Corsair's Nova SSD 32GB and 256GB

Corsair is expanding its Nova Series of SSDs with two new models. The newcomers come to complete both ends of the series, in terms of capacity. The lower capacity unit has 32GB of storage space, whereas the larger one has 256GB. They are both enabled by the Indilinx barefoot SSD controller, which lets the drives reach maximum read and write speeds far above what HDDs, aided by their platter-spinning ways, can hope to ever achieve.

The 32GB Nova is slower, reading data at 195MB/s and writing at 75MB/s.  These rates are already good enough, but they are dominated by those of the 256GB model. This unit has maximum read/write speeds of 250MB/s and 195MB/s, respectively.

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