Replacing your hard disk with a Corsair Nova Series Solid State Drive (SSD) will revolutionize your computing experience. Games and applications load quicker, systems boot-up faster, run cooler and quieter. Lower power consumption will give notebooks/netbooks an extension to their battery life with the Nova Series.
Built on the Indilinx Barefoot controller, Corsair’s Nova Series deliver read speeds up to 270MB/s and write speeds up to 195MB/s, plus reliability and compatibility for your notebook, netbook, and desktop solid-state storage needs. Built-in 64MB of cache ensures smooth stutter-free operation for reliable performance. With storage capacities up to 128GB, a Nova Series model exists for your storage and performance needs.
SSD Storage TechnologyUnlike 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 SSDs translate to extended battery life. Higher performance with more durability means you can be truly mobile with confidence.
Better Performance & ReliabilityUtilizing the Indilinx Barefoot controller and Intel fast performance MLC NAND flash memory, the Nova Series solid-state drives deliver incredible performance and reliability. The Nova Series V32 comes with a maximum sequential read speed of 195 MB/s and maximum sequential write speed of 70 MB/s. In addition, integrated onboard 64MB cache ensures smooth operations.
TRIM SupportThe Corsair Nova Series SSDs 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 SSDs 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.
Flexible use - 2.5" to 3.5" Adapter IncludedThe Corsair Nova Series V32 is specifically designed for notebooks/netbooks coming in a 2.5-inch hard drive form factor. A 2.5" to 3.5" bracket is included for matching with 3.5” drive bay to extend the storage of your desktop computer.
Pros: Read performance is excellent for an SSD of this price. Games that use Texture Streaming systems like Crysis will benefit with drives like this due to the virtually non-existent seek time. It has TRIM support. If you want an SSD, you will want a drive with support for TRIM, so that performance doesn't go down the tubes as it fills up. Remember only Windows 7 has support for TRIM.
Cons: Write performance is decent, large file writes are best, small writes can cause a little stuttering. Annoying bracket, since SSD's lack moving parts, I just taped it to the side of my comp case. You won't get a lot on this drive. I got windows 7 and Crysis to fit with only a few GB's left. If you want to keep your entire library of games on an SSD, you'll need a much bigger one. With this one, you might have to swap games.
Overall Review: Do NOT disable the paging file with an SSD. Many apps are designed to use the paging file and will crash without it. Disabling it will not increase performance. Do NOT disable Superfetch, unless you have very little RAM (under 2GB). Superfetch will still improve performance when loading commonly used apps, even with SSD's. Do NOT disable Prefetching. It does not cache stuff in RAM, it just index's often used app's DLL locations. The prefetch folder rarely is larger than 4MB. Move the pagefile to a Hard Drive. Not only will the pagefile quickly kill an SSD due to the massive amounts of writes required, you'll get a lot of stuttering due to small writes being an area most SSD's suck at. If you want performance, get a RAM Disk for the pagefile. Don't disable Texture Streaming Systems in games like Crysis, or force preloading of game data. The SSD will serve up data extremely fast on the fly, forcing everything into RAM will just waste RAM space, for a very minimal quality boos