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Corsair Force 3 240GB SATA 3 6.0GB/s SSD US $249.99 + US $7 Shipping

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johnno1987 on 12/04/2012 - 16:27 amazon.com (834 clicks)
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Works out to be roughly $1.07/GB including shipping. 6Gb/s too

Size: 240 GB
SATA 6Gb/s (SATA 3) connectivity- Works seamlessly with SATA 3 systems
Backward compatible-Works with SATA 3Gb/s (SATA 2) systems
Sequential read speeds of up to 550 MB/s
Sequential write speeds of up to 520 MB/s
High performance SandForce SF-2200 SSD controller
BGC (Background Garbage Collection)
Native TRIM support (O/S support required)
RAID Support

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  • goatus on 12/04/2012 - 16:52
    +5

    weird how they will ship the 240gb to Australia, but none of the other sizes.

    • 2true2btrue on 12/04/2012 - 17:05
      -5

      It's not weird at all, Amazon has only a few warehouses/centers that ship internationally compared to the total number of Amazon's warehouses, and upon availability of certain items/models in these centers they can offer to ship them outside the US.

      • dzhay on 12/04/2012 - 17:13
        +23

        It's weird. End of.

    • Alzori on 12/04/2012 - 23:51
      +2

      Weird also how it's the exact same scenario for the M4's atm - 256Gb will ship, everything else won't.

  • wildwild on 12/04/2012 - 17:18
    +2

    Hi, can anyone tell me how to buy anything from Amazon as they don't ship stuff to Australian addresses?

    Help help help.

    • 51ngh on 12/04/2012 - 17:21
      +1

      Use a mail forwarding company such as shipito.com or priceusa.com

    • seb on 12/04/2012 - 17:29

      If you're default address is a PO Box then it will say it can't ship to your address.

    • Sage on 12/04/2012 - 17:55
      +1

      I've found that some things will post to Australia and others won't.
      I usually have to add to cart and try check out, after you select your address it'll let you know if you can be sent it or not.

      • Telios on 13/04/2012 - 13:23

        You can almost guarantee that is something isn't from the actual amazon store (it should say amazon as the seller) then you will not be able to ship it internationally.

        This greatly frustrated me when I was trying to buy kitchen knives previously, got the knives but the sharpener (not from amazon itself) would not ship to Australia.

        :(

        • Cheap Rich Guy on 13/04/2012 - 14:00
          +1

          So much for our free trade agreement with the US.

  • crudman on 12/04/2012 - 19:11
    +3

    Assume above price is correct this equates to AU$248 shipped at spot rate.

    AU$320 + shipping ($20? courrier) from eyo (not the cheapest place)

    http://www.eyo.com.au/276239_corsair-force-series-3-240-ssd-…

    Total Saving of roughly $88 as opposed to "You Save: $270.00 (52%)"

    A good deal still but don't rush to buy thinking you're getting $270 off

  • JetBombat on 12/04/2012 - 19:31

    Warranty?

  • [Deactivated] on 12/04/2012 - 21:42
    +4

    Bought one of these 2 weeks ago at $279, arrived in 7 days (I'm in Syd metro), item was badly damaged, had a chat with the amazon rep, they offered replacement and full refund on return shipping. Also they 'price matched' the replacement as it has gone down to $265 by giving another $14 refund.

    The 2nd SSD arrived 2 days ago in perfect condition, took 1.5 weeks due to Easter break. Wrote this comments from the newly installed win7 on this SSD. So far so good.

    The packaging itself ain't that great, the damaged one was in a thin cardboard box the same they're using for blu-rays or books, the 2nd one in slightly thicker cardboard box.

  • [Deactivated] on 12/04/2012 - 21:55
    +1

    isnt this controller the troublesome one ? sf-2200 ?

    • bender on 13/04/2012 - 08:31
      +1

      That's what I was wondering.

  • onlyletters on 12/04/2012 - 21:59

    Tempting

  • zork1970 on 12/04/2012 - 22:18
    +4

    I've purchase the Corsair F115 1 year ago and had it replace 3 times with controller issues in 9 months before I wrote it off. It only seems cheap until you have to rebuild your OS 3 times and loose a couple of days worth of data and then go out and buy another drive.

    Defect rates for SSDs:

    • Intel 0.1%
    • Crucial 0.8%
    • Corsair 2.9%
    • OCZ 4.2%

    source:
    http://www.behardware.com/articles/843-7/components-returns-…

    I've had an intel for 3 months and so far no issues.

    • Cheap Rich Guy on 13/04/2012 - 14:04

      Much of that OCZ % failure rate was before Sandforce got their controller sorted and manufacturer firmwares were updated. Will be interesting to see how OCZ goes with their new Indilinx controllers. Reviews of the OCZ Vertex 4 have been very positive so far.

  • jonafern on 12/04/2012 - 23:09

    newbie question: my motherboard is 'SATA 6.0 Gb/s', does that mean it is Sata III and should run this SSD without any issues? How long is the warranty on this product from amazon? Thanks

    • jonafern on 12/04/2012 - 23:16

      Corsair website says 3 year warranty. So would we have to send it back to amazon or send it straight to corsair if we need to take it under warranty?

    • Claggs on 12/04/2012 - 23:45

      Should run the SSD fine.
      And it would probably be faster to send it to Corsair, but I'm sure if it was within 12 months that Amazon could handle it for you.

      • jonafern on 12/04/2012 - 23:48

        Thanks for the reply. Just bought one.

  • thebeastie on 13/04/2012 - 10:28

    I bought the M4 256gb last night on amazon from here.
    I couldn't bring my self buy the sand force based drives because of BSOD fears, at least on some of the amazon feedback on the sand force drives there are sorry posts saying don't think you can avoid the BSOD crashes as they hoped and spend a bit more.BUT on this Corsair drive on amazon there doesn't appear to be many posts on this, just a few, but still some. Good luck.

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