Product Details
- Size: 480 GB
- Color: Black
- Brand: Corsair
- Model: CSSD-F480GB3-BK
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.00" h x
5.00" w x
7.00" l,
.18 pounds
- Hard Disk: 480GB
Features
- High performance SandForce SF-2200 SSD controller
- Sequential read speeds of up to 540 MB/s
- Sequential write speeds of up to 425 MB/s
- Works seamlessly with SATA 6Gb/s SATA III systems
- Backward compatible-Works with SATA 3Gb/s SATA II systems
- BGC (Background Garbage Collection)
- Included 2.5" to 3.5" bracket for installation on your desktop computer
- Three Year Warranty
Product Description
Step up to the SSD capacity you really need with a Corsair Force Series 3 480GB SATA 6Gb/s solid-state drive. Your system responds better, boots quicker, and loads applications faster. Ideal for notebooks, Corsair SSDs run cooler and quieter than traditional hard drives, using less power.
Customer Reviews
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154 of 164 people found the following review helpful.
By Bexter
Firstly, I want to start by saying that I KNOW what I'm doing with technology as I've worked with it for well over 20 years now, so what I'm about to post doesn't need trolling from 16 year olds who think they know better. Secondly, this review is mostly for those who either haven't worked with SSD's before or are having trouble getting this drive to play nice on their SATA controllers.The thing to understand about SSD's is that while they are VERY fast, they are also still in their infant stages. With this drive in particular, this is what you need to do to make sure that it performs the way it should.1. Make sure that the cable you use to connect to your motherboard is at LEAST a SATA-2 cable. A vanila motherboard SATA cable is more than likely going to be SATA-1 and this drive will complain about it with failures and whatnot.2. Make sure your motherboard has the SATA port you connect this drive to configured as AHCI in the BIOS and NOT RAID or Sata. The primary reason for this is that most motherboard built in controllers are not really well built to start with and were NOT built with SSD in mind.3. On some boards (Gigabyte, MSI & a few others), you can NOT use RAID and SATA combos on the same controller with this drive. As an example, the GPA880FX-UD3H board sports two different controllers... 6xSATA-3 and 2xSATA-2. You have the option (BIOS updates) to set the 6 way controller to do a mix of RAID and AHCI. This is great for conventional HD's but the Corsair WILL pitch an absolute fit about it. The easy solution for this is to put the SSD on the 2nd controller by itself in AHCI mode while your RAID array sits on the first controller.4. Some FACTS about marketing with SSD's. This drive, like many others is listed as a SATA-3 drive. Sounds impressive and fast, but the sad reality is that NO SSD ON THE MARKET CAN GO 6GB's PER SECOND. It will probably be a little while before the real need for SATA-3 is even realized. So basically, if you have a SATA-2 board, you'll be just fine. I have one myself so I can tell you that it's still super fast on SATA-2 and there would is no real improvement on a SATA-3 system, which I also have.5. If you get an SSD, do NOT go crazy trying to put all of your applications, music, videos, games, etc on this drive. Make this your OS drive and leave it at that plus a few applications (MS Office, WinAMP, etc.) There is an actual reason for this. As SSD's get full with data, they try to spread the date out in a, for laymens sake, shower pattern on the drive itself. Conventional hard drives try to go in a straight line, as much as possible. Without being TOO technical, this is one of the reasons SSD's are much better for short term storage rather than long term archival. The problem comes in when the SSD is near capacity, it'll start to slow down since it has to recall these data block from different places in the storage chips. The general rule is to only use up to around 80-85% of the USEABLE space on the drive. This gives the drive the room it needs to clean itself up and keep your data fetch times very low (5ms or around there).6. If you're going to use this drive for a Windows 7 machine that already has a partition in place, after you've gotten everything moved and working, MAKE SURE TO RUN THE SYSTEM PERFORMANCE TEST WITH WINDOWS AGAIN. This will tell Win7 that it's now using an SSD drive and turn on appropriate services such as TRIM (you WANT this) and turn off others like caching (you don't really need this with an SSD). You will probably also want to turn off the hibernate feature of your computer once you're using this drive as an OS drive. The truth is this drive (once configured correctly) is nearly as fast in startup/shutdown as conventional hibernate and in rare cases, it's actually faster.This is probably the best starter advice I can give to anyone looking to plunge into the SSD pool. If this has helped anyone, I'm glad.
58 of 61 people found the following review helpful.
