Hi Tezza192
Unfortunately there are number types of memory used for SSD's
Synchronous ,
Asynchronous & the most expensive & still in the unaffordable category
Toggle (of the non enterprise, PCI-e SSD's) flash (NAND non- volatile memory) and the Corsair Force 3 SSD uses the latter which usually bench test half as fast.
Drives that use the Synchronous type are more expensive than Asynchronous like the Corsair GT range.
Here is a link to an article by HardOcp to help you to get an insight (and understand the numbers game used by the OEM sales & advertising departments) into SSD memory
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2011/08/07/nand_flash_faces_off_synchronous_vs_asynchronous/ You did not mention the size of the Force 3 SSD as
120 gig Force 3 SSD's with serial numbers (on the drive label not the digital s/n)
1122xxx and under suffered from
BSOD crashing bug due to firmware & hardware (SF2281 controller) issue which caused Corsair to issue a recall for those drives see
http://forum.corsair.com/v3/showthread.php?t=95825 as you can see some people are still reporting problems with drives with s/n greater than 1123xxx being advised by Corsair to upgrade the SSD firmware again to another one provided by Corsair
This problem is not related to Corsair drives alone
Google sf2281 bug problems and you will see some 5 million plus hits.
In addition, it is strange that it has seemed to have had a greater affect on SF2281 controllers utilizing Asynchronous NAND memory.
In this day and age it is inevitable to get a few
BSOD problems but this has made people jittery with a C SSD system drive when the system suffers a
BSOD crash.
I too also had a 120 gig Force 3 (made sure of s/n first) mine was 1134xxx but still suffered a few too many crashes and RMA'd this drive with my supplier who has agreed and went with a 240 gig Corsair GT SSD instead (prices have dropped here from $480 to $350 mark in the last month) and had good benches for video NLE applications which is want I want
If you are interested a good article can be found here
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/corsair-kingston-ocz-patriot-ssd.html that goes into more detail on SSD memory and bench testing on a number of drives and their conclusions.
There are a number of good articles on the web that give results using utilities like the one mentioned above Crystal Disk Mark , HD Pro & PC Mark to name a few which also give details on their test rig setup
Cheers