Pros: -Cost effective -Good Speeds The speeds on this drive are right around what is advertised. My average speeds during benchmarks were 558 MB/s Read and 307 MB/s Write. This SSD offers very good performance for the price point that it is at. Its actual retail price seems a bit high, but I have never seen it where it is NOT on sale, making it an excellent value. As with any SSD, it is so very much better than a hard drive. Faster, less energy, less heat – all great things for a low-power laptop or even a nice powerful desktop!

Cons: -Nothing extra included Most SSDs at least come with mounting screws, this one came with nothing in the box other than the SSD and a small warranty paper. This wasn’t really a problem for me, but it is something to keep in mind if you don’t have an area to mount a 2.5” drive, you may need to get an adapter or at least some screws or a SATA cable.

Overall Review: -Corsair Warranty -Cat vs laptop Keep in mind this is not a top of the line SSD. There are faster SSDs, but they are also priced higher. This is also not a low-end SSD, but the price does compete with some of those. It is an excellent choice for the price that it has. Having recently dealt with customer support for a minor LED issue in a keyboard, I can say that their customer support is amazing. My experience with their products has also been amazing. At this moment, I am using 6 Corsair products (between peripherals and what is in my computer – one being an SSD that I have been using with absolutely no issue for 3 years), some for several years, and the only failure has been an LED on a keyboard. So their products are reliable. Beyond that, when I did contact customer support about the LED issue, they had an RMA issued to me in less than 48 hours, offered to pay for shipping, and offered to provide an advance replacement before I shipped back my keyboard – I did not have to fight for or ask for any of this, it was just offered. As this device has a 3 year warranty, that is a major selling point for me. When I used this to replace the hard drive in my laptop, it prevented the laptop from overheating when the cat would lie beside it and cover the hard drive exhaust vent! No more overheating caused by a lazy cat.

Pros: This drive was installed, detected, and easily formatted in a matter of minutes on my system as a second SSD to my Samsung 850 PRO. At 960GB, this would be a great SSD to put in a laptop! I used AS SSD Benchmarking tool to test this drive, and Corsair's claimed speeds are very close to actual speeds...remember, their speeds are MAX, not average! Corsair claimed MAX speeds: Max Sequential Read: Up to 560 MB/s Max Sequential Write: Up to 540 MB/s My tested AVERAGE speeds using 10GB file: Sequential Read: 524 MB/s Sequential Write: 502 MB/s These speeds are almost identical to my Samsung 850 Pro which is one of the highest rated SSDs on the market! I did a 6GB video file transfer from the Samsung to the Corsair and averaged about 420 MB/s...not shabby for real world application. To give you an idea of an HDD compared to an SSD, I also tested a WD Black Edition SATA 3 mechanical drive with the benchmarking tool and the transfer rate is laughable in comparison: Sequential Read: 77 MB/s Sequential Write: 73 MB/s This drive also has very good software that you download from Corsair for setting it up and maintenance.

Cons: So far, I can find nothing to complain about with this drive. It is extremely fast and with a 3 year warranty, it sounds as if Corsair has tested this drive extensively for dependability.

Overall Review: I believe this drive would be a fantastic upgrade for a laptop because of it's size and speed...you can get away with a smaller, cheaper SSD for a desktop because you can add a mechanical drive to handle the storage of programs and files. This is big enough to not have to worry about space.

Pros: This drive was really easy to install. Plugged in SATA connector, powered on and it was recognized right away and formatted quickly using Disk Management in windows. I used CrystalDiskMark (64bit) to run a benchmark getting Read times of 459.4MB/s and Writes of 352.7MB/s. I'm happy with this score as it doubles that of my "moving parts" hard drive. I also file transferred a 6GB video. This drive transferred 17 seconds faster than my non SSD hard drive. I was also very pleased with that. That's pretty fast considering It only took 21 seconds to transfer a 6GB video. Game load times! My game of choice is ARMA3. Its a HOG and really takes a long time to load without using parameters that cut out the credit intros and such. Using my NON SSD ARMA3 takes me 53 seconds to load. After I installed ARMA3 on the Corsair Force LS It launched in just 41 seconds.

