Storage speeds make a mockery of the famous Moore's Law. It was relatively recently that we moved from IDE to SATA and the speed benefits that brought. Yet within a very short timespan we've gone from 1.5Gbp/s SATA through 3.0Gbp/s to the 'available on everything' SATA 6Gbp/s. Whereas not long ago the Velociraptors were considered the titans of the speed world, we quickly had Solid State Drives, and they utterly redefined what we think of as fast data transfer. It didn't even stop there as the companies launched into an ever escalating arms race to bring us ever faster SSDs and we've recently seen some extraordinary performance from drives such as the Kingston Hyper X and Samsung 830. With the Sandforce controller appearing at the head of the pack in pure speed terms then combining that with a SATA 6Gbp/s interface we've seen drives that get very close to 500MB/s in certain situations, but still well north of 300MB/s in actual use. Enter Corsair with the Force GT range of Solid State Drives. It has all the boxes ticked for some amazing speeds. It uses a Sandforce SF-2281 controller which has lots of tricks up its sleeve to compress the data and really bring that performance up to incredible levels. It's on a SATA 6Gbp/s interface, so bandwidth shouldn't be an issue. The models we have on test today are the 240GB variants, and larger capacity SSDs generally have better performance than the smaller versions. Finally the key word in that sentence was models. Plural. We have two Force GT 240GB drives here, set up in RAID 0 to really see how fast it's possible to go. Three years ago SSDs appeared with promises of 90MB/s. This set up should give us 1GB/s. Let's find out.