Corsair M.2 Force MP500 Gen 3 NVMe PCIe

Now that the prices of SSDs are starting to fall again, the competition is starting to take off again. Especially the new models from Crucial and Samsung bring some life back to the business, which was badly needed in this market. Last year there were...

PCI-Express SSDs are still quite expensive, but they also perform significantly better than SATA600 SSDs. A few years ago the additional price you paid for a high-end SSD barely gave you better performance due to the SATA600-bottleneck, but now the...

I picked up a Corsair Force MP500 NVMe M.2 solid-state drive for one of the new test systems in the Phoronix lab and so I ran some benchmarks on this high-performance drive compared to a few other SSDs.Curious about the Corsair NVMe SSD performance with...

Since the MP500 240GB mirrored the Patriot Hellfire 480GB so closely throughout the test suite, we're left with little doubt about how the drive will fare in our overall performance index. So let's not beat around the bush. As predicted, Corsair's...

It's been a while since Corsair unveiled a new SSD and today marks their first attempt with the M.2 form factor under the guise of NVMe.The storage sector has now fully embraced a step forward and away from SATA-based SSDs and there are already a lineup...

In short, we like the Corsair MP500 but we don't want to pay a high price for it. Corsair didn't lead with the Phison E7; it followed lesser known brands with a similar product. SSDs don't make the margins they used to so engineering resources are going away. Still, we expect a company with the talent that Corsair has to bring something new to the game.

In conclusion, not since the days of OCZ and their first generation Indilinx based Vertex series have we seen such a risky move pay off with such high dividends. Corsair may not be the first to use this new PHISION controller, but they are the first to do right. If you are interested in an amazingly powerful drive in an itty-bitty package the name Corsair needs to be on your lips. This is the series the average buyer should be looking at. Its performance, its value, and even its asking price leave little room for doubt.

Corsair has introduced a new line of flagship Corsair MP500 SSD, drives provides data transfer speeds of up to 3,000 MB / s read and 2400 MB / s write. As you can see, they are aimed at the high-end segment and potentially able to oust competitors. SSD...