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Corsair Accelerator 60GB Solid State Drive Review

Patrick "MACMAC" MacMillan

2012-05-18 16:37:48.0


Hardware Canucks have reviewed the budget friendly Corsair Accelerator 60GB Caching SSD, a companion solid state drive which is optimized for caching applications in conjunction with a standard HDD.

Let's see what they had to say:

"Admittedly, consumers who are seriously considering a software-based hybrid storage solution are typically not going to be enthusiasts with cutting-edge computer systems. Rather, they’re are going to be on a tight budget and simply looking for a relatively painless way to boost the responsiveness of their aging systems. From this perspective, the Corsair Accelerator is a decent solution.

By and large, any computer purchased more than a year or two ago does not have SATA 3 ports, so SATA 2 is still the de-facto standard. This makes using a SATA 3-based SSD overkill at best and a waste of resources at worst. Instead of wasting limited resources on an SF-2281 controller, Corsair opted for the less costly—and slower performing—SF-2181 controller."


This seems like another a good addition to Corsair’s existing line of SandForce based drives. Though for about the same you can get an OCZ Synapse which uses a faster SATA 3 SSD with greater over-provisioning.

Click here to read the full review.

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