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- Fast - Games and apps load faster, Windows is more responsive
- Compatible - The P256 is extensively validated in major computing platforms
- Stutter free - Samsung controller ensures smooth performance, unlike that of cheaper SSDs
- Silent - No moving parts means zero noise and high reliability
- Low power - Longer battery life for laptop users means greater productivity.
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The ideal ultra-performance storage solution. Replacing your hard disk drive with the Corsair P256 SSD will revolutionize your computing experience. Games launch quicker, your computer starts faster, multiple applications run much smoother, all while running cool and silent. Corsair's P256 SSD is the optimum SSD for your mobile or desktop computing needs. Its 220MB/s read speed and 180MB/s write speed provide outstanding performance, while the ultra-large 256GB drive capacity provides ample storage for lots of applications, music, pictures and video. Proven Samsung technology guarantees out of the box performance and stability without the need to adjust complex system-level settings or update firmware. The speed, capacity, and compatibility of the P256 are supported by the inherent reliability of solid state technology, resulting in a truly optimum solution for your mass storage requirements.
Product Description
Corsair solid state disk drives set a new standard for reliability in desktop and notebook storage solutions. Corsair solid state disk drives utilize specially selected ICs to enable a life expectancy of over 100 years and impact resistance up to 1500Gs. Unlike traditional mechanical hard disk drives Corsair solid state disk drives have no moving parts. This results in faster system responsiveness quieter operation and reduced overall system temperatures.
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88 of 90 people found the following review helpful
Fastest drive in the world, a user experience
27 May 2009
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I just got this yesterday after a long weekend wait and let me tell you this thing rocks. And it rocks fast :). I am going to give you a review on a perspective of real world use and not on benchmark with all the numbers, not yet anyways.
I bought this for my MacBook Pro unibody and it is the best upgrade I have ever done. The speed is just simply mind boggling. I was shocked on how fast everything is. I am not talking about user wishful thinking, bias opinion of the speed gain, I am talking about screaming fast, jaw dropping speed. To give you some ideas on how fast this thing boots up, with the original stock drive, I got out a stop watch and timed it (not very scientific here but it'll do) and it took 1 minutes and 46 secs to cold boot the MacBook Pro into the desktop. With this new SSD, it took 22 seconds.
Applications loading is extremely fast as well. I mean, as soon as you hit the icon, the app is already fully loaded. I have a 8000 songs iTunes library plus about 40+ movies and 10 TV shows and iTunes loaded with lighting speed. It used to take at least a full minute to fully load iTunes, now it takes, literally 1 to 2 seconds (yes you read correct 1 to 2 secs to fully load iTunes).
I also have Photo collections with several thousands pics and it took, are you ready? It took 2.2 seconds to load the entire library. How cool is that?
Safari and FireFox are both stunning in loading speed with about 8 tabs of web pages.
My machine was running fairly cool with the old drive but when watching movies, the machine gets warm or sometimes hot to touch. With this SSD, I watched a full length 2 hour movie and the bottom of the MB Pro is steel cold. The fan never kicked on the entire movie. In fact I have not heard the fan since yesterday. To be fair, the MB Pro is so efficient that I never had any problem with heat or hear the fan noise but with the SSD drive, it is just dead quite. Very strange to use a completely noiseless and steel cold to the touch notebook.
About the drive. I did extensive research and found that this is one of the very best right now, watch out Intel (I think Intel still is the King). Before you get turned off my the name Corsair, it is really a Samsung drive with Samsung RAM chips and controller. Samsung has its own version of 256GB SSD but they only sell to OEM and not regular folks like you and me.
A tip:
Installation of the drive into MB Pro is very simple. Remove one screw that holds the drive and remove the 4 screws on the old drive (need special screw driver for these 4 screws). There is a video from OWC computing that shows exactly how to do it.
