Corsair Unwraps MP500, Its First NVMe SSD

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Like a child in the middle of the night, Corsair went under the Christmas tree to unwrap a package before CESmas. Inside was a new, high-performance entry to the Force Series dubbed MP500.

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[BadAsAl]

Wow, read/write speeds are impressive and stay consistent across the different sizes. If the speeds are anywhere near advertised this has to be one of the fastest, if not the fastest, consumer data storage devices. Might have to pick one up for testing purposes!

 

[dgingeri]

Add those performance numbers to the name Corsair, and they become hot commodities. This definitely has me interested.

 

[Hoyzon]

Is it faster than the Samsung 960 EVO/PRO?

 

[dgingeri]

Is it faster than the Samsung 960 EVO/PRO?

According to the numbers, it beats the 960 EVO and matches the 960 Pro, being a little faster on writes and a little slower on reads compared to the 960 Pro. However, that is just by the numbers. We have yet to see a review on it, so we'll have to wait and see.

 

[Hoyzon]

Is it faster than the Samsung 960 EVO/PRO?

According to the numbers, it beats the 960 EVO and matches the 960 Pro, being a little faster on writes and a little slower on reads compared to the 960 Pro. However, that is just by the numbers. We have yet to see a review on it, so we'll have to wait and see.

That is amazing, and it looks like it is actually available, and not that much expensive either, i hope to get one soon.

 

[Jim90]

Excellent, some immediate competition for Samsung 960. At least NVMe will guarantee plenty competition.
Hopefully AMD can do the same thing with Intel and NVIDIA.

 

[thundervore]

Aesthetics are good. Black PCB, nice branded Corsair heatsink with the correct text orientation.

 

[purpleponyspank]

Impressed to see 1GB of cache too, on the larger one. Samsung has 512MB on it's ~500GB 960 Pro model

 

[Bruce427]

On the surface, this looks like it *could* be the replacement for owners of Samsung 256GB 950 PROs who are ready to upgrade, but disappointed that Samsung deleted that capacity from their new 960 Pro lineup (a big mistake).

But many a *promising* drive has not lived up to expectations under four corner benchmarking. We'll just have to wait and see.

Chris, any idea on the time-frame for a full review?

Also, when do you expect to have your review of the 500GB 960 EVO ready?

 

[Jim90]

Just saw the price of the MP500...not good compared to the 960 Evo, so unfortunately no competition there, unless 4K QD1/2 phenomenal.

 

[Bruce427]

Depending on *which* 960 EVO you are comparing it to, the MP500 may be considerably better. It is likely far better than the 250GB 960 EVO, and we haven't seen a review on the 500GB 960 EVO.

 

[Bruce427]

@Chris,

Any idea when we will see a review on the MP500, as well as the Samsung 960 EVO 500GB?

Thanks