[Charles P. Jefferies]

Corsair has announced two new SSD series along with a 512GB SSD. The drives have a 2.5-inch form factor, SATA II interface, and should be shipping soon.

http://www.storagere...s_512gb_version

[Brian]

That's a pretty strong lineup. I haven't tested any Corsair SSDs yet, but we hope to get their new line in for review.

[Charles P. Jefferies]

I use Corsair memory and power supplies almost exclusively and have come to expect a lot from the company. I anticipate these SSDs will be no exception. Both of them are blazing fast but especially the Nova 128GB. 195MB/s write? Yeow!

[Patrick Roberts]

I may end up picking up a nova 64GB, unless there is an amazingly better deal on newegg when I get around to buying one.

That is, if I don't put off buying one for another month. Again.

[Spod]

Check your numbers - some of the read and write speeds seem to have been exchanged:
"The 60GB version has maximum read/write speeds of 250/110MB/s and the 120GB version ups the read speed to 170MB/s." Surely that last "read" should be "write"?
And for the 512 GB drive:
"The company claims read and write speeds of 200MB/s and 240MB/s, respectively." - shouldn't read be faster than write?

Either way, I'm glad we're seeing SSD manufacturers use the 3.5" form factor to deliver higher capacities - though I would have thought it should be possible to fit more than twice the storage in a volume that's over 5 times that of a 9.5 mm high 2.5" SSD? Hexus says this is basically two 256 GB SSDs hidden in a 3.5" chassis, but is anyone planning to make a true 3.5" SSD? It should be easy to fit 1 TB + into that form factor, maybe even matching the 2 TB capacity of today's largest 3.5" hard disk drives. Of course the cost would be dizzying, but it would be nice to see capacity no longer an issue with SSDs, with cost the only barrier.