Saturday, December 9th 2023
Corsair MP600 Micro M.2-2242 SSD Pictured
Corsair unveiled the MP600 Micro, an M.2 NVMe SSD in the M.2-2242 (42 mm long) form-factor, which is slightly larger than the MP600 Mini M.2-2230 drive that's designed for handhelds, and almost half the length of a regular MP600 series M.2-2280 drive. Corsair mentions that the drive should benefit devices such as the Legion Go handheld, although nearly all PCs, notebooks, and handhelds that have an M.2-2280 slot support mounting for M.2-2242. This drive could hint at an emerging trend for DRAMless drives that end up with wasted PCB space in the M.2-2280 form-factor.
The MP600 Micro takes advantage of PCI-Express 4.0 x4 host interface, offering sequential transfer rates of up to 5100 MB/s reads, with up to 4300 MB/s writes. The company also claims up to 600,000 IOPS QD32 random reads, and up to 890,000 IOPS QD32 random writes, as measured with IOmeter. The drive comes with a 1 TB capacity, is rated for 600 TBW endurance, and combines a Phison E21 series controller with Micron 176-layer 3D TLC NAND flash memory. We are seeing a $70 street price for the drive on Amazon.
The MP600 Micro takes advantage of PCI-Express 4.0 x4 host interface, offering sequential transfer rates of up to 5100 MB/s reads, with up to 4300 MB/s writes. The company also claims up to 600,000 IOPS QD32 random reads, and up to 890,000 IOPS QD32 random writes, as measured with IOmeter. The drive comes with a 1 TB capacity, is rated for 600 TBW endurance, and combines a Phison E21 series controller with Micron 176-layer 3D TLC NAND flash memory. We are seeing a $70 street price for the drive on Amazon.
16 Comments on Corsair MP600 Micro M.2-2242 SSD Pictured
And $70 for 1TB isn't really nothing to get excited about, as many 1TB/2280 drives are only a few $$ moar and offer faster speeds....
But I will try again to explain why your statement is flawed. You are talking about CFx B adapters, those are for 2230 usually, there are external adapters for any sized nvme drive like for small rig configuration even for CFx A, yes.
Camera manufacturers are not dumb, they white list compatible cards and the desired modes for fast storage mediums are grayed out if it ain't a white listed card. Other than that you can use any other data medium. There are manufacturers, like Nikon, who does not white or blacklist these adapters, as these nvme drives aren't designed for linear bursts, basically these drives must be SLC, if not they ran out of cache and you ruin all your video footage. No bloody sane video maker person will risk doing that. Writing 8K60P high bitrate RAW will turn bananas any of our mainstream crap SSDs. Or change the math for like 4K120P or other proportion resulting the same large data streams. You will not risk a whole set of involved people in the filmmaking, because you cheaped out on the storage.
The main point really - who cares for all those people owning camera systems costing two times more than RTX4090? Eh? It is like a spit in the bucket.
Contrary to others liking the small critter, I would be more happy to see cheaper 4-8TB 22110 sized nvme drives, most boards can utilize them too.
2230 is what many of the portable devices and several subnotebooks need. 2242 is the unloved middle-child that's too big for most devices that can't fit 2280s and a needless compromise for devices that can.
My first example that comms to my mind are the RED Raptor or Komoda cameras that can shoot 8K@120FPS or 4K@240FPS, and guess what, they are using standard SATA SSD Drives. Some Sony cameras are also using SSDs for storage too. etc
petapixel.com/2023/12/08/sony-photographers-need-to-be-careful-what-memory-cards-they-buy/
This is for you to understand, that you cannot use any nvme in your camera, as they are not designed for it, this article tries to explain it. I say it simply it needs to be SLC or MLC with very very large SLC mode cache. There is no other way. You simply cannot use those drives for high data rates as nothing in PC realm compares to that. You simply risk destroying all your created video footage. Who needs that?