Belial_69699 Posted December 30, 2013 Share Posted December 30, 2013 Hey all. I've currently got a Corsair Force GS 180gig (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233311 for exact specs) SSD and I love it. I will never, ever go back to using a regular hard drive for my boot drive again. Its so fast. I still use a 750gig Western Digital Black drive for my music, videos ect but for my Windows, games and other essential programs I use the SSD. Anyway, I'll get to the point. My SSD is almost full, I've got like 7gigs free out of 167 (I even get a little warning message that I need to clear up some space..). So I've been debating to go up to say a 240gig SSD. I've seen Corsair came out with the Neutron series though and was wondering if I should stick with my current GS series or switch to a Neutron series? I mainly use my rig for gaming (WoW, SWTOR, WoT ect), watch movies on it and do some work and school work on it. So which series would be the most ideal to switch (or stay) with if I'm mostly using my rig for gaming? Thanks in advance, I appreciate the feed back! :sunglasse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belial_69699 Posted December 30, 2013 Author Share Posted December 30, 2013 Wow, nothing? :bigeyes: Guess everyone is still passed out from Christmas dinner. :laughing: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exposed Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 I'm enjoying the Neutron series atm. Seems to work really well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowbeard Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 From my personal usage, you cannot truly go wrong with anything we sell. My preference is the Neutron or Neutron GTX drives. Bullet proof, rock solid, fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belial_69699 Posted December 31, 2013 Author Share Posted December 31, 2013 From my personal usage, you cannot truly go wrong with anything we sell. My preference is the Neutron or Neutron GTX drives. Bullet proof, rock solid, fast. What's the real difference between the Neutron series vs the GS series that I'm using? Is one or the other really any faster/more responsive than the other? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JKeifer Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 I think the current drives from any of the major manufacturers are going to work out well for you should you choose to up-size. That being said, I think a jump to 240 would provide a minimum of relief and you'd be bumping up against the limits in short order. I'd recommend more if you can afford it or, if you can, jump to a RAID0 by adding another drive like the one you have. That would put you at 360GB and you would probably see a performance increase as well. In the interim, you could consider moving your swap file and hibernation file, if you use it, to your mechanical hard drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belial_69699 Posted December 31, 2013 Author Share Posted December 31, 2013 When I had bought my GS I thought 180 would be more than enough for the few programs that I was using at the time, then I ended up trying out a couple more MMO games and added a couple more software programs and yeah.. lol. I'm still debating between getting another GS (with more gigs of course) or going with the Neutron GTX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 According to the product pages. The Force GS uses a Sandforce Controller while the Neutron GTX uses a LAMD controller. Force GS 180GB http://www.corsair.com/us/ssd/force-series-gs-ssd/force-series-gs-180gb-sata-3-6gb-s-solid-state-hard-drive.html Max Sequential R/W (ATTO) 555 MB/s sequential read 525 MB/s sequential write Neutron Series GTX 240GB http://www.corsair.com/us/ssd/neutron-series-gtx-ssd/neutron-series-gtx-240gb-sata-3-6gbs-ssd-gtxb.html Neutron 240GB Max Sequential Read Performance: up to 555 MB/s Max Sequential Write Performance: up to 511 MB/s Max Random Write (4k Aligned): Up to 85K IOPS Max Random Read (4k Aligned): Up to 90K IOPS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belial_69699 Posted January 3, 2014 Author Share Posted January 3, 2014 To me that looks like the GS series is the faster of the two then, unless I am misunderstand the information here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowbeard Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 http://forum.corsair.com/v3/showpost.php?p=601260&postcount=2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeeVassallo Posted January 9, 2014 Share Posted January 9, 2014 Have you considered another ssd in raid 0 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belial_69699 Posted January 13, 2014 Author Share Posted January 13, 2014 Have you considered another ssd in raid 0 ? Not sure I like the idea of Raid 0. Isn't it true if you have 2 drives in Raid 0 and one drive fails they both fail and lose all data? Correct me if I'm wrong. :confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 If one drive fails, the second drive won't fail (hardware wise) with the first one. The data stored on the RAID array is gone though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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