Cons: Yikes! When UPS showed up at my doorstep with a folded over padded envelope I got pretty nervous. Not as nervous as I was when I opened the envelope to see the small box this comes in was slightly squished on one of the corners. What made me even more nervous was that after I opened it I seen the drive was plastic. Oh well, nervous for nothing. Everything was fine. Fortunately for me I bought an Aluminum mounting bracket that holds 4 SSD's a couple years back. My case did not have a space to mount an SSD, but the bracket remedied that. I believe most newer cases will have some type of mounting solution for SSDs.

Overall Review: My OS runs off of 2 SSD's running in RAID0. Its blazingly fast. CrystalDiskMark tests them to run at a full Read of 602MB/s. LOL, didn't even think that was possible. When buying SSD's one has to measure speed for size. For some people time is money and might get better results in a faster SSD or perhaps running 2 of these in RAID0. For some more budget concerned people its better to get more drive than speed. Only you can decide what is right for you. The Corsair Force LS 960GB is a good size drive that gives "better" performance at a reasonable price. It is a great middle of the road option for people that are on the fence about buying SSD's and don't want to compromise size for speed. I do recommend this drive. Tests performed on My rig intel i7 2600k OC'd to 4.4ghz 8GB DDR3 1600 H700 perc raid controller card windows 7ultimate

Pros: Fast, inexpensive for the capacity, backwards compatible with SATA2

Cons: None

Overall Review: The Corsair Force LS 120 GB hits hard as a value oriented drive that also happens to perform pretty well. Read performance benchmarks at 216 MB/s average. Write performance benchmarked at 193 MB/s average. I copied a 1.8 gig zip file from a Samsung 830 Pro in 12 seconds, that ought to be fast enough for this price range. Benchmarked on an ASRock based desktop PC, but put into practical use on a Lenovo X230. I found it perfectly up to the task, more than doubling startup speed over the hard drive it came with. The drive is small and almost ridiculously lightweight. It stayed surprisingly cool under testing. It would be a good idea to make sure automatic defrag is disabled (type dfrgui.exe into the Search bar from the Start menu, from there you can disable the schedule) That should improve the lifespan of the drive as defragging is unnecessary on SSDs. This would be a great drive to pop into an older notebook or for use as a boot/application drive in a budget PC. For for price, it's tough to beat. I know the Kingston V300 is popular at this price point, but honestly I'd take this Corsair Force LS over it any day.

Pros: Incredible price for performance! Even at 149.99 the 'regular' price for this drive, you are not sacrificing quality to get more space. Often times, the larger SSD drives get to a crazy price per gig. Generally a 120 gig is sufficient for most everything daily users would use. Going to the 240 gig drive just enables you to save much larger files to the SSD. Its rather difficult for any real proof on its reduced power consumption. One has to assume that this information is accurate as advertised. However, the reduced heat is fairly accurate. Generally the corner of my laptop where the hard drive bay is gets a bit warm, have not had that happen yet after hours of use. Size, it is very easy to fit both SSD's in the laptop bay. The speed test results are proof that the product delivers right where its advertised. Difficult to really test the power loss protection on the device. I've had one SSD fail previously due to a power spike/outage issue previously. It was an immediate failure and lost all information stored. Hopefully this technology will help prevent anything like this from happening.

Cons: I haven't had any issues with overall performance of the drive. The only thing that really caught my eye is the plastic frame on the unit. Some of my other SSD units have a metal frame that feel more secure. This is nothing to take eggs off for.

Overall Review: Not real sure why its advertised as cool and 'quiet' there is no moving parts, if your SSD is making noise... you've got big problems. The 3 year warranty on the device is an easy sell. Although all SSD units will meet their end eventually, its nice to know if you're a heavy user, this could help!

