All results were obtained at 4600MHz s on a normal install of Windows 7 64-bit.
These are our results, yours may vary so only use these as a guideline for a similarly configured system
Drive
Average Read
Average Write
4K Read(QD32)
4K Write
(QD32)
Read IOPS
Write IOPS
Maximum IO
response time
(ms)
Corsair Neutron
GTX 240GB
473.6
496
294.3
316.2
76753.7
83326.26
8.3643
Corsair Neutron
240GB
457.3
370.9
284.9
307.9
76642.4
82769.19
11.2734
* In MB/s
“These Neutron drives are more
than what we had expected of
CORSAIR’s new line of SSDs. It’s
mind boggling to see this kind of
performance at this price...”
see any other SSDs in the
results chart, but suffice to
say it’s pretty obvious that the
Neutron drive s are peerless
thus far in performance.
The claimed IOPS results
were of particular interest to
us as they were so close to
what CORSAIR was claiming.
Usually the numbers we
obtained were significantly
lower (for a variety of
reasons, including the testing
suite and methodology) than
what manufacturers claimed,
but nevertheless were
repeatable.
For the first time ever
we not only saw write
performance that was better
than already impressive read
performance, but the lowest
average response times as
well. CORSAIR has done
well with this combination of
parts, making the Neutron
series the drives to beat
around here.
There isn’t much else to say
about these. CORSAIR has
come out with a new series
that’s pretty much set the
standard for consumer level
SSDs. It remains to be seen
what kinds of improvements
will come with future drives
in the series and what
competitors are going to do
to get ahead, but right now,
these drives are near perfect
in our eyes.
[ The OverClocker ]
Summary
These Neutron drives are
more than what we had
expected of CORSAIR’s
new line of SSDs. It’s mind
boggling to see this kind of
performance at this price,
without the shenanigans of
other popular drives based
of SandForce controllers.
For uncompromising
performance there’s little
else out there that can
challenge the Neutron
series.
Would you buy it?
Most certainly we would
purchase these. They are
simply the fastest drives
we’ve ever tested.
The Score
9/10
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