Painless upgrade:
I first put the SSD drive into an external USB enclosure. Downloaded SuperDuper, a free program to clone my old existing drive to the new SSD. Installed the SSD into MB Pro and boot it up. The first time booting up with SSD took a lot longer than what I stated earlier. I believe the OS needs to do some configuration for it first. After another reboot, the speed was astonishing.
I know that this is not cheap and I hear you. But if you want the joy of the greatest upgrade ever in the history of upgrading, this drive is the drive to get. Also, DO NOT go cheap on SSD drives. You get what you paid for. All SSDs are not created equal. Go do some research before buying but if you want to listen to someone who already did the research, read anything and everything on SSDs for years, then run, don't walk and buy this awesome drive.
I bought this for my MacBook Pro unibody and it is the best upgrade I have ever done. The speed is just simply mind boggling. I was shocked on how fast everything is. I am not talking about user wishful thinking, bias opinion of the speed gain, I am talking about screaming fast, jaw dropping speed. To give you some ideas on how fast this thing boots up, with the original stock drive, I got out a stop watch and timed it (not very scientific here but it'll do) and it took 1 minutes and 46 secs to cold boot the MacBook Pro into the desktop. With this new SSD, it took 22 seconds.
Applications loading is extremely fast as well. I mean, as soon as you hit the icon, the app is already fully loaded. I have a 8000 songs iTunes library plus about 40+ movies and 10 TV shows and iTunes loaded with lighting speed. It used to take at least a full minute to fully load iTunes, now it takes, literally 1 to 2 seconds (yes you read correct 1 to 2 secs to fully load iTunes).
I also have Photo collections with several thousands pics and it took, are you ready? It took 2.2 seconds to load the entire library. How cool is that?
Safari and FireFox are both stunning in loading speed with about 8 tabs of web pages.
My machine was running fairly cool with the old drive but when watching movies, the machine gets warm or sometimes hot to touch. With this SSD, I watched a full length 2 hour movie and the bottom of the MB Pro is steel cold. The fan never kicked on the entire movie. In fact I have not heard the fan since yesterday. To be fair, the MB Pro is so efficient that I never had any problem with heat or hear the fan noise but with the SSD drive, it is just dead quite. Very strange to use a completely noiseless and steel cold to the touch notebook.
About the drive. I did extensive research and found that this is one of the very best right now, watch out Intel (I think Intel still is the King). Before you get turned off my the name Corsair, it is really a Samsung drive with Samsung RAM chips and controller. Samsung has its own version of 256GB SSD but they only sell to OEM and not regular folks like you and me.
A tip:
Installation of the drive into MB Pro is very simple. Remove one screw that holds the drive and remove the 4 screws on the old drive (need special screw driver for these 4 screws). There is a video from OWC computing that shows exactly how to do it.
Painless upgrade:
I first put the SSD drive into an external USB enclosure. Downloaded SuperDuper, a free program to clone my old existing drive to the new SSD. Installed the SSD into MB Pro and boot it up. The first time booting up with SSD took a lot longer than what I stated earlier. I believe the OS needs to do some configuration for it first. After another reboot, the speed was astonishing.
I know that this is not cheap and I hear you. But if you want the joy of the greatest upgrade ever in the history of upgrading, this drive is the drive to get. Also, DO NOT go cheap on SSD drives. You get what you paid for. All SSDs are not created equal. Go do some research before buying but if you want to listen to someone who already did the research, read anything and everything on SSDs for years, then run, don't walk and buy this awesome drive.
32 of 32 people found the following review helpful
Agree with the other reviewers
12 Jun 2009
I have a Thinkpad X200s and ordered it with a 7200 rpm drive thinking it would make the machine "faster". I have had it for several months and quite frankly have been disappointed with its speed. I was about to sell it on eBay when this drive came out. I figured I would try it in the X200s, it being a breeze to install before selling the Thinkpad. If it didn't make the X200s faster, I would just put it into my desktop. Truth be told, I had low expectations as I already had a "fast" drive installed and assumed the slowness was a result of the other hardware in the X200s
Used Acronis, cloned my X200s, stuck the drive in and all I can say is AMAZING!!! What a difference. Anyone, I mean anyone wanting the best 2.5lb notebook should order the x200s with the cheapest drive and replace it with this amazing drive. It works like magic. I get about 30 minutes additional battery life with the 4 cell battery and can go over 10 hours with the 9 cell battery-all with much better performance and running the screen at full brightness.
