Corsair Neutron GTX SSD Review (240GB): Link A Media Controller Tested
by Anand Lal Shimpi on August 20, 2012 6:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Storage
- SSDs
- Corsair
- Neutron
- Link a Media
Power Consumption
The Neutron GTX consumes a fair bit of power when idle, which is disappointing. At 1.16W doing nothing, the Neutron GTX can have a tangible impact on battery life. Load power consumption is much more competitive. It's not what I would consider low, but it's not unreasonably high either.
The ONFi based Neutron is noticeably more power hungry under load unfortunately. In both of our write tests the regular Neutron gets very close to 5W of power draw. If you're going to use one of these drives in a notebook, make it the Neutron GTX.
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wsjudd - Monday, August 20, 2012 - link
Looks like there's a stray bit of punctuation in here:"The drive is the Neutron, and the controller maker? Link A Media Devices"
AnotherGuy - Monday, August 20, 2012 - link
Really after so much information in the article... thats what you have to say... the Punctuation?I am afraid people wanna see some relevant thoughts and opinions about the info on the article not ur stupid comments on punctuation. These articles are about technology not your English 101 u take at school.
Really tired of the same comments on almost every article.
gmallen - Monday, August 20, 2012 - link
They certainly don't want to see inane, off-topic troll-bait like your comment. If you're so distressed by these comments, don't read them or comment about them. Get a life instead.AnotherGuy - Monday, August 20, 2012 - link
when he or others who post same comments see my insane comment, they might realize that they are actually annoying and stop doing it.Mr. Pedantic - Monday, August 20, 2012 - link
We can only hope you will recognise the same thing and stop posting useless rubbish.seapeople - Monday, August 20, 2012 - link
Not to feed the trolls, but I agree with this troll somewhat. The proposed punctuation correction wasn't even necessarily correct.Rishi100 - Monday, August 20, 2012 - link
Let it be so.... attractive, that I jump on my second SSD.Bmadd89 - Monday, August 20, 2012 - link
On page 1 you comment saying the DRAM in the Neutron is 256MB but in the graph its 128MBXZerg - Monday, August 20, 2012 - link
I would really suggest that you keep the contenders consistent across all the benches/tests. It just feels wrong to see Product X in few benches and then missing in other, point in case OCZ products missing in the power consumption. I am sure that you have their numbers but for some reason those are skipped.mayankleoboy1 - Monday, August 20, 2012 - link
with many controllers tying at ~ 500MBPS, are we reaching the theoretical speeds of NAND flash? Meaning controllers can get better, but speeds wont increase much?What are the theoretical speeds of NAND flash?