Corsair Launches Reactor and Nova Series SSDs

Corsair announced two additions to its family of solid state drives today, in the shape of the Reactor and Nova Series products. The Reactor Series includes drives in capacities of 60GB and 120GB, with both making use of the new JMicron JMF612 controller, which incorporates 128MB of DDR2 cache memory for stutter-free performance. Corsair claims you can expect speeds of up to 250MB/s read and 170MB/s write on the 120GB model, with that write figure dropping to 110MB/s on the 60GB model. The Nova Series is built using the Indilinx Barefoot controller we have seen used in a number of drives from other manufacturers and comes in 128GB and 64GB capacities. You can expect speeds of up to 270MB/s read and 190MB/s write from the 128GB Nova and 270MB/s read and 130MB/s write from the 64GB model.

Both the Reactor and Nova Series drives fully support the Windows 7 TRIM command, which should mean drive performance doesn't degrade over time. They also both come backed with a two year limited warranty. As for pricing on the drives, Newegg currently lists them as follows:

• Reactor 60GB – $184.99
• Reactor 120GB – $349.00
• Nova 64GB – $199.00
• Nova 128GB – $369.00

It seems that the larger drives, with their higher write speeds and slightly lower cost per GB may be the ones to go for if your wallet can stretch that far, though the smaller models would still make for good operating system drives.