Corsair MP600 Pro LPX 2 TB

AlwaysHope · Feb 2, 2022

Again, like in previous reviews of M.2 NVME drives, I see very little difference in game load times between PCIe3 & 4 versions. I mean it's about 1-2 secs at most across the market irrespective of the game engine.
Not worth the upgrade imo if your on PCIe3 M.2 drive storage already. Better of saving the money for next gen graphics cards or some other worth your $ upgrade.

Wooden Law - Black · Feb 2, 2022

mama said:
How does it compare to the original (non Pro) MP600? Any improvement?

Yes, the MP600 is using an obsolete and worse controller (E16, the first Gen4 controller launched) and also older flash (96L).

blanarahul said:
To simplify it, you're saying that if a controller can do a maximum of 300 units/sec write speed in SLC mode, it will be able to do a maximum of 100 units/sec write speed in TLC mode?

Well, a SSD will always be better in SLC mode than TLC.

Chomiq · Feb 2, 2022

AlwaysHope said:
Again, like in previous reviews of M.2 NVME drives, I see very little difference in game load times between PCIe3 & 4 versions. I mean it's about 1-2 secs at most across the market irrespective of the game engine.
Not worth the upgrade imo if your on PCIe3 M.2 drive storage already. Better of saving the money for next gen graphics cards or some other worth your $ upgrade.

I believe gaming wise it only matters if you're a PS5 user and you keep a LOT of games on your drive.

We could use a $/s avg loading times, that would really show if it's worth the extra buck for the gamer.

W1zzard · Feb 2, 2022

Chomiq said:
We could use a $/s avg loading times, that would really show if it's worth the extra buck for the gamer.

It doesn't make financial sense, but if you're building a high-end gaming rig and have the money, might as well go for the SSD with the best load times

jesdals · Feb 2, 2022

W1zzard said:
Because it's what was released at the time I setup this test suite. It shouldn't make any difference.

For 2022 the plan is to update my tests, and will also use new hardware of course. Still waiting for DirectStorage to come out, so I can design one or two tests around that

I was concerned with lack of proper PCIe 4 support with that cpu

W1zzard · Feb 2, 2022

jesdals said:
lack of proper PCIe 4 support

Tell me more. I've tested like dozens of PCIe 4 SSDs on that systems without any noticeable issues

AKBrian · Feb 2, 2022

mama said:
How does it compare to the original (non Pro) MP600? Any improvement?

You can compare the drive with the Gigabyte Aorus Gen4 2TB in the result graphs. Both the original MP600 and Aorus Gen4 are based on what is effectively the same reference Phison E16 / Toshiba 96L TLC platform. Their firmwares can even be cross flashed. The MP600 Pro LPX does offer quicker performance (especially in sequential), but for day to day usage the gap narrows.

AlwaysHope · Feb 3, 2022

W1zzard said:
It doesn't make financial sense, but if you're building a high-end gaming rig and have the money, might as well go for the SSD with the best load times

Of course, by all means!

Chomiq said:
I believe gaming wise it only matters if you're a PS5 user and you keep a LOT of games on your drive.

We could use a $/s avg loading times, that would really show if it's worth the extra buck for the gamer.

But the drive is marketed for PC users as well.

Mussels · Feb 3, 2022

My god, i just kept looking for the QVO drive as the "bulk" SSD, and wow seeing it so ridiculously far behind NVME drives is insane

AKBrian · Feb 3, 2022

Mussels said:
My god, i just kept looking for the QVO drive as the "bulk" SSD, and wow seeing it so ridiculously far behind NVME drives is insane

To be fair, the QVO is behind many other SATA drives as well, and was at launch. Also see the Crucial BX500.

fb020997 · Feb 3, 2022

W1zzard said:
It doesn't make financial sense, but if you're building a high-end gaming rig and have the money, might as well go for the SSD with the best load times

That’s exactly what I did when I upgraded my PC last May. As I sold the old parts for a really good price, why not spending that extra 50€ for an NVMe 4.0 drive (SN850 in my case)?

Cutechri · Feb 3, 2022

Meanwhile me running my 980 Pro on PCIe 3.0 lol.

W1zzard · Feb 3, 2022

Cutechri said:
Meanwhile me running my 980 Pro on PCIe 3.0 lol.

