Corsair Releases Neutron NX500 PCI-E SSDs

Corsair has released the Neutron NX500 series of SSDs. These are NVME SSDs in a PCI-e card version with storage capacities of 400GB, 800GB and 1600GB. The manufacturer claims read and write speeds of up to 3000MB/s and 2400MB/s.

According to Corsair, the design with a hefty heatsink ensures that there is no throttling and that the temperatures are up to 20 degrees Celsius lower than with fast NVME-M2 SSDs. The NX500 SSDs must be placed in a PCI-e-x4 slot.

The Neutron NX500 SSDs use 15nm MLC Nand memory from Toshiba and have a Phison PS5007-E7 controller with DDR3 cache on board. With random reads and writes, the SSDs are good for 300,000 and 270,000iops according to the specifications. The versions with a capacity of 400GB and 800GB are available immediately, online stores offer them for around 350 and 750 euros. The 1600GB variant will follow later in August.

According to a review from Hardware.info, the 800GB version has 2GB cache, while the 400GB version has 1GB. In practical benchmarks from the website, the SSD is slower than cheaper competitors such as the Samsung 960 Evo and 960 Pro. Tom’s Hardware shares that conclusion, but praises the durability of the SSD.