Corsair MP600 Pro Gen4 2TB Review

Conclusion

Whenever people are looking to buy a new drive the factors usually come down to capacity and speed. We look at our budget and then decide what the biggest, fastest drive we can afford is. That’s a large reason why manufacturers use the headline grabbing sequential speeds to advertise their drives.

Certainly if absolute pace is the only thing you care about then the Corsair MP600 Pro will keep you satisfied, assuming you have a PCI Express 4.0 setup available to make the most of it. Any time a drive can pass the magical 7 GB/s marker it has to make you sit up and take notice, and the Phison E18 controller is rightfully finding itself at the heart of a lot of the fastest drives we’ve reviewed.

However, dig a little deeper and the MP600 Pro shines even brighter. Away from the Sequential read and write tests which give those flashy headline numbers, the MP600 Pro is hugely impressive in the smaller block sizes too. No matter what your intended use it is more common to be writing lots of small files than one big one. This is particularly true if you’re using the Corsair as an OS drive, with all the background elements that shuffle data around constantly. You only need to look at your system tray or task manager to know how much is going on even when you’re idle on the desktop, and the high IOPS (Input/output Operations Per Second) of the newest addition to the Corsair range shines here.

Where we think it scores over the Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus – the most recent Phison E18 drive we’ve reviewed – is in the consistency of that performance over lengthy writes. The supplied heatsink keeps the temperatures below 80°C even when the drive is being stressed to the limits, and whilst the Sabrent dropped to 77MB/s when its cache was flooded and the drive full, the Corsair MP600 Pro kept rocking along at over 1GB/s.

For the consistency of the performance in more real world usage scenarios the Corsair MP600 Pro Gen4 2TB wins our OC3D Performance Award.

The 2TB model has an MSRP of £404.99.

  

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