Pros: Small, light, an very quick read speeds. Excellent value to performance ratio.

Cons: Less than stellar write speeds, but well within tolerances. Plastic build.

Overall Review: This drive arrives in a minimal but adequately protective cardboard box. No mounting screws or accessories are included, as it typical for a hard drive. The drive itself is a 2.5" form factor, 7mm stack height, which means you can squeeze it into some really tiny enclosures. The drive housing is manufactured from plastic, par for the course in value-priced SSD's. The build quality seems right on parity with what I have seen from other manufacturers, and all the dimensions seem within spec. Just go easy tightening those screws! I immediately formatted the drive Mac OS Extended, and it was off an running in my Mac OS environment. The primary application for SSD's of the 120gb capacity is as boot drives, and in this application this drive ought to be a solid performer. I benchmarked sustained reads of 316 MB/s using the Blackmagic Disk Speed Test tool. This is a very string showing for a value-oriented SSD. My higher-end Samsung Evo and OWC Mercury Elite drives can pin this test at 515 MB/s, but this guy smokes the older Crucial SSD I use as an editing scratch disk, which tops out at 260 MB/s. For comparison sake, a WD Caviar Black spinny-disk doesn't crack 90 MB/s in this test, and a G-Tech RAID 0 two-drive array hits 223 MB/s. Connected via a UASP-enabled USB3 external enclosure, the write speeds fell way off, but read speeds were right in line with the original testing. I'm not entirely sure if this is the drive, the enclosure, or the USB3 controller (Intel 7-series under Mac OS). I performed a 100gb write cycle to this drive with no issues, and though it did get quite warm thermal management was well within expected tolerances, and write speeds sustained throughout the transfer. Like all SSD's, it is silent. Overall, my experience with this drive has been positive, and I will continue to beat on it, errr, test it, by filling it with video files for clients and throwing it to the capricious winds of FedEx. It has been through two such cycles so far and is none the worse for the wear. In closing, this seems like a nice value in a consumer-grade SSD, a very worthy upgrade for anyone still booting off of a spinning disk. I hasten to add that the true test of any SSD is longevity, and I can't yet speak to how many read/write cycles this can sustain.

Pros: At a job a few years back I wrote windows and Linux code to program, calibrate, and troubleshoot SAS and SATA SSDs so I know quite a bit more than an average engineer. During that time I learned quite a bit about what is important and what isn’t – and it’s rarely advertised. I specialized in products that were for enterprise segment, i.e. very large storage companies with three letter names. More than with mechanical drives SSDs are a real commodity business – the controllers (most are Sandforce) and memory (Samsung, Micron, etc) are made by 2-3 companies so most drives contain the same parts. So long as they do a reasonable job manufacturing and testing it really doesn’t make too much difference who made the drive. The small performance gains from a drive from ABC and from XYZ are really not a big deal – SSDs are just FAST and comparing performance numbers of drives that all use the same controllers and memory is really a bit foolish, but hey, the charts are pretty. So what is a big deal? Manufacturing drive testing, configuration software, and how they setup the drives defaults. Consumer made drives get the minimum testing it takes to insure a statistically good product, enterprise is much more rigorous. One of the best parts of this drive doesn’t even come with it, you have to go out to http://www.corsair.com/en-us/blog/2013/may/the-corsair-ssd-toolbox and download the SSD Toolbox (CSSDT). The toolbox will allow you to update the firmware if needed (the FW on the drive I received was up to date (SAFC01.3 – as of July 17, 2015), Overprovisioning, S.M.A.R.T. drive cloning, Optimization (TRIM), Secure Wipe. The 3 year warranty is a good indicator that the drive was sufficiently tested during the manufacturing process as warranty periods are calculated to insure that manufacturer make a profit and you can’t do that if you have to replace lots of them. Three years reflects confidence which comes from reasonable testing.

