Tom's Hardware Germany shared these photos and specs of two new cases from Corsair that are slated for July.
Carbide 400R
· All-black case
· removable drive bays for 6 x 2.5“ or 3.5“ drives
· 6 x 5.25“ drive bays
· up to 10 Fans (6 x 120 or 140 mm, plus 4x 120), with dual already pre-installed 120 mm at roof of case
· Native USB 3.0 ports on front panel (no pass-through cable that loops around the back), along with Audio, FireWire and a switch for case lights
· Load-bearing handle on the top to carry the case around
· Eight expansion slot positions
· Has "popped out" side-panels on both sides; these recesses allow cables to be snaked behind the motherboard tray and install very large coolers
· MSRP: $99 USD
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Carbide 500R
· Similar to 400R, but instead:
· 2 x 120 mm fans in front, 1 x 120 mm fan at rear and 1 x 200mm fan on side panel included
· Also, case has black/white or white/grey color scheme, no carrying handle
· MSRP: $129 USD
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ForceGT SSD
· SandForce SF-2281 controller, SATA 6Gb/s
· Capacities of 120 and 240, with 60 OR 90 following later (to be decided)
· Uses synchronous NAND, which improves performance with incompressible data (according toCorsair)
· Performance according to spec sheet:
o 120 GB version: 555 MB/s sequential read / 515 MB/s sequential write; 85k IOPS (4k aligned)
o 240 GB version 555 MB/s sequential read / 525 MB/s sequential write; 85k IOPS (4k aligned)
· Pricing tbd, availability "later in June"
Vengeance RAM
· now available as low profile and low power versions (white = low power, 1.35V)
· Pricing tbd, availability "later in June"
