Monday, January 25th 2021
Corsair's Upcoming MP600 PRO Gen4 SSD Promises Speeds of 7 GB/s
The Corsair MP600 PRO Gen4 (CSSD-F1000GBMP600PRO) was recently spotted on Amazon Germany before being taken down. The MP600 PRO is the successors to Corsair's MP600 SSD featuring Phison's second-generation PCIe 4.0 PS5018-E18 SSD controller and boasting sequential read/write speeds of up to 7000 MB/s, and 6850 MB/s respectively. These are some very significant generational speed improvements over the already blazing fast advertised read/write speeds of the MP600 at 4950 MB/s and 4250 MB/s.
The drive is also listed as carrying a warranty of 3,600 TBW which is likely for the 2 TB model. These new second-generation PCIe 4.0 SSDs are nearing the limits of the PCIe 4.0 x4 interface which offers maximum speeds of ~8000 MB/s. It should also be noted that these performance improvements offer very limited practical benefits to the end-user in typical use-cases over a basic PCIe 3.0 NVMe drive. Pricing and availability for the drive were not published but we expect Corsair to officially announce the drive soon.
Sources:
@momomo_us, Amazon Germany, FCCID.IO
The drive is also listed as carrying a warranty of 3,600 TBW which is likely for the 2 TB model. These new second-generation PCIe 4.0 SSDs are nearing the limits of the PCIe 4.0 x4 interface which offers maximum speeds of ~8000 MB/s. It should also be noted that these performance improvements offer very limited practical benefits to the end-user in typical use-cases over a basic PCIe 3.0 NVMe drive. Pricing and availability for the drive were not published but we expect Corsair to officially announce the drive soon.
39 Comments on Corsair's Upcoming MP600 PRO Gen4 SSD Promises Speeds of 7 GB/s
Corsair MP600 Pro 1TB 1,400 TBW
Corsair MP600 at 2TB is also at 3,600 TBW
Corsair MP600 at 1TB is at 1,800 TBW
So a small reduction at 1TB but still better than the 600 TBW of the Samsung 980 Pro.
I think pricing is also up from when the MP600 was launched.
Drive looks good.
Google for 'MP600 1TB write speed slow'
Though i've seen this posted in the corsair forum where write speeds drops. Issue looks to be firmware related.
Max compressed for Ps5 is 9GB/s and Xbox Series X is 4.8 GB/s.
All of my games go to my Sata Raid 0 array but I also have room on my PCIe 4.0 drive so I can move and test games that will benefit from the I/O increase in speed.
I am starting to believe all of those were just empty promises. What really matters with SSDs is latency, which remains roughly the same whether it runs at 1 GB/s or 10GB/s.
We have spent the better part of the last 30 years dealing with slow storage and designing games to use them. Once Direct I/O is out from Ms for windows I would expect more games going that route.
Plus it will be very difficult for us to verify their claims without the right tools and direct access to the hardware. Only Sony & Ms + the game dev's will have that kinda of low level access.
Sony's PS5 has the best storage implementation, i'd expect that games released exclusively for this platform will be the first to showcase what it can truly achieve
Also, it's still very early days so give it time and do more research instead of anecdotally concluding the tech is bogus.
The 1TB drive has a 333GB SLC cache and these benchmarks aren't enough to saturate it.
forum.corsair.com/v3/showthread.php?t=189618
forum.corsair.com/v3/showthread.php?t=201391
It seems to be only for the 1TB versions. 2TB versions seem more aligned.
IOPS are translate better to real-world performance. Something just doesn't seem right with these. Unless Newegg is listing this stuff wrong?
Sabrent 1TB Rocket 4 PLUS NVMe 4.0 Gen4 PCIe M.2 Internal SSD Extreme Performance Solid State Drive (SB-RKT4P-1TB) - Newegg.com
Corsair MP600 Pro M.2 2280 1TB PCIe Gen 4.0 x4, NVMe 1.3 3D TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CSSD-F1000GBMP600PRO - Newegg.com
www.tweaktown.com/reviews/9698/sabrent-rocket-4-plus-1tb-2-nvme-ssd/index.html
None out for the MP600 Pro yet.
1TB to 2TB is nuts.