The American hardware manufacturer Corsair has released a new series of solid state drives released. The Force LS series is especially designed as a budget ssd that as an upgrade in existing systems would need to be.
The new LS-series in the Force family of Corsair have a midrange controller on board. The relatively unknown flashcontroller from the 3100 series of Phison is used to flashchips Toshiba to send. The Force LS ssds feature a sata-600 interface, which speeds of up to 555MB/s and write speeds up to 535MB/s can be achieved. The specified speed limits are of course sequential data transfer speeds: Corsair made no other figures, such as the number of iops, are known.
The company reports that the Force LS drives modern features such as trim, garbage collection and smart commands support. The ssd’s have a slightly thinner casing than standard the 7mm high 2.5-inch drives should be compatible with a large number of laptops. The Force LS series is in three capacities, 60GB, 120GB and 240GB available. The smallest drive will cost in their home country the United States is $ 70; the 120GB version costs $ 110, and the biggest drive should be 200-dollar fee.
Update 11.50: The drives are also available in the Netherlands for respectively about 60, 100 and 180 euros for the 60GB, 120GB and 240GB drives.