Visiontek GoDrive 60GB and Racer Series 120GB SSD Review

We love the Visiontek packaging. It is significantly more attractive than the usual tiny box that many Solid State Drives are shipped inside. Visiontek offer a 3 year warranty with this product.

The inner box slides out and opens up in a lovely gatefold presentation. The bundle however for the 60GB drive is weak. Visiontek only supply the drive inside an anti static bag, there are no accessories.

The Go Drive is shipped in a standard chassis with a sticker on the front highlighting the name and capacity. The rear has a sticker detailing the part number. The drive is measured at 93mm (D) x 69mm (W) x 101mm (H).

One side of the PCB is populated by the Sandforce 2281 controller, marked ‘SF-2281VB1-SDC'. The other side of the PCB contains the Micron asynchronous NAND flash memory – marked '29F64G08CBAAA'.

Visiontek claim that this 60GB ‘GoDrive' branded solid state drive can achieve speeds up to 550MB/s read and 500 MB/s write. The larger 120GB and 240GB drives have slightly better write performance, rated at 520 MB/s. Sandforce controllers use real time compression. The controllers store a ‘representation’ of the data, not the actual data itself which is achieved by creating a partition of the available NAND flash memory.

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