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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hugo.sousa - Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - link
Hi Bill,Where did you bought those refurbished drives?
goatfajitas - Thursday, October 18, 2018 - link
Yup, its easy enough to do it now on the cheap. A 1tb PCIe SSD for $235 (and a great performing one at that) for your data you access often and larger slower HDD's for less used data/backups etc.wumpus - Thursday, October 18, 2018 - link
HDDs are running $20/TB (Hitachi 3TB comes up cheapest on pcpartpicker), and even larger drives can be had cheap if you are willing to buy external drives on sale and "shuck" them.The real catch is that 90% of the people use about 100GB or so data, so sales of HDDs are pretty flat. So they stopped getting cheaper around 2011 and pretty much sat around waiting to be replaced by SDDs.
Prices are finally lower than 2011, but I really have to wonder if Moore's law has enough juice to get SDDs down to the level they need to kill off HDDs (in case you are wondering, tape is still alive and kicking. And makes all sorts of sense for storing data >100TB. I wonder if HDDs will go the same way "just for datahoarders".)
stargazera5 - Thursday, October 18, 2018 - link
@wumpus: "(in case you are wondering, tape is still alive and kicking. And makes all sorts of sense for storing data >100TB"Maybe tape looks good for >100TB, but there are a lot of us home power users who have 10-100 TB that could use a good WORM solution for backup. The cost of tape drives are quite high and drove TCO far too high to make good sense compared to buying additional HDDs a couple times a year, which isn't that cheap either and has far too low a frequency.
I also looked into online backup (e.g. Blackblaze, Carbonite, etc.) until I realized it would take 6 months to send them my base-line backup via my internet pipe (10 Mbps up)
No real good solutions here, but probably a pretty good market.
vanilla_gorilla - Thursday, October 18, 2018 - link
Some of those services offer disk based import/export options: https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/disk/details/Lolimaster - Thursday, October 18, 2018 - link
Crucial MX500 go to as low as 0.165 per GB.leexgx - Thursday, October 18, 2018 - link
""All capacities have a rated write endurance of around 0.9-1.0 drive writes per day and a five year warranty period, which are standard for high-end consumer SSDs""i thought 1.0 DWP was only for enterprise levels (most ssds have DWP of around 0.3)
Diji1 - Friday, October 19, 2018 - link
>You know, its getting to price points soon that home servers would easily use SSD drives vs mechanical.Er ... is it?
Diji1 - Friday, October 19, 2018 - link
Although there is no excuse for using spinning disks for the OS disk IMO.PaoDeTech - Thursday, October 18, 2018 - link
Please review Crucial P1 1TB 3D NAND NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD. I'm willing to pay $20 premium over SATA but not more. If the P1 1TB goes on black Friday sale for $179.99 I'll pull the trigger (MX500 1TB SATA is currently $159.99).Does anybody know what's the BOM cost difference between SATA and PCIe?