Corsair Force MP600 Series 500GB PCIe Gen.4 NVMe M.2-2280 Internal Solid State Drive

This is a very fast NVME M.2 PCI Express 4.0 drive. It's mostly easy to install and once installed worked well with a Windows 10 Professional x64 installation. However, there are two problems.It has a very high cost per GB, but this is common in NVME M.2 PCI Express 4.0 drives. They all use the same Phison controller but they offer much higher speeds using AMD motherboards that support PCI Express 4.0.The other problem is the passive cooler that comes with the drive. A lot of motherboards have integrated NVME drive coolers as part of a plate and to use Corsair's cooler, you'd have to hack a part of the motherboard cover plate off. I chose to use the integrated motherboard cooler instead, but this is a pain in the neck, as I believe there will be future active NVME active coolers (probably with small fans) that would do a much better job than either the integrated or manufacturer supplied passive coolers. I think this is more the fault of the motherboard manufacturers than Corsair and the NVME drive manufacturers.

As of the time I purchased this (I was one of the lucky ones that pre-ordered before the page was removed), the top end PCIe Gen 3 drives were exactly price matched with this drive. So getting PCIe Gen 4 speeds with no price premium was really nice of Corsair to do.I have two of these in RAID 0 in an MSI X570 Ace motherboard. The resulting 2 TB RAID 0 drive is then partitioned into two volumes: A 450GB partition for the OS (Windows 10 64bit Home), then the remaining space is one volume where I install the stuff that I want to access at PCIe Gen 4 speeds.The drives themselves are incredibly fast. Yes, you really need PCIe Gen 4 if you want to take advantage of the speeds these drives are capable of producing.Unfortunately, the current RAID 0 implementation of the MSI X570 Ace isn't good; the speed benefit from RAID 0 is negligible; you will get 90% of the RAID 0 speed by just using the drives as standalone, non-RAID drives. This will vary from motherboard to motherboard, so your mileage may (and will) vary.The drives run cool, thanks to their huge heatsinks. IMO, Corsair should not have pre-attached the heatsinks, as many motherboards come with built in actively cooled cooling solutions for m.2 drives. Users could either use the heatsinks or not, depending upon their own usage scenario. Other than this one small thing, I have zero complaints. These drives are cost competitive, very fast, and run cool. Corsair knocked this one out of the park.

Working great in my PS5! The 2TB model gave results a little over 5400MB/s in the automatic PS5 test at installation. It is slightly below recommended minimum speed of 5500MB/s, but I do not believe this tiny difference will ever be noticeable. I did need to create a cover for the slot as the metal cover would not fit due to the size of the heatsink. I used carefully cut wide thick tape. I carved the edges of the tape with a sharp knife for a perfect fit; making sure to keep all airflow slots clear. This allows airflow to work identically to the metal plate. I have found this SSD to be considerably faster and more reliable than the several external USB 3.1 SSD drives I tried to use on my PS5 prior to this. I can now safely leave my PS5 in sleep mode and it will do automatic updates and downloads without errors or “rebuilds”.EDIT: December 28th, 2021: Still working great after more than 3 months of heavy use in my PS5.

I am not sure why so many reviews say that they were unable to remove the heatsink, all you have to use it a card and pop off one side at a time. The performance is great! I have it paired with a MSI PRESTIGE X570 CREATION and a AMD 3950X. As of now I only have one and use it for my OS drive, video production, and virtual machines. This is pretty much overkill for gaming. For a way better value, you are better off using a SATA based SSD with 3D Nand Flash for gaming but to each their own. My only complaint is that I wish there was a 4TB option as I use a lot of storage for virtual machines and video production. I will definitely be picking up a second one to put into my MSI PRESTIGE X570 CREATION motherboard but am only holding off for now to wait for a potential 4TB variant.