Crucial & Corsair....Differences?

[Old Hippie]

I'm a little more confused than usual.

I always thought the Crucial C300 & 400 series and Corsair Performance 3 series were going to be the same drives.

Are they?

The Corsair's have been released but not the Crucial C400's.

Anybody in the "know" about this situation?

 

[john4200]

I'm a little more confused than usual.

I always thought the Crucial C300 & 400 series and Corsair Performance 3 series were going to be the same drives.

Are they?

The Corsair's have been released but not the Crucial C400's.

Anybody in the "know" about this situation?

I'm not sure what you mean by "C300 & C400" being the same drive. They are obviously different!

As for the C400 and Corsair Performance 3, I don't think they are the same. The Corsair specs actually look similar to those of the P300 (Micron's Enterprise SSD), which I attribute to them both using the same Marvell controller (but different from the Marvell controller in the C300 and C400). And I think Micron customizes the firmware. I have no idea what Corsair does (for all I know, Corsair could be rebranding the Micron P300).

Look at the P300 sequential benchmarks of 478 MB/s read, 318 MB/s write:

http://www.micronblogs.com/2010/08/setting-a-new-benchmark-for-enterprise-ssds/#more-1048

The Corsair P3 specs 480 / 320 for their 256GB model. It is also interesting that P3 and P300 are similar model designations. One difference is that Micron talked about SLC flash with the P300, while Corsair mentions that the P3 uses MLC.

 

[Old Hippie]

I'm not sure what you mean by "C300 & C400" being the same drive. They are obviously different!

You are correct. I forgot to edit that before posting.

Look at the P300 sequential benchmarks of 478 MB/s read, 318 MB/s write:
http://www.micronblogs.com/2010/08/s...sds/#more-1048

Thanks for the link. I'd rather see some ASSsd comparisions but I'll take what I can get.

I appreciate your comments!