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CORSAIR Force Series MP300 480GB M.2 SSD Review

Storage/SSD by stefan @ 2018-10-26

The MP300 SSD from Corsair does offer good mainstream performance, with test results hovering around the rated speeds. By using Toshiba’s BiCS 3D TLC NAND ICs, the MP300 is no speed demon, but it is a very good replacement for the aging SATA3 standard. Thanks to the M.2 standard, the MP300 is very compact, single-sided and does not require extra cables in order to operate; the only thing you need to check before purchase is that your motherboard does support NVMe PCI-Express Gen 3.0 x2, otherwise the drive won’t be usable.

A Closer Look Contd.

The cut-outs for this particular model are described as M.2 module with “B+M” Key:

The opposite side presents itself with the mounting half-ring:

After peeling off the thermal sticker, we can take a look at the internals:

The Nanya NT5CC256M16DP 512Mb DDR3L cache runs at 1600MHz:

The main controller is a Phison PS5008-E8 PCIe 3.0 X2 NVMe 1.3:

The TA7AG55AIV NAND ICs are the manufactured by Toshiba (3D TLC BiCS):

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