Corsair’s speedy, flaming red Force GT SSD goes on sale this month for $149 and up

Jul 5th 2011
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Corsairs speedy, flaming red Force GT SSD goes on sale this month for 9 and up

Corsair’s Force GT solid-state drives caught our eye earlier this year, and their fire engine-red shells were only half the rationale. These bad boys also promise as much as 85,000 random write IOPS and are rated for impressive read / write speeds of 550 MBps and 525 MBps — a shade higher than the specs being bandied-about when Corsair showed it off back in March. The drive also supports SATA 3, is backward-compatible with SATA 2, and ships with a three.5-inch adapter that’ll work with both desktops and laptops. Seek it this month in two sizes: 60GB ($149) and 120GB ($279). No word, alas, at the 240GB version that was strutting its stuff at the show floor in Hanover, Germany . PR after the break.

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Corsair Announces Shipment of Force Series GT Solid-State Drives
– New high-performance line takes full benefit of SATA 6Gb/s technology –

FREMONT, California – June 30th, 2011 – Corsair®, a global designer and supplier of high-performance components to the computer gaming hardware market, today announced the primary shipments of the Force Series™ GT line of solid-state drives.

The brand new Force Series GT is designed for enthusiasts who demand the fastest performance available. It uses the hot SandForce SF-2280 SSD Processor, with native support for SATA 6Gb/s (SATA 3), combined with ONFI synchronous flash memory. Force Series GT SSDs deliver outstanding read/write performance and significantly faster system response, boot times, and alertness load times than SATA 2 solid-state drives, without-of-box performance of as much as 85K Random Write IOPS, read speeds of as much as 555 MB/s, and write speeds of as much as 525 MB/s. Using synchronous flash memory makes the Force GT Series particularly adept at reading and writing non-compressible data, reminiscent of video and music files.

All Force Series GT models also are backward compatible with SATA 2, and include an effortless-to-use 3.5″ adapter to be used in both notebook and desktop PCs.

“With the rapid adoption of systems with SATA 3 support, enthusiasts are demanding SSDs that could push the limit of SATA 3 bandwidth,” said Thi La, Vice chairman of Memory Products at Corsair. “The hot Force Series GT line delivers amazing speed under essentially the mostsome of the most demanding conditions, making them ideal for top-performance systems.”

Force Series GT SSDs are currently shipping to Corsair’s network of authorized distributors and retailers worldwide and should be available in July at a US suggested retail price of $149 USD for the 60GB model and $279 USD for the 120GB model. Note that stated capacities are unformatted and actual capacities will vary counting on the formatting and operating system used. For additional information on Force Series GT solid-state drives, please visit the Corsair website online.

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