Antec Inc., a leading provider of high-performance computer components and accessories for the gaming, PC upgrade and Do-It-Yourself market, presents the latest additions to their range of enclosures: the Antec NX500 and NX600. The cases are now commercially available from 64,95 € and 78,95 € (suggested retail price including VAT).

The NX500 mid-tower gaming case offers a great price-performance ratio and is packed with great features e.g. USB 3.0 support, excellent cooling capabilities and built-in LED controller. With support for up to a 360 mm liquid cooling radiator in front and a 240 radiator on top. The NX500 is easy to build with and measures 490 x 220 x 440 mm and has a unique asymmetric diagonally angled RGB-featured mesh in the front as well as a tempered glass panel. The NX500 supports up to six fans, 3x 120 mm or 140 mm in the front, two on the top and one in the rear of the case. One 120 mm ARGB fan is already included. The case fits motherboards of up to E-ATX size, two 3.5" HDD/2.5" SSD (convertible), two 2.5" SSD, graphics cards with a length of up to 350 mm as well as CPU coolers with a height of up to 165 mm.

Corsair rolled out the range-topping 1,600 GB variant of the Neutron NX500 PCI-Express SSD series, which made its debut in August 2017 (variant SKU: CSSD-N1600GBNX500). The drive is priced at 1,770€ (including taxes). The half-height, single-slot add-on card features PCI-Express 3.0 x4 bus interface, and takes advantage of the NVMe 1.2 protocol. The drives combine Phison PS5007-E7 controllers with Toshiba-made 15 nm MLC NAND flash memory.

It has a rated sequential performance of up to 3,000 MB/s reads, with up to 2,300 MB/s writes when tested with ATTO; up to 2,800 MB/s reads with up to 1,600 MB/s writes when tested with CrystalDiskMark; and random-access performance of up to 300,000 IOPS 4K reads, with up to 270,000 IOPS 4K writes, when tested with IOMeter. Its endurance is rated at 2,793 TBW, and is backed by a 5-year warranty.

Corsair has quietly added a new SSD to its portfolio which is currently available on Newegg. The new Neutron NX500 SSDs come in somewhat unusual 400 GB and 800 GB capacities, which likely means an overly increased over provisioning so as to ensure top endurance and performance. The Neutron NX500 SSDs come in the add-in NVMe card form factor, with a beefy heatsink to top it all up. That heatsink serves to cool not only the NAND chips, but also the Phison E7 controller that's lurking underneath.

Interestingly, and even though 3D TLC NAND is all the rage these days due to increased density on the same footprint, without bringing any serious, real-world problems related to endurance, as we've seen, the Neutron NX500 appears to pack MLC memory. Do you even remember that? That's part of the reason why performance is rated so high: there's 3,000 MB/s read, 2,400 MB/s writes, 300,000 IOPS in random read, and 270,000 IOPS on random write workloads. Though you will have to pay a pretty penny for this kind of performance: the 400 GB Corsair Neutron NX500 is currently retailing for $319.99, while the 800 GB version won't give you any benefits from the economy of scale: it retails for $699.99.