Corsair Neutron NX500

Corsair once again has deliver an excellent drive, the Neutron NX500 has outstanding read performance, in real world tests and also on every other test that I run. Not that frequently I have the pleasure to test drives that can achieve over 300K IOPS...

With all the latest mainboards featuring at least one M.2 NVMe compatible slot (most come with two) it's a safe guess that the majority of people interested in the NX500 and other PCIe SSDs will be owners of older models like the X79 of...

The Phison E7 NVMe SSD platform has provided us with a very interesting case study of the effects SSD controller firmware can have on the performance of drives with almost identical hardware. All Phison E7 drives on the market use Toshiba 15nm MLC NAND....

The Neutron NX500 800GB is a beautiful SSD that is 200GB shy of a full deck. The increased overprovisioning doesn't boost performance as much as we expected, and application performance falls in the middle of existing 1TB products. Sadly, this drive costs more then that 960 Pro, and that's unacceptable for buyers.

It's tough to be particularly amazed by any SSD these days. The throughput boost over SATA drives that PCIe NVMe drives enjoy is by now well established, and even among our small selection of relatively old drives (we haven't had many SSDs in of late),...

As SSDs go, the Corsair NX500 is a thing of beauty. The Phison E7 controller offers good performance, and the industrial design is very well thought out, making the NX500 a likely default choice for those wanting to show off their SSD in a custom PC...