Great product.
UPDATE:
Having sold my Macpro, I took my Intel SSD and placed it into my X200S and put the Corsair into my (old) Unibody 15". I already had a fast drive in there (at least I thought). The Macbook Pro now flies. Faster than my external G-Tech Raid 0. When upgrading the Mac, make sure you have a TORX 6 screwdriver as the newer Unibodies have a mechanism that require Torx 6 screws to be removed from the original drive placed on the new one so it seats firmly.
Also if using on a Macbook Pro and intending to use it with Bootcamp, let me save you hours. First thing to do is reformat the drive booting off your restore CD/DVD. Select utilities, reformat and then go to "Partitions" in the utility and select 1 Mac partition and further select GUID. Then you can clone your old drive so that the new one can be used with Boot Camp. This took me hours to figure out.
This drive continues to amaze me.
Used Acronis, cloned my X200s, stuck the drive in and all I can say is AMAZING!!! What a difference. Anyone, I mean anyone wanting the best 2.5lb notebook should order the x200s with the cheapest drive and replace it with this amazing drive. It works like magic. I get about 30 minutes additional battery life with the 4 cell battery and can go over 10 hours with the 9 cell battery-all with much better performance and running the screen at full brightness.
Great product.
UPDATE:
Having sold my Macpro, I took my Intel SSD and placed it into my X200S and put the Corsair into my (old) Unibody 15". I already had a fast drive in there (at least I thought). The Macbook Pro now flies. Faster than my external G-Tech Raid 0. When upgrading the Mac, make sure you have a TORX 6 screwdriver as the newer Unibodies have a mechanism that require Torx 6 screws to be removed from the original drive placed on the new one so it seats firmly.
Also if using on a Macbook Pro and intending to use it with Bootcamp, let me save you hours. First thing to do is reformat the drive booting off your restore CD/DVD. Select utilities, reformat and then go to "Partitions" in the utility and select 1 Mac partition and further select GUID. Then you can clone your old drive so that the new one can be used with Boot Camp. This took me hours to figure out.
This drive continues to amaze me.
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Amazing.
4 July 2009
This will be a short review.
This device is amazing in my Early 2008 MacBook Pro (2.66 Penryn + 4GB RAM + NVIDIA 512GB 9600GT). Everything is instantaneous -- i.e., app launching is 2 to 20 times faster, web browsing in Safari is instantaneous, opening huge directories of files is instant and all icons appear instantly. My Boot time went from 2:20 (two minutes twenty) to less than 23 seconds. MS Word 2008 went from 2:35 to 17 seconds (I have a lot of fonts installed.) Photoshop launches in less than 5 seconds. Lightroom launches in less than 10 with over 20,000 photos in the library. Redraws are instant.
My entire system is lag-free, silent, and cool. This is absolutely the best upgrade you can get for any price. You could double or even triple the processor speed and not get this performance. It's insane. insanely good.
This device is amazing in my Early 2008 MacBook Pro (2.66 Penryn + 4GB RAM + NVIDIA 512GB 9600GT). Everything is instantaneous -- i.e., app launching is 2 to 20 times faster, web browsing in Safari is instantaneous, opening huge directories of files is instant and all icons appear instantly. My Boot time went from 2:20 (two minutes twenty) to less than 23 seconds. MS Word 2008 went from 2:35 to 17 seconds (I have a lot of fonts installed.) Photoshop launches in less than 5 seconds. Lightroom launches in less than 10 with over 20,000 photos in the library. Redraws are instant.
My entire system is lag-free, silent, and cool. This is absolutely the best upgrade you can get for any price. You could double or even triple the processor speed and not get this performance. It's insane. insanely good.
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