By Canis Majoris
This is a duplicate of my review that was posted on the older F120GB3-BK model. My original review was of the newer F120GB3A-BK--this model--, and is more appropriately included here but; I will leave the other one up because it still applies.We have all read the reviews. If you want an SSD you have these choices:1. If you want reliability at a premium price get either Intel or Crucial.2. If you want to take more of a risk for a lower price and maybe higher speeds go with Corsair or OCZ.3. Sandforce controllers should make the drive perform faster, but have issues and should be avoided until the bugs can be fixed, right?Because of a very good price on the 120GB Corsair Force 3, I finally bought an SSD to install in my Dell laptop. I knew I wanted to eventually get an SSD for the sole reason of seeing the greatest performance increase you can do, basically, if you had to upgrade one thing. I knew nothing of what to optimize, what to tweak, or how to specially install an SSD other than putting it in, and loading Windows like I normally do to a new drive. Fortunately, this was all the information I needed to see the improvements that everyone else has seen when going with an SSD.**I used this SSD on a Sata III port in my laptop**Note that I am using firmware 1.3.2, and did not upgrade to 1.3.3. Corsair stated that, unless you had problems with the 1.3.2, there was no reason to upgrade to 1.3.3.**When you are buying this SSD, make sure you note the -model- number** In this case my model # was CSSD-F120GB3A-BK. The *A* is important, because that means the SSD is preloaded with 1.3.2 firmware and is likely the newly 'revisioned' drive. Look for this on the box when you receive it. If you do not have an A at the end, upgrade to 1.3.2, or 1.3.3, as soon as you can to minimize anything going wrong.I wanted to use this drive as a primary boot drive (the drive that loads and boots into Windows). After installing the drive in my laptop, I switched the SATA controller (as your computer is starting up you have to press an F key--which usually shows on the screen--to get into the BIOS) to AHCI, and booted to a USB Flash Drive (I had a Windows 7 .iso, or CD, on a 4gb flash drive though you could alternatively use a Windows install DVD/CD). **The reason for having Windows on a thumb drive is because of the quickness of using Flash to install on Flash (your SSD)** The complete Windows installation took about 15 minutes whereas it usually took around 45 minutes on a normal harddrive. This is your first taste of how your computer has increased its performance. During the installation I had 0 problems.Doing a fresh install of Windows on your new SSD is the same process as if you formatted a harddrive and started from scratch to restore from system discs. Make sure, though, if you have the option, to enable AHCI mode under SATA Controllers in your BIOS before using the SSD.After Windows had been opened for the first time, I installed the drivers for my system and was finally able to restart after each program 'install' and not worry about losing a lot of time. You know everytime you install a driver it asks to 'reboot now'? Well, with an SSD you will not have to say to yourself, "But do I really want to waste a minute or two letting Windows shut it self down and restart all over again"?[---Bootup Times---]Complete shutdown to bootup time was 30 seconds.Startup time after immediately pressing power button is around 23 seconds.Shutdown time is 4-5 seconds.After installing drivers I ran Windows Experience Index. This drive scored a 7.9--the maximum score available--under 'Primary Hard Disk'. I have heard that you should run the WEI with an SSD as soon as you can because it is at this time Windows recognizes your SSD as an SSD. Why is this important? Because Windows 7 will then disable Defrag, Readyboot and other non-constituent performance tweaks. It will also enable the much needed TRIM. Also I would search online for further tweaks that you can use to improve your SSD performance even more.Now because I wanted hard data on what speeds I was getting from the Force 3, I installed ATTO and PerformanceMark. Here are the numbers:[---Actual Performance Numbers--]*PerformanceMark takes a composite score that rates a drive based on its Sequential Read/Write/Random Seek speeds.*Performance Mark Disk Mark was around 3550.To put this number into perspective: the highest average Disk Mark number on PerformanceMark's website is 3512. Going by their website, my Corsair Force 3 Disk Mark score is as good as it gets right now.[---PerformanceMark numbers for competitors---]:Intel 510 Series 120 GB SATA Version 3 2.5-Inch Solid-State Drive is 2,263Crucial 128 GB m4 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive SATA 6Gb/s CT128M4SSD2 is 2,063ATTO Scores were close to what is advertised under the specifications listings. Read was close to 550mbps max and Write was close to 500mbps.I will add too that I usually put my laptop into sleep mode about 20-25 times a day. Having this drive for a little bit now, I can safely say that there have also been 0 problems when coming out of sleep. This review will be updated if anything changes.One thing I have noticed too after upgrading to the SSD is that my laptop fan never comes on when I am just using the web checking e-mails, or streaming videos. If I close my eyes, I cannot hear anything that would let me know my laptop is on. Did I mention too, that this also transfers to the heat at the bottom, most likely on your lap. It does not even feel warm to the touch anymore. Probably just lukewarm.Want another reason to take a risk with Corsair? Their excellent customer service and warranty program. If you did happen to get a bad one, you would be covered--for 3 years as per their warranty. The latter is one of the reasons I took a risk with Corsair even with unfavorable reviews. Because my drive is reliable, and it produces outstanding performance numbers, the little risk that may have been involved has since turned into a huge reward.[---My Recommendation---]Because I found the Force 3 at such a low price, I did not consider the Force 3 GT however; the price of the Force GT, as of right now, is close enough to the Force 3 that the extra dollars (in this case around 30$ more) is worth it to buy the Corsair Force Series GT 120 GB SATA 2.5-Inch SATA III Solid State Drive (CSSD-F120GBGT-BK). The latter will come close to doubling the performance gains of the Force 3 in *real world* usage. The stated specifications will seem to be the same, but the performances you see will be better with the Force GT. If you have never had an SSD and the price gap between the Force 3 and Force GT is greater than 50$, go with the Force 3. If the gap is less and/or you want the absolute best performance an SSD can give you right now, buy the Force GT.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
By MC0311
I have 3 of these drives set up in a software raid on my Asus Crosshair IV. Running ATTO Disk benchmark on Windows 7, I am getting 1020MB/s Read and 1100MB/s Write speeds. I never have any crashes and I have had this set-up for a couple of months now with no issues or BSODs. Needless to say, I can fully recommend this drive!
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