New Corsair Force Series MP500 M.2 Launched

[Blitzbrieg Dimarectic]

As of January 13th of 2017 Corsair launched its new line of M.2 cards to the public. I didn't really know what was going on until I saw newegg listing it as an new product. I was on the market for an M.2 and then I realised how much cheaper and more cost effective this card could be against Samsung's 950 Pro. So I did some digging and low and behold! Here is a link to read more in depth about Corsair's launch.

 

http://www.corsair.com/en-us/company/press-release/corsair-unveils-its-fastest-ever-ssd-range-the-force-series-mp500-m-2-nvme-pcie-ssd

 

For it being that fast and that low of cost i'm deffinantly going to buy one.

 

I'll be back here when I get one to tell you the experience since I never got to feel the speed of an NVMe drive.

 

Here is a great deal on the Corsair Force MP500 M.2 2280 480GB PCI-Express 3.0 x4 Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CSSD-F480GBMP500 , http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=20-236-158
I found.

[iRileyx]

£117 for a 120gb version?  

 

£334 for a 480gb version.. not much cheaper than the 512gb 960 pro tbh.

[Blitzbrieg Dimarectic]

I was looking at the price to Performance ratio. If you're more worried about price per gigabyte, then an M.2 Drive might not be for you.

[tlink]

31 minutes ago, Blitzbrieg Dimarectic said:

I was looking at the price to Performance ratio. If you're more worried about price per gigabyte, then an M.2 Drive might not be for you.

the 960 pro is m.2 nvme.

[goodtofufriday]

35 minutes ago, Blitzbrieg Dimarectic said:

I was looking at the price to Performance ratio. If you're more worried about price per gigabyte, then an M.2 Drive might not be for you.

I wouldnt say that. You can get some slightly older drives in the 500gb range for 150$ easy

[Tam3n]

And Samsung 960 Evo version is even cheaper... For pretty much the same performance.

[Blitzbrieg Dimarectic]

4 hours ago, Tam3n said:

And Samsung 960 Evo version is even cheaper... For pretty much the same performance.

Will you send me the link? I'd like to see. Might be something worth investing in. BTW I do shop newegg because I have a premiere account with them.

[The Benjamins]

As cool as NVME drives are I still prefer SATA SSDs due to cost/capacity. Love my 2 512 raid0 array

[Tam3n]

47 minutes ago, Blitzbrieg Dimarectic said:

Will you send me the link? I'd like to see. Might be something worth investing in. BTW I do shop newegg because I have a premiere account with them.

Well this price doesn't probably apply to your shopping area, but here's euro price in Germany (they can ship to Finland...) http://www.mindfactory.de/product_info.php/500GB-Samsung-960-Evo-M-2-2280-NVMe-PCIe-3-0-x4-32Gb-s-3D-NAND-TLC-Toggl_1124978.html

 

I've been thinking of upgrading my storage, but nvme premium just seems too much when you could get just something like this instead: http://www.mindfactory.de/product_info.php/960GB-SanDisk-Ultra-II-2-5Zoll--6-4cm--SATA-6Gb-s-TLC-Toggle--SDSSDHII-96_974785.html

[SurvivorNVL]

I'd get this if it were 2TB.  Love Corsair and American products, but, no 2TB so trapped on the 960 with Samsung.

[FourCorners]

Isn't Intel's 600p series of NVMe M.2 drives a better value if you really wanted an M.2 drive?

[Juanitology]

7 hours ago, Sampsy said:

Heck, the 512GB Samsung 960 Pro is cheaper than the 480GB Corsair MP500 on OCUK. The 960 Pro also has faster reads (3500MB/s vs 3000MB/s) and IOPS (330k/330k vs 250k/210k) although the MP500 does edge it out on writes (2100MB/s vs 2400MB/s).

Realistically speaking, unless you're copying from one m.2 drive to another you'll never notice that 300MB/s difference

[Notional]

23 minutes ago, Terodius said:

Realistically speaking, unless you're copying from one m.2 drive to another you'll never notice that 300MB/s difference

But you will notice the higher price of the Corsair drive. What a shame. The point of high end M.2 NVME drives, is to drive down the price, not up it. Toshiba isnøt helping either.

[Juanitology]

1 minute ago, Notional said:

Toshiba isnøt helping either.

If I had a dollar for every time I accidentally typed ø instead of ' because of the damn nordic keyboard layout