Corsair Force 3 Discussion

[Lloyd_mcse]

Corsair Force 3 Series SSD's - Corsair

Corsair Force 3 Series SSD - 120 GB - SATA-600

Corsair Force 3 Series SSD - 240 GB - SATA-600

I thought I would start a thread for these drives, since we are stocking them.
Mine has been great so far, I had a strange problem with "iastor stopped resonding" but uninstalling Intel Rapid Storage Tech fixed that.

[Lloyd_mcse]

I'm waiting for an expected date on the 60GB version, along with the Nova 2.
I will add them to the shop when we get a confirmed date.

[Lloyd_mcse]

Well, the Nova 2's are in stock. But still waiting for the 60GB Force 3's.

[Lloyd_mcse]

We have the 60 GB Corsair Force 3 in stock now

[Lloyd_mcse]

Corsair Force 3 120GB Now in stock too. There's only one at the moment, but we will have 40 available from 02/08/2011 according to our suppliers.

[Lloyd_mcse]

At last a review of the Force 3 120GB

The SSD Review - Corsair Force Series 3 120 GB SSD SATA 3 Review

[Lloyd_mcse]

I've been running mine 120GB and 240GB for about 9 months now, they have been flawless!
The upgrade to 1.3.3 firmware has given extra speed at smaller file size which is great.
Something I hadn't noticed is that write caching had been switched back on, I'm not sure when this happened, it may have been after a BIOS update or mre likely after updating the firmware. So make sure you check it is still off after your next BIOS update and/or Firmware update.

[Lloyd_mcse]

Well I don't think it was the Corsair Force 3 Firmware update as the 240GB was still set with write caching off.
Strange!

[Lloyd_mcse]

The latest firmware was released yesterday 5.02,

Corsair Force 3 - Firmware 5.02

I have flashed my 120GB one so far, I will do the 240GB later on.

[Lloyd_mcse]

I updated the 240GB Corsair Force 3 to v5.02 the other day and noticed that write caching had been turned on again.
Strange that it didn't the last time I flashed it.
Anyway, just double check write caching is off after you flash, and have restarted.