pcauthority.com.au Updated: 2015-09-24 12:25:38
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C orsair has entered an SSD market that's saturated with brands and models, with little to differentiate. Ever the image-proud company, Corsair is playing at the top end, with its new Neutron XT SSDs, up against the best Samsung, SanDisk and Intel have to...
Solid performance as a great price...
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Component manufacturer Corsair is jumping back into the solid-state drive (SSD) fray with the announcement of the Neutron XT - destined to become the highest-performing consumer SSD in its arsenal. Said Neutron XT is due to be made available in the Januar...
Excellent performance, Fast in every scenario, Solid feature set, Looks the business...
Pricing is unknown...
Corsair is unveiling its latest SSDs two months before widespread release. The Neutron XT is designed to offer class-leading performance by pairing the all-new Phison PS-3110-S10 controller with established MLC NAND from Toshiba. Our look at pre-producti...
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Component manufacturer Corsair is jumping back into the solid-state drive (SSD) fray with the announcement of the Neutron XT - destined to become the highest-performing consumer SSD in its arsenal. Said Neutron XT is due to be made available in the Januar...
Excellent performance, Fast in every scenario, Solid feature set, Looks the business...
Pricing is unknown, 'Only' 3year warranty...
Corsair is unveiling its latest SSDs two months before widespread release. The Neutron XT is designed to offer class-leading performance by pairing the all-new Phison PS-3110-S10 controller with established MLC NAND from Toshiba. Our look at pre-producti...
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The Corsair Neutron Series XT SSDs are designed to provide a happy median between high performance enthusiasts and multimedia professionals. Corsair indicates that it can achieve this by offering consumers high performance, high capacity, high consistency...
Great feature set to optimize for reliability, Impressive performance in the majority of our benchmarks, Low power consumption...
Poor performance in server mixed-workloads...
The Corsair Neutron Series XT offers enthusiasts and media professionals a high-performance drive that delivers very well in the client-centric use cases this SSD is designed for. Corsair Neutron Series XT at AmazonDiscuss this ReviewGA_googleFillSlot("sr...
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Although we are sure many will follow suit in time, the Corsair Neutron XT 240GB SSD sample that we have in our hands for this report, is the first to be seen with the Phison PS3110 controller and should be available some time in the near future.. Having...
When considering all form factors, the 2.5″ notebook SSD comprises the largest segment and should for some time, bar popularity of the M.2 in the next few years. Even then, there will still be a very large number of those holding on to SATA based machine...
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The past year has been a real interesting one for solid state drives. The “big” companies have really taken a real interest in the consumer market and since they are the ones that own the fab houses it is really hard for smaller companies to offer an adva...
Great performance in all tests, 5-year warranty, One of the fastest drives we have tested lately, Great feature set, Works with Corsair SSD toolbox...
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As I mentioned this drive is powered by the newer Phison PS3110 controller matched with Toshiba 19 nm MLC NAND. The drive has great features like the end to end data protection, Smart ECC, Smart Flush and Smart Refresh. You also have the ability to downlo...
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The Corsair Neutron XT series SSDs is the latest storage drive to be released by Corsair. The Corsair Neutron XT 240GB drive is powered by a Phison 3110-S10 controller (aka Phison S10), which was just introduced in August 2014. This is the first time that...
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Corsair's Neutron Series is developing a habit of introducing us to new SSD controllers. The initial members of the family were the first consumer-oriented drives to feature Link_A_Media Devices' LM87800, a good all-around performer that's particularly ad...
We'd normally bust out our famous value scatters to put the Neutron Series XT's performance and pricing into perspective. The drive isn't due to be available until next month, though, and Corsair has yet to set final pricing. Our value analysis will have...
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Back in November of last year, we tested the Corsair Neutron XT , which was the first product to feature the Phison PS3110-S10 controller . First spotted at Flash Memory Summit , the S10 sports the following features:Corsair was Phison's launch partner, b...
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While the 120 GiB SSDs are the most popular models because of their low cost, 240 GiB models are becoming affordable, and thus becoming the preferred ones. Today, we will test the Corsair Neutron XT 240 GiB, targeted to the high-performance market.The Cor...
Before analyzing the results of our test, it is important to keep in mind that the Corsair XT is an SSD targeted to the performance market, and does not compete directly to the Kingston HyperX Fury drive, which is an entry-level product. This can be seen...
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pcper.com Updated: 2015-10-17 05:43:17
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During our coverage of the Flash Memory Summit, we spotted the new Phison PS3110-S10 controller :At that time we only knew that Phison was going to team up with another SSD manufacturer to get these to market. We now know that manufacturer is Corsair, and...
Excellent sequential performance, even at its lowest capacity point, Good random performance at lower queue depths, Good write performance despite reduced die count at the 240GB capacity...
Performance 'flattens out' early at higher queue depths...
PROS:Excellent sequential performance, even at its lowest capacity pointGood random performance at lower queue depthsGood write performance despite reduced die count at the 240GB capacityCONS:Performance 'flattens out' early at higher queue depthsPricing...
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The ugly truth is that the SSD market has been tough for almost all the typical PC component vendors lately. With Samsung, SanDisk, and Micron/Crucial being serious about the client market, it' s not easy for other companies to find a way to provide any s...
One result to point out is the performance consistency. One purpose of the extra CPU cores is to increase performance in steady-state by handling the flash management, but that does not seem to be happening as efficiently as one might hope. If this was a...
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