 This is it guys, Corsair is 100% serious about the SSD game. For the first time they have an exclusive, unique controller design that they are shipping in their new Neutron and Neutron GTX line products. So we've got the Neutron GTX here today. This is the 240 gig capacity drive, so much like San Force drives. Corsair is setting aside about 13% of the total flash capacity for spare area, which allows the drive to keep the performance higher over time as it fills up with data, as well as just generally behave more smoothly. It also gives it a little bit of extra, so when cells eventually, and guys there's no avoiding this, the cells do eventually die, then it can use some of the spare area to compensate for that over time if you keep your drive for a very long time. So we have the 240 gig drive, this is using a totally new, totally custom controller. So let's go ahead and get this opened up and have a look. They've got a great package here. Corsair is so good at packaging. Shiny red, say the 3, 7mm height. Don't worry, I'll cover all this stuff in a moment, I'm just trying to figure out how to get it open here. So inside the box we've got, let's see, a warranty against defects, cool, notification for Australian customers. I must have gotten like an international sample or something. Right, we've got one of those 2.5 inch to 3.5 inch adapters. We've got screws for screwing into, you know, things such as your system or the adapter. Okay, there are two sets of screws, small ones for this, big ones for this. Now let's get into the drive itself. So this is using a Link Amedia LM87800 controller. It is a dual core controller, dual ARM cores actually, with 256 megs of fairly fast, fairly fast cache memory. All right, yeah, just a sec. Sorry guys, brain fart. I was looking for DDR2-800 cache memory, which is pretty fast compared to some of the other stuff out there. I mean, Crucial is using DDR3, but it's actually clocked slower, so, yeah, okay. So let's talk about what is, how this came to be. So Corsair has entered into an agreement with Link Amedia where they are actually collaborating and working together on this controller architecture, on this drive, to the point where even both of them are doing quality control. Because I know for a lot of consumers who have bought SSDs early on in their lifespans in the past, they've been burned with things like firmware issues or things like even data corruption, I mean even Intel hasn't been free from this. Micron, Crucial, had a firmware bug that caused the drives to just stop working after a set amount of time being powered on, which they then fixed with a firmware update. However, both Link Amedia and Corsair are doing extensive validation with this drive, and the firmware update process is extremely easy. And Corsair is estimating anywhere from about three days to issue a fix for any kind of firmware bugs that they find, and then from there, two weeks to determine if it breaks anything that wasn't broken by applying the fix. So overall, I'm expecting good things. I think Corsair is, I mean I think we all know that Corsair is pretty much A-OK when it comes to supporting their products, so I'm very excited to see how this shapes up over time because as much as the performance is great now, it's a SATA 3 drive, does support trim, maintains reasonable performance over time even if you hammer it really hard, and performs right up there with really high performance drives like the Intel 520, the Vertex 4, as well as the Plexdoor M3 Pro, even beating them in many cases. I'm really excited to see what is yet to come from this architecture because remember, it took Intel to really squeeze the most out of the San Force SATA 3 controller. So that took what, six months? A year? Something like that? So Corsair and Link Amedia have a lot of time to work on this and potentially squeeze even more out of it, and the flash isn't going to be a bottleneck, particularly on the GTX drive. The GTX drive uses Toggleman, which is the fastest stuff out there right now, and I think that's pretty much it. Yeah, we've almost wrapped up. So another cool thing about this drive is it uses a 7mm low profile. You know what, I'm actually going to go snag another drive just so that I can put them next to each other here and compare for you. So what that means is that some of the smaller notebooks or ultrabooks these days that are using 2.5 inch drives are lower profile than a standard drive. So you can see here, there's a 2mm difference between a 9mm drive and a 7mm drive. Corsair has done this in order to enable compatibility no matter what kind of a device you are installing the drive in. So with the included adapter, you can install it in a 3.5 inch bay, a normal 2.5 inch bay using the mounting screws on the bottom or the mounting screws on the side, or even a slim 2.5 inch bay due to the low profile design of the drive. The SATA 3 chipset, the SATA 3 connectors are at the back of the drive exactly where you'd expect them to be. And other than that, I guess all that remains now is waiting for the NCIX Tech Tips SSD update where we feature this guy and tell you a little bit about the performance.