Corsair's Latest Force GT SSD Is Red and Speedy

It appears that Corsair is not slacking off at all when it comes to new product releases, and it looks like it has even started to break out of the regular color schemes one usually expects its storage devices, in this case solid state drives, to adopt.

Corsair has been called, by some, the best maker of PSUs and memory products, and it really looks like its SSD business isn't doing badly either.

In fact, its Force series of solid state drives was present at this year's CeBIT trade show in Hannover, Germany, although it looks like at least some of the models abandoned the black enclosure some may have grown used to.

Of course, given the performance they bring along, one might say that the flaming color red actually suits the newest member of the Force GT series.

The folks over at Hardware.no were able to get close enough to it, while at CeBIT, to snap a few pictures and get the basic rundown of what it can do.

Apparently, like so many other solid state drives revealed over the past couple of weeks, it is powered by the new controller chips designed by SandForce.

SandForce has been getting even more well-known on the Flash storage market because it created a line of processors that allow SSDs to operate on the SATA 6.0 Gbps interface.

SSDs were already very fast even on the SATA 3.0 Gbps, many high-end ones reading and writing at 285 MB/s and 275 MB/s, respectively.

The new GeForce GT uses a SF-2000 chip to reach 520 MB/s and 500 MB/s, respectively, which is almost twice the above-mentioned performance.

To make it stand out from its peers, the company gave the new drive the aforementioned red enclosure and a storage capacity of 240 GB. Unfortunately, nothing was said on pricing or availability.