Great choice. You'll benefit immensely from the much better random IO performance. Losing some GB/s in sequential isn't a big deal for nearly all scenarios. We're running WD Black SN850s on 3.0 in some of our web servers

Cutechri · Feb 3, 2022

W1zzard said:
Great choice. You'll benefit immensely from the much better random IO performance. Losing some GB/s in sequential isn't a big deal for nearly all scenarios. We're running WD Black SN850s on 3.0 in some of our web servers

Wait really? I did it just to free up the CPU-bound PCIe 4.0 slot for a future DirectStorage drive since this one is a boot drive...

trsttte · Feb 3, 2022

Cutechri said:
Wait really? I did it just to free up the CPU-bound PCIe 4.0 slot for a future DirectStorage drive since this one is a boot drive...

So you're running a pcie 4.0 ssd on a 3.0 slot with a 4.0 slot available?

You're wasting performance for a future possible eventual upgrade, makes no sense to me. When direct storage eventually comes, and you buy a new game drive like you mention you can move things if you want.

Cutechri · Feb 3, 2022

trsttte said:
So you're running a pcie 4.0 ssd on a 3.0 slot with a 4.0 slot available?

You're wasting performance for a future possible eventual upgrade, makes no sense to me. When direct storage eventually comes, and you buy a new game drive like you mention you can move things if you want.

Read above, apparently it's not such a bad plan for random I/O, and comparing benchmarks now vs back when I got the drive when it was still on PCIe 4.0, that seems to be true. I rarely need 7 GB/s sequential.

The only reason I have this drive was because it was cheaper than the 970 Evo Plus alternative at the time.

I can easily just get another 2 TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe when DirectStorage is relevant and keep this on 3.0 as a boot drive.

What performance am I wasting? Again, real world performance literally has not changed after moving this drive from 4.0 to 3.0 apart from random I/O which actually improved.

trsttte · Feb 3, 2022

Cutechri said:
Read above, apparently it's not such a bad plan for random I/O, and comparing benchmarks now vs back when I got the drive when it was still on PCIe 4.0, that seems to be true. I rarely need 7 GB/s sequential.

The only reason I have this drive was because it was cheaper than the 970 Evo Plus alternative at the time.

I can easily just get another 2 TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe when DirectStorage is relevant and keep this on 3.0 as a boot drive.

What performance am I wasting? Again, real world performance literally has not changed after moving this drive from 4.0 to 3.0 apart from random I/O which actually improved.

I know you're still seing benefits but for me it simply doesn't make sense to have a faster interface available and use the slower one because of a possible future upgrade (whenever you upgrade, just switch them around lol)

Not to mention chipset/cpu overhead depending on the board/cpu you have (don't what components you have but you probably connecting through the chipset instead of directly to the cpu).

But hey, whatever, you do you!

Cutechri · Feb 3, 2022

trsttte said:
I know you're still seing benefits but for me it simply doesn't make sense to have a faster interface available and use the slower one because of a possible future upgrade (whenever you upgrade, just switch them around lol)

Not to mention chipset/cpu overhead depending on the board/cpu you have (don't what components you have but you probably connecting through the chipset instead of directly to the cpu).

But hey, whatever, you do you!

I just explained why it makes perfect sense but okay, I wasn't planning to buy a 4.0 drive when I got this 980 Pro to begin with. My DirectStorage drive will be 4.0, pointless switching them around.

Deleted member 24505 · Feb 3, 2022

So when is directstorage due? I have a spare Gen 4 slot i could use.

W1zzard · Feb 4, 2022

DirectStorage doesn't require Gen 4 btw, it'll work on all NVMe drives. And you can bet game devs will make sure it works on lots of hardware, otherwise it's wasted developer time

Cutechri · Feb 4, 2022

W1zzard said:
DirectStorage doesn't require Gen 4 btw, it'll work on all NVMe drives. And you can bet game devs will make sure it works on lots of hardware, otherwise it's wasted developer time

Yeah, knew that, but I might as well get a Gen 4 drive.

AusWolf · Mar 21, 2023

If this question finds an owner: does the drive fit into a secondary slot under a GPU?

trsttte · Mar 21, 2023

AusWolf said:
If this question finds an owner: does the drive fit into a secondary slot under a GPU?

It should, I don't have one of these but I have an WD SN750 with the original heatsink that doesn't seem all that different under a GPU without any issues

Mussels · Mar 22, 2023

W1zzard said:
DirectStorage doesn't require Gen 4 btw, it'll work on all NVMe drives

Oh w1zzard of the past (and any other users that end up here) this can be easily confirmed in the windows Xbox overlay these days, which you may not be aware of with your slimmed down/debloated test systems

Seems to require NVME on the MS driver, and not much else
One gen 4, two gen 3 drives here, two with partitions and two external SD cards

It doesnt seem to care if they're PCI-E 2.0 or on an x2 link either that i've seen, game devs might have a recommended speed but it seems MS isn't enforing any limits

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