Cons: I upgraded from a 250GB SSD to the Corsair LS 960, I needed to clone the drive. I’ve heard people say this is foolish, which I disagree with if you have a significant investment in SW that will only let you reinstall it 1-2 times. The Corsair utility informed me that it wouldn’t support the cloning operation, no explanation on why – so I ended up downloading EaseUS Todo backup free and ran it. About 2 hours later I saw that my PC had slept itself and there was an error which may have had to do with the PC going to sleep during the backup (don’t know), so I dug up a much older version which was bootable on a DVD while the two drives cloned successfully, then I used Windows 7 to expand the partition to the maximum size. Complaint: The Disk Clone function (if you want to clone a disk) didn’t work on my Windows 7 machine – normally a one drive machine – I added both the source and destination disks for the clone (3 drives total). In my opinion the single most important parameter of an SSD (aside from size) is overprovisioning – my heart sank when I read that the default provision on the drive was 0% from the utility, so I signed up to get on the corsair support to talk to someone and found an article that stated their default provisioning was 7% (it didn't mention this specific drive - I am assuming) - the typical provisioning for a consumer drive so the utility was listing *additional* overprovisioning. So this wasn’t bad – but because I had to go digging for it I have a problem with the sparse specifications. I know this is because they don’t what to have to explain to customers the technical aspects as it often raises more questions than it answers, drives are complex and filled with trade-offs and ambiguity – they probably don't want to pay their support people to have to educate the public.

Overall Review: There is much more I would like to write to explain about SSDs that isn’t real common knowledge, but I’ve at least covered most of it. S.M.A.R.T prams aren’t worth much – statistically drives usually die without advertising this in advance which is supposedly much of the reason S.M.A.R.T params exist. One of the main functional differences between consumer and enterprise drives is provisioning, where with enterprise it is typically 28%. This means there is the drive is 28% large than the advertised size, you won't see it when you look at the drive size as the controller only shows the usable NAND. I’ve read many ill-informed writers who say O.P. can be taken care of by TRIM, and GC (Garbage Collection) – they do not understand its main purpose. Its purpose is that as the drive ages (via use) sectors of memory go bad and the O.P. uses the spare memory to replace the working memory – the more O.P. memory, the longer life in the drive (assuming nothing else dies). I suggest maxing it out and though it appears that Corsair limits you to only another ~7% more (total ~14%), that’s much closer to enterprise and the odds that your drive survives years longer is greater. The percentage is how much your drive shrinks – so understand the trade-off. If you want your drive to last, I strongly suggest maximum OP and deal with the lost space rather than the lost drive. I ended up with 835 GB with 60GB eaten by additional overprovisioning (assuming there was a default 7% already built in - now about 14%) - not at all bad for a drive in this size/price range. Many drives you can't change the O.P. and most consumer drives don't list it though it's really important for long life in a drive. I would also strongly suggest enabling TRIM with the utility – especially on older OS versions. From everything I can determine from the specs and the use (and assuming there is a default 7% OP), while not perfect, it appears to be a decent product with a reasonable configuration and utilities – I would recommend this drive.

Pros: Good midrange SSD. It's not the fastest SSD out there, but you're not going to be paying screaming eagle prices for one of these, either. It's also not the slowest SSD out there, and of course you're not going to be paying dirt eagle prices. Its speed is right about where you'd expect -- speedy but not blisteringly fast. Obviously since it's an SSD, it's silent when running. Doesn't run very warm either; typically sits right around room temperature. SATA 3 interface, though it falls back to SATA 2 automatically. (Didn't bother with SATA 1.)

Cons: No mounting hardware included at all -- hope you have some screws handy!

Overall Review: Warranty support from Corsair is pretty good. They're reasonably easy to get a hold of, and their swap out policy is pretty good. Also this drive carries a 3 year warranty unlike some others (*cough*OCZ*cough*) so you won't feel abandoned after the sale.