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Review: Corsair Force Series MP510 960GB M.2 SSD
It has been long since I have been so excited about an M2 SSD, meet the Corsair Force Series MP510 M.2, an M2 SSD with the all-new Phison PS5012-E12 series NVMe controller. This puppy is as fast as the 970 series from Samsung, and simply put priced, very attractive. A must read if you plan to opt an M2 SSD anytime soon.
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#5597498 Posted on: 10/17/2018 11:33 PM
So corsair doesn't really make any of their own stuff ( a common thing). Who is making these for them? Toshiba makes the flash, and Phison makes the controller........I am just curious who assembles these for corsair.
So corsair doesn't really make any of their own stuff ( a common thing). Who is making these for them? Toshiba makes the flash, and Phison makes the controller........I am just curious who assembles these for corsair.
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#5597568 Posted on: 10/18/2018 06:42 AM
Is there any advantage of these NVMe drives over a SATA3 SSD? It seems that in all read world tests shown in this article that they perform almost within margin of error of SATA3 SSD's, I'm talking game load time, PC start up time, application load time, even things like Photoshop. The only thing that really stands out as a real world winner for NVMe vs SATA3 SSD is large file copy, that 38 GB compressed MKV file copy test, and that's not something that I nor almost anyone does on any regular basis. NVMe also seems more susceptible to heat issues & thermal throttling, which if it happens drops performance to less than SATA3 SSD (I think). To me it seems like the only argument to get an NVMe drive is if you've run out of space for SATA3 SSD's in your PC and you want to use up that empty NVMe slot, but even then the drives are more expensive than SATA3. Is there really any real world benefit of NVMe? (I've got an empty NVMe slot on my motherboard, if prices of NVMe dropped I might get one if I need more storage, don't need it yet.)
Is there any advantage of these NVMe drives over a SATA3 SSD? It seems that in all read world tests shown in this article that they perform almost within margin of error of SATA3 SSD's, I'm talking game load time, PC start up time, application load time, even things like Photoshop. The only thing that really stands out as a real world winner for NVMe vs SATA3 SSD is large file copy, that 38 GB compressed MKV file copy test, and that's not something that I nor almost anyone does on any regular basis. NVMe also seems more susceptible to heat issues & thermal throttling, which if it happens drops performance to less than SATA3 SSD (I think). To me it seems like the only argument to get an NVMe drive is if you've run out of space for SATA3 SSD's in your PC and you want to use up that empty NVMe slot, but even then the drives are more expensive than SATA3. Is there really any real world benefit of NVMe? (I've got an empty NVMe slot on my motherboard, if prices of NVMe dropped I might get one if I need more storage, don't need it yet.)
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#5597729 Posted on: 10/18/2018 04:33 PM
I'm interested in the 2TB version. It's listed as being available starting next week. The price is right compared to all of the other M.2 drives of that size.
I'm interested in the 2TB version. It's listed as being available starting next week. The price is right compared to all of the other M.2 drives of that size.
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#5597757 Posted on: 10/18/2018 05:53 PM
for Robbo9999;
the nvme drives are day and night real world over SATA 3.
i made the mistake of loading AOTS and Cuphead to my SATA 3 ssd (running out of C: space) and the difference was huge. as in several minutes vs under 30 sec.
i slowly migrated to all ssd from spinners (now only in NAS) and that was a huge jump in performance. the difference between nvme and SATA doesn't seem at first to be as large a leap, but it is. granted you are going from several minutes (or more depending on rpm) to less than half of that loading up most games, but as game files have gotten larger the difference between SATA and NVME is much more pronounced.
and of course if you're used to manipulating huge files like raw, photoshop, blender, and even compression and batch conversion software the difference is time saved in large measures.
for Robbo9999;
the nvme drives are day and night real world over SATA 3.
i made the mistake of loading AOTS and Cuphead to my SATA 3 ssd (running out of C: space) and the difference was huge. as in several minutes vs under 30 sec.
i slowly migrated to all ssd from spinners (now only in NAS) and that was a huge jump in performance. the difference between nvme and SATA doesn't seem at first to be as large a leap, but it is. granted you are going from several minutes (or more depending on rpm) to less than half of that loading up most games, but as game files have gotten larger the difference between SATA and NVME is much more pronounced.
and of course if you're used to manipulating huge files like raw, photoshop, blender, and even compression and batch conversion software the difference is time saved in large measures.
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The winner in these tests, and overall best performance/price ratio goes to the 480gb SX8200 from ADATA, check the price and you'll see what i mean