CORSAIR MP600 PRO XT 2 TB NVMe SSD Review – Faster than the MSI SPATIUM M480?

1 - Einführung, Unboxing, Technik und Daten 2 - Controller, NAND und der dynamische pSLC Cache 3 - Synthetische Benchmarks 4 - Anwendungsbenchmarks und Zusammenfassung

Synthetics are a great way to really break out the big numbers once in a while. We’ll see later how well that works in real-world application benchmarks. So I’ll start with CrystalDiskMark and four different file sizes. The SSDs were not new at the time of the test (CB had already tested them and I always do these tests at the end for certain reasons) and I also had fill levels of more than 50% before deleting the data several times.

What’s good is that the maximum values are still safely reached even after two tests by different editors and that the numbers are quite impressive. Therefore, the formulation with the “up to” is also quite correct here. However, it is also a fact that the read rates in particular are significantly higher than those of the MSI SSD (up to 300 MB/s more!) and the write rates are more or less the same and thus also correspond to the specs. Corsair has obviously optimized the firmware more than MSI, the rest is done by the newer flash memory from Micron.

You can see very well that the dynamic pSLC does exactly what it is supposed to, mind you with an empty (though not virgin) SSD. The nice thing about the 2 TB SSD is that there is a lot of space left and therefore you should never fill it more than 2/3 with data. A higher workload does not affect reading, only when writing the dynamic SLC will certainly reach its limits at some point. And if you do it over and over again, switching memory modules between the two methods will eventually become impossible as well.

ATTO works very similarly, although I only work with two sizes here, which ends up being the same. The limit of 7000 MB/s for reading is just missed, but it is still enough for an impressive result.

But what happens when you stream a video? For this purpose, the industry uses the AJA benchmark, which is in effect an interface between synthetic benchmarks and practical application. The Corsair MP600 PRO XT doesn’t fluff here either, even though it already deviates a bit from the theoretical write and read rates and the MSI Spatium M480 even acts a bit faster. Let’s first look at the writing process of the encoded video content.

Reading is also quite fast, although you won’t reach the theoretically possible speed here either. In return, the MP600 PRO XT is a bit faster than the MSI SPATIUM M480, even if only marginally.

We see that the comments made on the previous page about the dynamic pSLC cache and the behavior with the larger file blocks are completely true. Smaller file movements would be even faster if you leave out the overhead of the file system.