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We first got our hands on a SandForce-based drive when Corsair was nice enough to send us their F100 solid state drive . We were very excited and anxious to see the performance boost from the traditional Indilinx Barefoot drives we had been reviewing for the past year. Recently we have seen many extended capacity drives, meaning there is less over-provisioning in order for a larger capacity drive

At CES every solid state drive manufacturer we met with was raving about the SandForce controller, the new controller that is going to bring blazing speeds to solid state drives and bring current solid state drives in the budget category with these new drives being in the enthusiast category.  The controller from SandForce is the SF-1200 which is a small step down from the enterprise SF-1500 controller.  Corsair has designed a new line of solid state drives around this controller called the Force Series, which is available in 100GB and 200GB versions.  Today we will be looking at the 100GB version which boasts very impressive very impressive read and write speeds at 285MB/s and 275MB/s respectively.  Let’s check it out! Special thanks to Corsair for providing us with the Force Series F100 100GB Solid State Drive to review.