Introduction

MSI is a world-leading gaming hardware manufacturer that is mostly famous for their graphics cards, motherboards, and laptops. In addition to these, MSI also offers monitors, peripherals, cases, and power supplies. With such a complete lineup, it's not surprising that MSI entered the SSD market a few years ago.


I've reviewed several PCIe Gen 5 SSDs in the last months, they are all based on the Phison E26 controller, which is the only design in mass production at this time. The MSI Spatium M570 Pro uses the E26, too, and is rated for 12 GB/s transfer speeds, thanks to its Micron 232-layer NAND flash, which ticks at 2000 MT/s. On the first Gen 5 SSDs, Micron 1600 MT/s flash was used, resulting in a maximum performance of 10 GB/s on those drives. While some vendors are bundling active-cooled thermal solutions with their Gen 5 SSDs, MSI is including a huge heatsink—that is passively cooled. This avoids several shortcomings of fan-cooled SSDs, like additional fan noise and the wiring mess due to the cabling. As expected for a high-end drive, a DRAM cache chip is included, too.

The MSI Spatium M570 Pro is available in capacities of 1 TB (TBD), 2 TB ($300) and 4 TB (TBD). Endurance for these models is set to 700 TBW, 1400 TBW and 3000 TBW, respectively. MSI includes a five-year warranty with the M570 Pro SSD.