Corsair P3 SSD’s in RAID Hit 886MB/s Read and 431MB/s Write Speeds
We had a chance to stop by the Corsair booth on the show floor of CES 2011 and had the opportunity to test drive a pair of their upcoming P3 series of SSD’s in RAID 0. These drives feature a Marvell 9174 SATA 6G controller that has customized firmware and is said to be very fast.
Not only are these drives said to be very fast, but they also have support for TRIM and very aggressive garbage collection. Corsair let us run ATTO on a pair of these drives to see what kind of performance we could expect out of a RAID 0 array.
As you can see from the image above we were able to hit 886MB/s read and 431MB/s write in ATTO with a pair of Corsair P3-256GB SSDs in RAID 0. These are very impressive performance features and it looks like the Micron C400 will have some competition. What is interesting is that we are assuming that both drives will use the same Marvell controller, but differ by the firmware and the MLC NAND Flash used. A single drive is said to achieve maximum read speeds of up to 480 MB/sec and write speeds of up to 320 MB/sec. Performance 3 Series SSDs are expected to be available in late January 2011.
Building on the growing success of its award-winning solid-state drive products, including the Force Series and Nova Series SSDs, the new Performance Series 3 offers significantly increased read and write performance, as well as full support for the TRIM command and background garbage collection. Paired with a motherboard that includes native SATA 6Gbps support, such as those based on the Intel P67 and H67 chipsets for Intel SandyBridge CPUs, Corsair Performance Series 3 SSDs are able to achieve maximum read speeds of up to 480 MB/sec and write speeds of up to 320 MB/sec ensuring a huge boost in system responsiveness, compared to conventional hard disk drives.
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