Corsair P64 Performance Series 64GB SSD (CMFSSD-64GBG2D)
Aug 9th, 2009 | By SimonEvery piece of hardware I’ve received from Corsair or every product I’ve purchased from them has always come in a very basic package. The Corsair P64 is no different. There is no fancy box with pictures or specifications printed on. What we have is a plain white box with a sticker indicating the model number, batch number and assembly location. The ends of the box are sealed with Corsair tape for integrity purposes.
Inside the box, the P64 is enclosed in a clamshell package. Also stuffed inside the package is a note from Corsair on “Performance Recovery”. The package doesn’t contain any information about how fast the P64 can perform, how to install/format or what the warranty period is. All of that information has to be found online.
As a standard 2.5″ hard drive, once you’ve seen one you have seen them all. The chassis of the drive is brushed aluminum with all information conveyed to the owner by means of stickers. The label says removal of the cover will void warranty; however, unless you strip the screws, it’ll be hard for Corsair to know you opened the drive up.
Unlike the Indilinx Barefoot based drives, there is no jumper for firmware updates. All updates would need to be done by a utility of some sort.
With no warranty label to tamper, there’s absolutely no reason why I wouldn’t open up this drive! A mere four screws later and the printed circuit board is free. The PCB is capable of holding 16 Samsung MLC NAND flash modules and the P64 has 8 in use, six on the top and 2 on the backside.
The Samsung ARM Controller (S3C29RBB01-YK40 N1R29MMF manufactured 0915) and 128MB flash memory (K4X1G323PD-8Gc6 GMC312A2 manufactured 919) are the brains of this drive. The storage itself is provided by Samsung K9HCGZ8U5M SCK0 manufactured 919.
I’m buying just this Corsair 64GB model. I hope that makes all the difference, because an investment is high for such a low capacity. The gap needs to actually exist in the speed of all applications on the disk.
Had the option of another series SSD Corsair, but as this has 128MB Cache ended up choosing this model. Others have only 64MB Cache, however, have read up to 270mb / s and recording of up to 130MB / S while the P64 model offers up to 220MB of read / write S and up to 120MB / S.
I hope I have made the right choice at the time to prioritize the most CACHE 128MB, not just the reading speed.
I intend to use it on my ThinkPad Lenovo Y430 Laptop (T9300 C2D 2.50ghz / 6mb L2 / FSB 800 – 4 GB DDR2 800 Memory) so far with a 250GB SATA 5400RPM HD.
I made a good investment in the choice of SSD HD CORSAIR P64??