Wired Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 http://www.corsair.com/solid-state-drives/performance-3-series.html Performance 3 Series solid-state drives combine the latest Marvell controller and supercharged synchronous NAND to eliminate bottlenecks and provide the serious 6Gbps SATA III bandwidth you need for cutting edge video and graphics Corsair Performance 3 Series SSDs offer more robust background garbage collection for consistent read and write speeds from day 1 to day 101. Sandybridge Press Release based on the Marvell 9174 controller and designed to take full advantage of the SATA 6Gbps (SATA Revision 3.0) support native to the new Intel chipsets full support for the TRIM command and background garbage collection Performance 3 Series SSDs are expected to be available in late January 2011. Sequential Read/Write (using ATTO Disk Benchmark) up to: [TABLE=head]Model|Read|Write P3-64|365 MB/s|110 MB/s P3-128|410 MB/s|210 MB/s P3-256|480 MB/s|320 MB/s[/TABLE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phillyman36 Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Any word on pricing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NfiniteZERO Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Definitely like those numbers. Will be watching for pricing when I build my next box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eva2000 Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 Yup definitely on top of my wish list - good move opting for marvel instead of sandforce as non-compressible data performance is much better :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xgman Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 plus 1!!! on my shopping list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xgman Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Corsair told me 1/25 when I called the reseller department. Any prices posted yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted January 20, 2011 Corsair Employees Share Posted January 20, 2011 I don't see anyone listing them just yet but I would keep checking on http://www.Pricegrabber.com as they will likely show up there first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paesan Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Wow, I am glad I came on this site today. I just built a Sandy Bridge sytem and was about to get the only available other brand ssd sata3 drive. I will definitely hold off and wait to see how much these drives will be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted January 21, 2011 Corsair Employees Share Posted January 21, 2011 I would expect some resellers to have stock in the next 7-10 days so they should should start showing up verry soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLS Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 This page: http://www.corsair.com/performance-3-series-p3-256-solid-state-hard-drive.html claims the drive comes with no warranty (under tech specs tab). Is this true? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted January 22, 2011 Author Share Posted January 22, 2011 http://www.corsair.com/support/warranty All solid-state drive (SSD) products have a 3 year warranty I'll notify them of the error on the website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xgman Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 shouldn't prices be posted by now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xgman Posted January 25, 2011 Share Posted January 25, 2011 Just ordered a 256 P3 at newegg $607.99 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paesan Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 Just ordered a 256 P3 at newegg $607.99 The speed difference in the 128 and 256 has me debating on which to buy. My funds however are bringing me to buy the 128. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synbios Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 The speed difference in the 128 and 256 has me debating on which to buy. My funds however are bringing me to buy the 128. You are also paying for space though too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xgman Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 The way I figure it, I'm not going to pay any premium for an SSD and then be constantly worrying about running out of space. Pay now or pay later basically. Anyway, received the drive today. Psyched to get it cloned over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paesan Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 The way I figure it, I'm not going to pay any premium for an SSD and then be constantly worrying about running out of space. Pay now or pay later basically. Anyway, received the drive today. Psyched to get it cloned over. Very true if money is not an issue. However, I have only a fixed amount of cash to spend so I must compromise and get the 128 gig drive. Trust me if I could afford the 256 gig drive I would buy it. NewEgg decided to increase the price of the 256 gig drive to $659 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xgman Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Then again, you might want to wait. My P3-256 came DOA. Would not initialize in PC or Mac or anywhere. kept saying i/o error, can't allocate memory when trying to initialize or format etc. :mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squuiid Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 I cannot believe NE just upped the price from $599 to $650! Very disappointed. $599 was pushing the limit, that extra $50 will make me look elsewhere for a 256MB drive. Short sighted move. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paesan Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 I cannot believe NE just upped the price from $599 to $650! Very disappointed. $599 was pushing the limit, that extra $50 will make me look elsewhere for a 256MB drive. Short sighted move. Lol, NE went up agian, it is now $699 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paesan Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 Then again, you might want to wait. My P3-256 came DOA. Would not initialize in PC or Mac or anywhere. kept saying i/o error, can't allocate memory when trying to initialize or format etc. :mad: Too late I already ordered it and it will arrive today. It should have been delivered yesterday but the snow delayed my delivery. I will let you know how my drive works out 128 gig. Sorry to hear yours was DOA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squuiid Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 Lol, NE went up agian, it is now $699 LOL, just saw. They're crazy. Defo not worth that cash. 1st review of the 256GB model on NE is one star. DOA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squuiid Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 LOL, just saw. They're crazy. Defo not worth that cash. 1st review of the 256GB model on NE is one star. DOA. OK.... now it has gone up to $709.99. What?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synbios Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 OK.... now it has gone up to $709.99. What?! Newegg is insane sometimes... At least it's better than the used one posted on Amazon for 800. http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0026V5MY0/ref=dp_olp_used_mbc?ie=UTF8&condition=used Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forgetfool Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 Just got my P3-256 as a replacement for an impossible to configure Ibis drive (NewEgg is great). This is my first SSD and I'm terrified of screwin' something up. The system is currently running/booting on an older set of (4) Raptor platter drives in RAID 0. What would be the simplest way to install the neww SSD and copy/clone the RAID info onto the new drive, or should I just start from scratch? Acronis, et al, or is there a simpler way? Also loaded newest Marvel drivers for my SATA3 controller but have read cautions on using. Any comment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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