Corsair goes against the flow with new SSDs

Respected and established memory manufacturer Corsair has chosen to wait and watch where the emerging SSD market is heading. It has chosen to do so even though it is technically very close to this market and it would have seemed like a very natural way of expanding its product lineup. It has now finally decided to enter the market with the S128 model. As the name implies it is harddrive with 128 GB capacity, but read and write speeds at only 90MB/s and 70MB/s respectively. This may sound low, but Corsair claims that its SSD is still superior, thanks to its memory controller.This is because most of the competing products use the JMicron602 memory controller, while Corsair has used a controller and NAND flash chips from Samsung. The reason for this is that JMicron602 has known issues with handling fast writes of small files, which is what a system drive is supposed to be good at. The root of the problem is often said being how the operating system handles Solid State Drives and optimizations have resulted in decent improvements, but just like Intel Corsair has developed a solution that works around this problem.

Source: NordicHardware