Posted on Wednesday, June 19 2019 @ 11:38 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
It's not just the AMD X570-based motherboards that are quite expensive, it seems the first PCI Express 4.0 products like the
Corsair MP600 also carry premium pricing. TechPowerUp
reports that based on early listings in price comparision search engines, the 1TB edition of the MP600 will cost 249EUR (0.24EUR per GB), and the 2TB version 449EUR (0.22EUR per GB). That's quite a bit more than what's charged for PCI Express 3.0 SSDs:
To put these prices into perspective, the 960 GB variant of Corsair's current flagship SSD, the MP510, is priced at 160€, and its 1920 GB variant at 320€. Stateside, the Intel 660p 1 TB PCIe 3.0 x4 M.2 NVMe drive is priced at $99.99 on Newegg, although it isn't generally counted as a premium SSD. Its 2 TB variant is priced at $192 on the same site. Nearly all client-segment PCIe gen 4.0 SSDs launched so far are built around the new Phison PS5016-E16 controller.
The Corsair MP600 promises read speeds of up to 4950MB/s and write speeds of up to 4250MB/s.
