Corsair expands the capacity of the Corsair Neutron NX500 drive, launching the 1.6TB drive, which will delight the most demanding users.
There is no question that implementing a solid-state drive for storage is the best possible option today, as it improves overall system performance. Corsair is one of the best companies in this segment and we could see it first-hand, thanks to the fact that they gave us the 500GB Neutron NX400. Now the company has introduced the Corsair Neutron NX500 of 1.6TB capacity, which quadruples the capacity of the unit that we had the pleasure to analyze and that allows users to have a system with greater capacity.
Review: Corsair Neutron NX500 400GB PCIe NVMe SSD Drive
This new NX500 1.6TB has a PCIe half height design, which makes it also ideal for HTPC and compact systems, where we would only have to change the docking bracket. It uses the PCIe 3.0 x4 connection interface, in addition to implementing the NVMe 1.2 protocol and is accompanied by the Phison PS5007-E7 controller, one of the best on the market in terms of speeds and memory management and speaking of memories, This unit makes use of MLC NAND memories manufactured by Toshiba using the 15nm process.
The unit can reach almost heart-stopping speeds, reaching a sequence reading speed of 3.000MH / s, while with regard to sequence reading, this unit reaches 2.300MB / s. Regarding random operations in 4K, it offers a total of 300.000IOPS in reading, while in writing it offers a total of 270.000IOPS. The price of this unit without taxes is € 1.770 and it will have a five-year warranty. We know that it is not at all an affordable price for everyone, but not everyone needs an SSD of such capacity.
