MSI Spatium M570 Pro Frozr 2 TB Review 23

MSI Spatium M570 Pro Frozr 2 TB Review

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Packaging

Package Front
Package Back


The Drive

SSD Front
SSD Back

The drive is designed for the M.2 2280 form factor, which makes it 22 mm wide and 80 mm long.

SSD Interface Connector

PCI-Express 5.0 x4 is used as the host interface to the rest of the system, which doubles the theoretical bandwidth compared to PCIe 4.0 x4.

SSD Teardown PCB Front
SSD Teardown PCB Back

On the PCB you'll find the controller and four flash chips, a single DRAM cache chip is included, too.


MSI's cooler is a big and impressive design that comes with three heatpipes.


Once we took the unit apart, you can see how they integrated the heatpipes in the cooler. Four screws on the sides ensure that contact is always strong, even after prolonged use.


Pretty big, but it fits!

Chip Component Analysis

SSD Controller

The Phison PS5026-E26 is Phison's first PCI-Express 5.0 controller. It is the company's current flagship with support for eight flash channels and NVMe 2.0, using an Arm Cortex design. The controller itself is fabricated using a 12 nanometer process at TSMC Taiwan.

SSD Flash Chips

The four flash chips are Micron 232-layer 3D TLC NAND. Each chip has a capacity of 512 GB.

SSD DRAM Chip

One Hynix DDR4-4266 chip provides a total of 4 GB of fast DRAM storage for the controller to store the mapping tables.
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