Corsair M.2 Force MP500 Gen 3 NVMe PCIe

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The Force MP500 is a solid offering from Corsair, it's just unfortunate that their fastest SSD to date has come hot on the heels of Samsung's competition-crushing 960 series.

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Last revision on June 24, 2022

Reviewers Liked

All around great performance
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Reviewers Didn't Like

Bad value next to Samsung's 960 Pro/Evo
Lack of progress for the E7 controller

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The Force MP500 is a solid offering from Corsair, it's just unfortunate that their fastest SSD to date has come hot on the heels of Samsung's competition-crushing 960 series.

By TechSpot on January 02, 2017

We like the Corsair Force Series MP500 240GB M.2 NVMe SSD for its raw mind-numbing speed and the only way we could like it more would be in the 480GB model. The 240GB model is great for a boot drive and your most used programs and most played games but...

By bjorn3d.com on April 24, 2017

As I said in the prologue, Corsair was able to surprise me once again with the Force MP500 NVMe SSD, and not only because of its performance, which is excellent. The Corsair Force MP500 NVMe SSD was able to reach its maximum read speed when tested with...

By MyCE on February 03, 2017

The force is strong with this one. The Corsair Force MP500 is by and large an enthusiast class SSD that can put a smile on any user's face. It comes with an abundance of features, thanks to Phison, that help to protect your data and help to deliver you...

By thessdreview.com on February 01, 2017

While Corsair has been busy producing some outstanding cases, PSU and other peripherals of late, things in the storage division of the company have seemed very quiet in comparison, well at least it would seem so from the outside.Now that's all changed...

By Kitguru.net on January 09, 2017

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We love anything NVMe these days. You'll be amazed how fast you get used towards 1, 2 even 3 GB/sec read speeds. The numbers that these NVMe M2 units produce are obviously staggering and as such impressive. Now keep in mind, going from a HDD towards an...

By Guru of 3D on December 22, 2016

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...

By uk.hardware.info on September 29, 2018

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...

By uk.hardware.info on September 09, 2017

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...

By Phoronix on June 15, 2017

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...

By The Tech Report on May 18, 2017

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