O-Sense
CONCLUSION
One thing’s crystal clear after testing the Force Series MP510 960GB NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD by CORSAIR and that’s that it’s the fastest SSD to ever make it to our lab by a large margin. Of course the MP510 may not be the fastest NVMe model in the market today but with performance numbers hitting and surpassing 3000MB/s in both reads and writes there’s nothing to be gained by going even higher, at least not for the vast majority of its potential target audience. Once again however thermal throttling is quite evident in our SNIA IOMeter charts and since this is neither expensive nor hard to resolve (just grab an high quality M.2 heatsink from our friends at EKWB – or any manufacturer for that matter) that’s also why to date we can’t figure out why that’s not something done directly from SSD manufacturers. Finally the 5 year warranty coupled with the impressive endurance numbers reported by CORSAIR are two extra significant reasons behind the why you choose the Force Series MP510 over competing products.
Price is the 4th reason you should grab yourself a Force Series MP510 NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD (after performance, endurance and warranty) since according to CORSAIR the 240GB model will retail for USD69.99/74.99Euros, 480GB model for USD129.99/139Euros, 960GB model for USD249.99/259.99Euros and finally the 1920GB model for USD499.99/519.99Euros. Of course we expect the competition to drop prices in order to compete with the MP510 (besides the margins are not that large to begin with) but there’s still endurance, warranty and of course performance. Bottom line you simply can’t go wrong with the brand new Force Series MP510 NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD by CORSAIR and since it ticks every single box we hoped it would (minus the thermal throttling issue which stands true for every NVMe drive out there) it deserves our Platinum Award.
PROS
- Top Of The Charts Performance (Up To 3480MB/s Read & 3000MB/s Write)
- Sustained Performance Levels (SNIA Tests)
- Endurance Numbers (1700TBW For The 960GB Model)
- CORSAIR SSD Toolbox Software (Available Settings)
- 5 Years Warranty
- Price (For Some)
CONS
- Thermal Throttling
