Corsair Force Series 3 2.5" 120GB SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CSSD-F120GB3-BK

Pros: Corsair replaced my first (bad) drive quickly. I requested an advanced return last Wednesday and got the new drive on Friday. So far the new drive is solid.......and FAST! Would give it 5 Eggs right now but need a few weeks to make sure the first drive's issues have been fixed. I've been using the drive for 3 days now & I've been throwing every program I have at it. Rock solid so far. I never did experience the "Drive Disappearing" or blue screens on the original drive that some users did though.

Cons: Still too early to know if all the initial problems have been corrected. According to Corsair's tech support, it was a hardware/firmware issue, but no one's giving details on it yet. Whatever the reason, Corsair's or Sandforce's QC should have caught this one. Also, the new versions are now cheaper than what I paid for the bad one! Feeling a bit ripped off that I paid more for a drive that had to be returned. Not to mention the sheer joy of two OS installs in 2 weeks!

Overall Review: In case you're wondering how to make sure you have a "good" drive, check the part # on the UPC sticker. Anything starting with 1123 or higher is a new drive. 1122 or lower should be returned. Just like the Sea**** fiasco from a couple years back, Corsair's rep will take some tiime to recover from a whole production run of bad drives. I personally have had nothing but positive experiences with Corsair products for years so I have faith in them. Plus, they did get replacement drives out very quickly. Still, a strike is a strike.

Pros: It really "feels fast" when I get get it to last more than five minutes.

Cons: The drive loses connection after only a couple of minutes. This happens inside or outside of Windows. If it's inside Windows, it is an automatic BSOD.

Overall Review: Supposedly, this is a problem with the latest Sandforce firmware, and the new OCZ drives have the exact same problem. This issue is all over the Corsair and OCZ forums. Buyer beware.

Pros: Where do I begin? - CHEAP! total price (with tax and MIR) was 194 dollars, hands down the best bang for your buck. - FAST! Holy crap getting exactly 550read/510 write, with ~80000IOPS 4k random. It's like a OCZ vertex 3 at half the cost! -Ordered it monday, came wednesday. FREE 2 day shipping! -Windows boots in ~15 seconds (stupid motherboard splash screen + windows screen) compared to about 45 seconds before. -Whatever problems existed before (both hardware and firmware) appear to be fixed, as I've been running this thing for 24 hours straight with absolutely zero hiccups. Lots of respect to a company who admitted fault and fixed in a timely manner (unlike other companies...)

Cons: -Doesn't come with a sata cable. No biggie, just forewarning for some who may need to order one with the purchase. -I've read somewhere that on other SSD's(vertex 3 in particular), people who still use the marvel controller for sata III (amd SB750, etc) will not experience the full speeds. The newer AMD SB(850 and 950) and intel boards use their own controllers which ameliorated the problem, but just a forewarning to some who are running marvell controllers.

Overall Review: Absolutely the best purchase I have ever made for any computer ever. Like others, I've been wanting an SSD since about 2 years ago, and have been religiously stalking the upcoming drives for lower prices and faster performance. Well, I think it's safe to say that corsair has absolutely hit the nail on the head with this drive. Fastest non-PCIe drive available at chepest price. If there was ever any doubt or anxiety about buying a SSD, look no further than this drive.

Pros: The price good for an SSD with these marketed speeds - will hopefully spark some decent competition in the market. Corsair quality. 7.9 on the Windows experience. Packaging is not overdone and the included bracket is decent.

Cons: Asynchronous NAND. Don't know if this will make much of a real difference - we will see as the reviews start to trickle through. No SATA3 cable is included - though I tend not to trust bundled SATA cables anyway.

Overall Review: I installed Windows 7 on it a day ago and have not had any BSOD or freezing/pausing problems. I don't usually buy things so new that reviews aren't in, but I have always been happy with Corsair products and the Force line has earned good reviews. I haven't had time to run it through any real benchmarks, but if you are concerned about any early launch bugs, there are none so far with current drivers. This drive works well and is fast. Intel 2600K P8Z68-V Pro 8Gb Corsair Vengeance MSI Twin Frozr II gtx570

Pros: Fast when it works

Cons: Despite Corsair's assurances (and OCZs and every other manufacturer using SandForce 2281 controllers), these drives still do not work for many people. If you're feeling lucky, go ahead and pull the trigger. If you're not lucky this, my friend, is what's in store for you: A drive that is very fast when it works but will drop out every few hours/days causing multiple BSODs and possible data loss. The BIOS won't see your drive and you'll have to do a hard reset to get it to show up again. So if you like living on the hairy edge of data loss, go ahead and get this drive. If you'd rather not worry about your hard drive, then STAY AWAY!

Overall Review: Corsair would like to be helpful, but there is nothing they can do at the moment to help people who have problems with this drive. RMAing for a different drive hasn't helped anyone and there is no firmware update on the horizon. I HIGHLY SUGGEST THAT YOU DO NOT BUY THIS DRIVE AT THIS TIME (7/22/11).

Pros: Fast--ATTO says I get up to 1060 MB/s for 2 of these in RAID 0.

Cons: My 1123/1124 revision raid array is getting BSOD's every 30 minutes or so. Not sure which drive it is, but both are supposed to be the "fixed" ones.

Overall Review: Fast drives...but they're still not stable enough yet to warrant buying.

Pros: Bought two of these drives because of the specs and rebate/promotion (note: rebate code on Newegg's form isn't found on Corsair's rebate web site, so I don't have high hopes in receiving a rebate).

Cons: Just like some of the others, I too am experiencing the BSOD issues as well as one of the drives not always being recognized in the BIOS. If I perform a cold boot, both drives are detected, but after a few minutes I get a BSOD and only one drive appears in the BIOS. The Corsair user forums are filled with other people complaining about the same problem. In addition, the Newegg rebate form promotion code isn't found on Corsair's rebate site. I contacted Newegg support via chat and they were unable to shed any light on the issue. I'm still waiting on a follow-up e-mail.

Overall Review: Everything from the fact one drive doesn't work properly to the Newegg rebate form not found on Corsair's rebate site has resulted in a very disappointing experience.

Pros: Fairly fast when used with sata 3 controller although nowhere near reported speeds. I got to about 410 with atto. Of course this is with the crummy marvell controller on my Gig x58a-udr3 2.0 FF board so...

Cons: I suppose I have been luckier than most with no mouse freezing so far but there have been unexplained crashes and one drive loss in the bios which was a pain to get back up. This shouldn't be happening with a fresh install of 7 Ult. x64 on a brand new $200 SSD.

Overall Review: I've been building systems for 15 years. I don't have time to look at pages and pages of support forums. I've set my ram voltage. Only one unexplained crash in the last couple of days when I stepped away from the computer. Seems to involve sleep. I could probably use this on a sata II controller without issues but that's not what I payed for and I'm not going use my system without sleep... New egg will not accept returns and continues to sell this drive with all the well documented issues. So I have a $200 OS SSD drive that is not reliable. Just to note I have another ssd in my system that has performed flawlessly for the last year +. Here's hoping and praying that Corsair gets an update out that actually fixes this soon otherwise we all have a worthless $200 brick... Cheers to all the other pay to test chumps!