Corsair Performance Pro Series SSDs

If you're looking for a SSD to speed up your system, Corsair brings yet another option to the table with their new range of Performance Pro SSDs, with Marvell 6Gb/s controllers promising 515/440 MB/s of read/write speeds.

And you don't even have to worry about manual "trim" operations (to restore the drive performance to its original levels by marking unused blocks as empty), as Corsair has implemented a auto-trim function so you can rest assured your drive is always in top-shape, even if it's "hidden" behind an otherwise impassable RAID controller.

Prices start at $280 for the 128GB version, and be sure you have a 6Gbps SATA motherboard before you consider going the extra mile for these kind of speeds.

Corsair Force Series 3 SSD

If you're after a speedy - but still affordable - SSD, looks like Corsair's new Force Series 3 SSDs might be just what you're looking for.

These Corsair SSDs use brand new SandForce controllers (SandForce SF-2281) and SATA III 6Gbps connections for maximum performance. What does all that mean? It means you can get up to 550 and 520 MBps read and write speeds, and handle 85,000 IOPs.

Not bad at all considering you can get these Force Series 3 SSDs starting at just $139 for the 60GB model. ($219 for the 120GB, and $499 for the 240GB model)