The Corsair Force MP510 SSD (960GB) Review: A High-End Contender
by Billy Tallis on October 18, 2018 10:00 AM ESTAnandTech Storage Bench - Light
Our Light storage test has relatively more sequential accesses and lower queue depths than The Destroyer or the Heavy test, and it's by far the shortest test overall. It's based largely on applications that aren't highly dependent on storage performance, so this is a test more of application launch times and file load times. This test can be seen as the sum of all the little delays in daily usage, but with the idle times trimmed to 25ms it takes less than half an hour to run. Details of the Light test can be found here. As with the ATSB Heavy test, this test is run with the drive both freshly erased and empty, and after filling the drive with sequential writes.
The Patriot Hellfire, in blue, is highlighted as an example of a last-generation Phison E7 drive. Although we didn't test it at the time, the MP500 was based on the same controller and memory.
The average data rates from the Corsair Force MP510 show a much larger performance hit for running the Light test on a full drive than we saw with the Heavy test, but in either case the MP510 maintains competitive performance.
The average and 99th percentile latencies from the MP510 are very low, though most of the NVMe drives listed here have sub-millisecond 99th percentile latencies and the differences generally imperceptible for workloads this light.
The MP510 continues to have some of the best write latencies and competitive read latencies, with the write latency in particular showing almost no penalty for running the test on a full drive.
The 99th percentile write latency of the Corsair MP510 on the Light test is minimal, showing that the entire test operates within the very fast SLC write cache. The read latencies are very good, but don't set any records.
The energy usage by the MP510 during the Light test is a bit better than average but still about 30% higher than the Crucial MX500 mainstream SATA SSD.
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ATC9001 - Friday, October 19, 2018 - link
Not bad...competition is good to drive prices down, but if I were in the market for an nvme drive I'd take the HP EX920 1TB for 199!euler007 - Friday, October 19, 2018 - link
I'm really liking these prices. If RAM comes down in price a new PC is in my future.enzotiger - Friday, October 19, 2018 - link
Please check your numbers. Random read IOPS of 610K is not only by far the highest IOPS among M.2, it actually beats Optane 905P. Highly suspicious.Billy Tallis - Monday, October 22, 2018 - link
The 610k IOPS for random reads is the advertised specifications from Corsair, not my own measurements. I don't test consumer drives at queue depths high enough to determine whether it can actually hit 610k IOPS, because that doesn't come close to representing any real consumer workload.Hxx - Friday, October 19, 2018 - link
those prices are wrong right? I see the 480 gb model for 240+ at amazon unless amazon is price gouging.eek2121 - Saturday, October 20, 2018 - link
All the big retailers have algorithms to automatically shift pricing based on supply vs demand. Anandtech lists the MSRPs, but if everyone rushes out to buy the drive at once, Amazon, Newegg, etc. want to make as much money as possible while still balancing supply vs demand, so the price automatically shifts up. I'm surprised people haven't figured this out yet. That's why you wait for demand to drop before buying a product.ballsystemlord - Sunday, October 21, 2018 - link
Tallis, where are the 4k sequential read and write tests? I have a use case for them!Billy Tallis - Monday, October 22, 2018 - link
I doubt it. Whatever OS and filesystem you are using is likely to have a prefetch mechanism that make your small block sequential reads into mostly large block reads, and write caching that will batch up small block sequential writes. If you're trying to bypass the write cache for small block writes, then you probably need to be shopping for an enterprise SSD.ballsystemlord - Monday, October 22, 2018 - link
Ok. Thanks!Violet Giraffe - Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - link
I'm keen to think a lot of real-life use cases are bound on small block reading speed. E. g. databases.