there at the moment!) when it comes to booting up and normal usage, but the difference is minor in day-to-day operation. Cloned my main rig SSD to this drive using MiniTool Partition Wizard freeware (unclear why cloning using Macrium Reflect freeware will not work yet.), went into Windows Disk Administrator to make sure my hard drive partitions are configured with drive letters again, and it was up and running in little time. Installed the Corsair SSD Toolbox, and made sure the drive had the latest firmware installed. The drive has since been functioning perfectly for over 7 days now continuosly. From my understanding, Corsair has a solid reputation when it comes to SSDs, so I am pretty comfortable in recommending this product. Good luck!

Pros: one of the fastest avaible, reads were faster than rated, write not so much, wonder why, other dirves urchasedfrom other manufacturer were dead on rated speed.

Cons: 25% lower write speeds, not really noticeable though.

Overall Review: would recomend

Pros: It's an SSD, Cheap, and it boots windows in less than 10 seconds

Cons: it's not samsung evo fast?

Overall Review: again, SSD, Cheap, Fast enough for what I needed it for