Corsair has announced plans for the upcoming transition from 34 nanometers to 25 nanometers in flash chips used in its solid state drives (SSD). "There is much confusion in the market about the impact of this transition from 34nm to 25nm, both in terms of price and performance on," said John Beekley, VP of Technical Marketing at Corsair.
"We have been working diligently on this with SandForce to ensure that the transition process as smooth as possible, and today we are working on the details." Flash memory manufacturers are changing their manufacturing process to 25nm, allowing them to increase capacity and reduce costs.
This means that SSD vendors sell cheaper and this will result in savings to the consumer. The other side of this process is that the manufacture of the SSD using 25nm flash chips may require more overprovision (a technique used to ensure reliability), which could reduce the ability of the SSD, and also a reduction their performance.
"The Corsair and SandForce engineers have been working closely with key suppliers to verify the profile and requirements of the 25nm parts," continued Beekley, "and we've been doing work our Force units with numerous performance and reliability tests. We are pleased that the process has been satisfactory, so the 25nm Series Force units are ready for distribution.
" Corsair In laboratories using synthetic benchmarks ATTO, only detected a small decrease in performance (a mere 3-4%) in the Series Force units with 25nm chips. Evidence of real life groups such as copying files or time boot Windows are the same as the ATTO tests and have shown very little or no loss of performance.
However, the mean overprovision discussed before in some cases reducing the disk capacity. The Force series of 115Gb and 80Gb with 25nm chips will be available in late February in the international network of distributors Corsair. The F115 has a MSRP of $ 215, and the F80-A has an MSRP of $ 169 in the United States.
For comparison, the current F120 has a MSRP of $ 249 and $ 199 F80. 
"We have been working diligently on this with SandForce to ensure that the transition process as smooth as possible, and today we are working on the details." Flash memory manufacturers are changing their manufacturing process to 25nm, allowing them to increase capacity and reduce costs.
This means that SSD vendors sell cheaper and this will result in savings to the consumer. The other side of this process is that the manufacture of the SSD using 25nm flash chips may require more overprovision (a technique used to ensure reliability), which could reduce the ability of the SSD, and also a reduction their performance.
"The Corsair and SandForce engineers have been working closely with key suppliers to verify the profile and requirements of the 25nm parts," continued Beekley, "and we've been doing work our Force units with numerous performance and reliability tests. We are pleased that the process has been satisfactory, so the 25nm Series Force units are ready for distribution.
" Corsair In laboratories using synthetic benchmarks ATTO, only detected a small decrease in performance (a mere 3-4%) in the Series Force units with 25nm chips. Evidence of real life groups such as copying files or time boot Windows are the same as the ATTO tests and have shown very little or no loss of performance.
However, the mean overprovision discussed before in some cases reducing the disk capacity. The Force series of 115Gb and 80Gb with 25nm chips will be available in late February in the international network of distributors Corsair. The F115 has a MSRP of $ 215, and the F80-A has an MSRP of $ 169 in the United States.
For comparison, the current F120 has a MSRP of $ 249 and $ 199 F80.
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