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For historical reasons, solid-state drives at the beginning of their expansion in the market most interested in manufacturers of overclocker memory modules. Later in this young and promising segment of the market leaked as new players, and manufacturers of classical drives. Not without alliances: Many storage vendors, for example, actively cooperating with the company Samsung, and Kingston started to develop this segment with the active support of Intel.

Development of the solid-state drives is much easier life to those who are going to sell them under its brand. Now solid-state drives can be virtually “assemble to order” – is enough to determine the suppliers of memory and controllers. Against this backdrop, manufacturers are actively updating their product range. For example, according to a British site Hexus, the company Corsair is preparing for the announcement of new series of solid state drives, which have already seen in local stores.

Judging by the stated read and write speed (250 Mb / s and 170 Mb / s), the family drives Corsair Reactor fall into the product line Performance Series. Drives of 60 and 120 GB are equipped with 128 MB of cache. Slightly more expensive drives family Corsair Nova uses popular controller Indilinx Barefoot, provides high-speed readings up to 215 Mb / s and write speeds up to 195 Mbps. Sales volume patterns observed 64 and 128 GB, they probably propishutsya in the line of Extreme Series. Drives both families initially supported the function TRIM.

The site Hexus said in passing that the Corsair is preparing for the announcement of coaxial solid-state drive capacity of 512 GB, which will be placed in the body size 3.5 “. He will receive 128 MB of cache, and read and write speed will reach 200 Mb / s and 240 Mb / s, respectively . It seems that in one case, two enclosed storage capacity of 256 GB, running in RAID 0. Fans of high speeds and large volumes of new items can scare a high price.

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