Corsair Nova Series SSD drives provide the performance and benefits of a solid-state drive at an attractive price. Their lower capacities make them ideal for use as boot drives, working in tandem with a second hard drive for file storage.
The price that's rightWith solid-state drive, your system boots faster and applications and large files load more quickly, so you can spend less time waiting and more time working... or playing. Nova Series 2 gives you more SSD boot drive capacity for your money. SSD upgrades shouldn't be reserved just for high-end systems. Virtually any PC's performance can be dramatically improved with an SSD boot drive, and the economical Nova Series 2 helps make that possible.
TRIM SupportNova Series 2 SSDs feature support for the Windows 7 TRIM command. This allows for efficient drive optimization to ensure the fastest possible read and write speeds.
SSD Benefits – Reliability, Cool and Quiet, with Low Power ConsumptionBecause SSDs have no moving parts, they can handle shock, vibration and temperature changes far in excess of traditional hard drives. That's important for desktop PCs, and essential for notebooks. Traditional mechanical hard drives spin at thousands of revolutions per minute. This takes power, and generates noise and heat. Since SSDs have no moving parts, there's no noise or vibration, and the lower power consumption helps keep things cool inside your PC.
Pros: These SSD's are going to be the future, no doubt about it. They are fast, use less power and are smaller. This one fits my HTPC's needs and helped when installing in to a small case.
Cons: A couple of things, first not all SSD's are created equal. Be advised there are 2 types, Asynchronous and Synchronous. This information is NOT provided on the packaging and with good reason. Asynchronous are lower performing SSD's. Testing has been done and prove that when an SSD with Asynchronous is 50% full of data, it will lose about 48-62% of their performance. Testing was done reading data from Windows Defender, Windows 7 Start up, Multimedia, Windows Photo Gallery, Gaming, Launching Adobe, copying compressed and uncompressed files, etc. In all cases, the fuller the SSD drive, the slower it was. Synchronous drives do not have this issue. As the drive gets full, it loses around 3-9% in the same tests. So consumers, be aware of this. Buy these products knowing this, I bring this up because most testing (and even by the manufacturer) are all done by installing Windows and then testing, but the "real" world we have pictures, videos, Excel sheets, Outlook, etc.
Overall Review: The consumer has to go to the website and have to dig deep for this information. ALL manufacturers are doing this, not making the information available. Again, buy these SSD's knowing this. When after 6 months of use it is really slow, you will now know why.