The Corsair Performance Pro 256GB SSD is an exceptionally fast drive which excels with incompressible data. The customised Marvell 9174 is a very impressive controller, able to deliver high levels of bandwidth with both incompressible and compressible data. It is reassuring to know that it doesn't matter the files you need moved … this controller simply won't compromise.
If you regularly need to transfer movies, photographs and music files, then incompressible data performance can make a difference. This is why the Samsung 830 Series 512GB drive, which we recently reviewed, makes such a great purchase. Some of the enthusiast audience are also concerned with overall Sandforce reliability too, which means that a variety of high performance alternatives are still very much in demand.
The Corsair Performance Pro 256GB is clearly faster than the Samsung 830 Series 512GB in the majority of our test results today, applications such as AS SSD clearly highlight the performance improvements.
The cherry on the cake is certainly the pricing – Scan are selling the drive for £318.30 inc vat, which means this is one of the most inexpensive 256GB solid state drives on the market today.
Pros:
- Balanced all round performance.
- Looks great.
- good bundle.
- Marvell controller has no reliability issues.
Cons:
- Not as fast as Sandforce with compressible sequential data.
Kitguru says: This is without doubt one of the most balanced high performance solid state drives.