The Corsair MP600 Pro XT PCIe Gen4 M.2 NVME SSD 4TB provides extreme storage performance using Gen4 PCIe technology to achieve unbelievably fast sequential read and write speeds of up to 7,100/6,800MB/s. It features an M.2 2280 form factor, built-in aluminium heatspreader that helps disperse heat and reduce throttling, high-density 3D TLC NAND technology, 3000TBW and 4TB capacity. [1]

Figure 1. Corsair MP600 Pro XT

Figure 1 shows the Corsair MP600 Pro XT is available in two flavors: one with a large (removable) heatsink, and the Hydro version with a liquid-cooling jacket. Corsair sent us the 2TB version of the former for testing. The plain MP600 Pro XT is available in 1TB/$200, 2TB/$400, and 4TB/$990 flavors. Add $25 for the water jacket in the 2TB capacity, and $10 in the 4TB capacity.

The MP600 Pro XT is warrantied for five years. That 1TB and 2TB capacities are rated for 700TBW (TeraBytes Written over the life of the drive) per 1TB of capacity, while the 4TB capacity is rated for 3000TBW. A nice little bonus on your thousand-dollar drive.[3]

Features

Corsair’s MP600 Pro XT is available in capacities of 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB with the air-cooling heatsink, but the watercooled Hydro X variants are only available at 2TB and 4TB capacities. As a result, prices come in at a premium ~$0.20-$0.25 per gigabyte. However, the MP600 Pro XT comes with all the performance you could ask for, justifying the price tag. Corsair rates the MP600 Pro XT to deliver up to 7.1/6.8 GBps of sequential read/write throughput and upwards of 1,000,000 / 1,200,000 random read/write IOPS when tasked with heavily-threaded workloads.

Corsair also backs the MP600 Pro XT with a solid warranty and above-average endurance ratings compared to Samsung, WD, and Crucial SSDs. For example, our 2TB sample can absorb up to 1,400 TB of writes over its five-year warranty, but the 4TB model is rated for up to 3,000 TB. With that kind of endurance, the MP600 Pro XT shouldn’t wear out from normal use.

The high endurance ratings are due in part to Phison’s SmartECC, which leverages RAID-like parity, and the company’s fourth-generation LDPC ECC that reconstructs defective pages when normal ECC fails. Other reliability features include SmartRefresh, which monitors the flash’s block ECC and periodically refreshes the blocks to maintain data retention over time, and SmartFlush, which helps ensure data retention in the event of a power loss by minimizing the time the data spends in the cache. [2]

References:

1. https://www.pccasegear.com/products/55544/corsair-mp600-pro-xt-pcie-gen4-m-2-nvme-ssd-4tb
2. https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/corsair-mp600-pro-xt-ssd-review-corsairs-best-just-leveled-up
3. https://www.pcworld.com/article/544102/corsair-mp600-pro-xt-nvme-ssd-review-top-dog-performance-wet-or-dry.html

Cite this article:

Thanusri swetha J (2021), Corsair MP600 Pro XT, pp. 39