Corsair P3-128 128GB SATA3 6Gb/s Performance SSD Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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now this is something that the market needs more of and I don't necessarily
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mean Corsair ssds or ssds in general or
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whatever it is that you may think I mean what I mean is SATA
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36 gbit per second SSD so this guy right
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here is a 128 gig SSD from Corsair so
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they are now the second manufacturer to Market with a SATA 3 6 gbit pers second
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SSD and I'm going to tell you why exactly as part of my
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unboxing this SSD needs a SATA 36 GB per
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second interface oh I'm unboxing off camera
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there you go you know it's a x-rated
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unboxing when I can't this is too too hot for TV for YouTube this unboxing no
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sorry you guys can't see it I'm just going to I'm going to look at this myself oh it's pretty silver yeah it's
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got a silver casing on it it comes with a stick no kid just kidding I'll show
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you guys okay so first thing it comes with is a 2 and 1/2 in to 3 and 1/2 in
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adapter lots of modern cases these days are actually coming with Native support
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for ssds or any 2 and 1/2 in drive so you might not have to use this but if
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you do hey it's included so great and
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here is the p328 this is their performance 3 series
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one of my first SSD videos on my NC com
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channel was actually about their original p128 so we've come a fair ways since
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then this is also a 128 gig but in terms
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of performance it absolutely blows the doors off their older dri so here you
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can see we've got our standard 2 and 1/2 in mounting holes on the sides as well
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as the bottoms of this drive okay here's a little warranty void if remove sticker
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now this interface is going to look pretty familiar this is a SATA interface
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so your power is still the same old thing that has been since SATA 1 this
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guy right here SATA 3 6 GB per second is
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physically identical to what we've seen in the past the only difference is how
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much thorough put it's capable of so 6 gabit per second is I mean doing the
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rough math is about 600 megabytes per second so that means that it is about
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double the speed of SATA 2 3 gbit per second which Peaks out at around oh what
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is it it's around 300 megabytes per second I think it's a little less like about 280 so the SATA GBS probably
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around 560 Megs so this particular Drive
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doesn't Max it out but if you check out the specs so I'm on the NCI website here
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on my uh MSI laptop so here we go maximum
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sequential read speeds are 410 megabytes per second and
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maximum sequential rights are 210 megab per second so it uses a Marvel
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controller mlc flash it has trim support
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as well as robust background garbage collection
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and let's see what else they've got to say for themselves threeyear warranty on
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this guy wow the NCIX site is great it tells me all the stuff that I could tell
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you except in Note Form rather than
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watching a long YouTube video that's pretty useful um so one of the questions
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that inevitably people will have about a drive like this is can I use it on my
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SATA 2 Port the answer is yes it will
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have slightly lower performance but you can use it on your SATA 2 compatible
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motherboard until you upgrade to one with SATA 3 6 GB per second so don't
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forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips and thank you for checking out my unboxing
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of the cor performance 3 Series 128 gig
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SSD