Corsair Introduces The Neutron NX500 NVMe PCIe AIC SSD

[4960X]

 

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Corsair today announced the launch of the Neutron NX500 NVMe PCIe SSD AIC. The NX500 is up to five times faster than traditional SATA 3.0 SSDs. It offers up to 3,000MB/sec sequential read and 2,400 MB/sec sequential write speeds, or 300K/270K IOPS random read/write. The NX500 is the fastest SSD CORSAIR has ever produced.

 

http://www.relaxedtech.com/news/2017/corsair-introduces-the-neutron-nx500-nvme-pcie-aic-ssd/

 

 

I don't see them listed on newegg/amazon?

[Bananasplit_00]

Looks neat, probably too expensive for me though

[LucidMew]

3 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

Looks neat, probably too expensive for me though

http://www.corsair.com/en-us/neutron-series-nx500-400gb-nvme-pcie-aic-ssd
$319 for 400GB, and $659 for 800GB.

$0.7975/GB and $0.82375/GB respectively

[Bananasplit_00]

1 minute ago, LucidMew said:

http://www.corsair.com/en-us/neutron-series-nx500-400gb-nvme-pcie-aic-ssd
$319 for 400GB, and $659 for 800GB.

$0.7975/GB and $0.82375/GB respectively

Expensive but I could afford that if I really wanted to 

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5 minutes ago, LucidMew said:

http://www.corsair.com/en-us/neutron-series-nx500-400gb-nvme-pcie-aic-ssd
$319 for 400GB, and $659 for 800GB.

$0.7975/GB and $0.82375/GB respectively

Interesting, honestly, that seems reasonable considering it's bleeding edge speed.

[Jurrunio]

Nice competitor to Intel's Optane storage. The announced 900p can only do 2,500MB/sec sequential read and 2,000 MB/sec sequential write speeds, though 550K/500K IOPS random read/write speed is still vastly superior.

 

In terms of pricing though, 900p is really worth nothing but a " : P "

[dogetorhue]

From the picture, it looks like a PCIe x4 interface. I wonder when people will start to use 8 lanes of PCIe because x4 is going to be a bottleneck pretty soon the way SSDs are progressing. Wasn't there an Intel SSD with x8?

[dizmo]

Not bad. I love the look, hate the price. I'd just get the 960 Evo and bask in 20% more space for 70% the price.

[ErickS89]

*Checks Wallet

 

Probably expensive but probably worth it.

[Curufinwe_wins]

looks great... not worth it ofc, but cudos to Corsair for nailing the look.

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8 minutes ago, dogetorhue said:

From the picture, it looks like a PCIe x4 interface. I wonder when people will start to use 8 lanes of PCIe because x4 is going to be a bottleneck pretty soon the way SSDs are progressing. Wasn't there an Intel SSD with x8?

idk about any Intel one but you're right... upper limit for PCIe 3.0 4x, assuming no overhead (which idk if that's valid or not) should be around or just under 4 GB/s - a number we're fast approaching it seems.

 

I wonder which will come first, the leap to PCIe 4.0, or a bump up to PCIe 3.0 8x cards?  Either would double the bandwidth, but I think the trend is clear: eventually SSDs won't just an afterthought, they will actually take a meaningful number of lanes, as does you GPU, and so higher PCIe lane count CPUs (at least 24) will become a necessity, even on the lower end of the scale.

[dogetorhue]

6 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

idk about any Intel one but you're right...

Found it I think: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B015VWOGRE/?tag=pcpapi-20

 

At $9000, it can do 5GBps read and 3GBps write.

[TheUzu]

Well I saw no real benefit from getting a 960 pro so I doubt this make any sense.

[mr moose]

Last time I used a drive that plugged into an expansion slot it had a massive 20MB capacity.

[Doobeedoo]

Great and all but expensive. Would go Samsung 960 series. 

[Flavio hc 16]

Whats the point of this? At least here in italy i can buy a 1tb samsung 960evo for 400€, that is going to be faster

[PocketNerd]

10 minutes ago, Flavio hc 16 said:

Whats the point of this? At least here in italy i can buy a 1tb samsung 960evo for 400€, that is going to be faster

Try again, Corsair has slightly slower read but faster write.

[Flavio hc 16]

23 minutes ago, PocketNerd said:

Try again, Corsair has slightly slower read but faster write.

Yep but it is better to have better read than writes, also iops are in 960's favour by 10 and 20% respectively,  and still, you are comparing an 650$ 800gb ssd against a 400$ 1tb ssd, with those corsairs  value get trowed out of the windows 

[Tech Learner]

I'm sorry but a lot people are going to be sticking with m.2 for a long time cause they trust it and the cheap price that comes with it.