Corsair Neutron SATA III SSD Review

Name: Corsair Neutron SATA III SSD
Brand: Corsair

by Marco Chiappetta — Friday, January 18, 2013, 12:00 PM EDT

Next we ran SiSoft SANDRA, the the System ANalyzer, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant. Here, we used the Physical Disk test suite and provided the results from our comparison SSDs. The benchmarks were run without formatting and read and write performance metrics are detailed below.

SiSoft SANDRA 2012

Synthetic HDD Benchmarking

All of the drives we tested were tightly grouped in the SiSoft SANDRA Physical Disk benchmark, save for the Vertex 4 which trailed significantly. The Corsair Neutron offered up some strong read bandwidth here, but trailed the SandForce-based drives by quite a bit in write performance.

Tags: SSD, Corsair, Flash, Storage, NAND, SATA, Neutron

Marco Chiappetta

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