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 Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 8:00 am Post subject: Corsair Neutron GTX SSD Review (240GB): Link A Media Contro |
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<p> Not interested in diving headfirst into a market full of teething pains, Corsair held off on its first SSD introduction. Even after it entered the market, Corsair remained conservative when it came to adopting new controllers. Corsair shipped Samsung when it wasn't attractive and was late to the party with both Indilinx and SandForce. Only its forays into the Marvell world were somewhat unique, but mostly because companies without firmware teams tended to stay away from Marvell.</p> <p> Being conservative kept Corsair out of trouble for the most part (the SandForce issues unfortunately impacted everyone), but it also did nothing to establish the company as a serious player in the SSD space. Realizing there's no chance of winning if you play it too safe, Corsair announced a new SSD based on a never before seen controller at Computex earlier this summer.</p> <p align="center">  </p> <p> The drive is the Neutron, and the controller maker? Link A Media Devices, aka LAMD (Corsair is a bit better at marketing). At the time, Link A Media wasn't very well known in the enthusiast community although the acquisition announcement from SK Hynix a few weeks later helped to change that.</p> <p> We've been down this road before. A new controller shows up, some company takes a risk and builds drives around it. The difference this time is Corsair is the company taking the risk. Read on for our review of Corsair's first LAMD based drives: the Neutron and Neutron GTX.</p> <div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'> </td><td valign='middle'> </td></tr></table></div><br/><br/> 
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