Test system and metodology

The test system used to test the Corsair Force GT is based on Intel P67 chipset; the motherboard is an Asus P8P67 Deluxe B3 step, free from the SATA II chip problem detected in step B2. Although the SATA II connection speed is limited to the declared 3 Gbit/s (384MB/s) we have done likewise the tests using that connection, because the SATA III devices are backwards-compatible with the previous standard.

The system used is as follows:

The OS is Windows 7 Ultimate X64, while for the drivers we have taken steps to upgrade Intel Rapid Storage to the latest release, i.e. 10.05, in order to optimize the results obtained in the tests.

Apart from updating drivers, we proceeded to tweak properly the OS through two small steps in order to preserve the unit from future degradation and to optimize performance. Specifically, these tweaks are disabling the defragmentation of the drive by the operating system and disabling indexing of the drive through the Properties menu of the drive.

All tests were performed using a completely blank drive without partitions, and have also been performed several times in random order, so you have an average result very precise.

Once detected the drive in Windows 7, the system recognizes 111GB ​​available.