Corsair MP600 GS 2 TB

[W1zzard]

The Corsair MP600 GS is a value-optimized M.2 NVMe SSD built using Phison's new E21 controller. Thanks to the E21, temperatures are low and there's no thermal throttling, despite the lack of a heatsink. In our testing we also found that the sustained write rate is very high, better than most competing drives.

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[mechtech]

I was looking at getting a 2TB Corsair MP600 LPX but price went up here in Canada so got a Kingston KC3000 for $50 less. Nice though if the E21 controller runs cooler than the E18. One thing to be aware of is how performance drops with lower capacity drives. I wish that would be big and bold and upfront.

 

[W1zzard]

Kingston KC3000

fantastic choice

 

[Chrispy_]

Why is everything Corsair do outside of PSUs and cases always low value? The hardware's not special and their European support is meh at best. I cannot see why the price is always so high for what you're getting.

 

[mechtech]

fantastic choice

Find out when I get it. It’s on tour somewhere in the mail lol

 

[Chaitanya]

Would like to see power consumptiom test added to SSD reviews, which will be useful for selecting drives for laptops.

 

[W1zzard]

Would like to see power consumptiom test added to SSD reviews, which will be useful for selecting drives for laptops.

I already have the test equipment here (quarch), but haven't figure out what exactly to test. Any requests?

 

[Chrispy_]

I already have the test equipment here (quarch), but haven't figure out what exactly to test. Any requests?

Oh, neat.

I feel like SSD power use isn't that important when the laptop is actively using the CPU or GPU to any degree, because those are far higher TDP parts. The difference between a 2W and 7W SSD isn't a deal-breaker if the GPU and CPU are pulling 10-20x more than that 5W difference.

I feel like SSD power use only matters when you have low-load situations, as this is what can have a dramatic impact on battery life - Based on my Kill-a-Watt testing, a small laptop will use (PFC-corrected) ~15W just web-browsing and a little under 25W playing back streaming video. That includes the screen backlight and fans, so an SSD with poor idle/background power draw can have a significant impact on runtime.

If it were me, I'd test once to see if there's any power draw for garbage-collection etc during S1 sleep, then again at Windows desktop maybe average it over 5 minutes of typical background disk activity, and then maybe once again streaming YT/Netflix or similar as watching shows or movies is where people often hit the limits of their battery life.

 

[W1zzard]

if there's any power draw for garbage-collection

There must be or it's a POS drive. Making this repeatable and measurable is very difficult though

once again streaming YT/Netflix or similar

Per definition of "streaming" this will have no significant disk activity. You can confirm with disk monitor.

 

[Chrispy_]

There must be or it's a POS drive. Making this repeatable and measurable is very difficult though


Per definition of "streaming" this will have no significant disk activity. You can confirm with disk monitor.

Yeah, repeatability is going to be the problem for sure.

I picked streaming as an example not for disk activity reasons, but as an example where the disk is idle and the laptop is awake in a low-load state - basically a measure of OS background service fettling etc. Again, not a guarantee of repeatability.

Perhaps a 1% disk utilisation synthetic test is an adequate facsimile of "OS idle" for power-draw measurements?

 

[Chaitanya]

I already have the test equipment here (quarch), but haven't figure out what exactly to test. Any requests?

Would love to see power consumption under sustained load(video encoding/export under Premier or Lightroom photo export).

 

[MachineLearning]

I already have the test equipment here (quarch), but haven't figure out what exactly to test. Any requests?

100% read, 100% write, 50/50% mixed I/O (all high & low queue depth), idle with PM enabled & disabled? Maybe power consumption in low power states as well. Although, this is a lot of additional work.

 

[Adegon79]

Considering I just bought a 2 TB SK Hynix P41 for $169, the current pricing of this seems a bit higher than it should be. Also absolutely love and appreciate these reviews with all of the data saved from the other drives they have done reviews on. It's an invaluable resource.

 

[GabrielLP14]

great job on the review, i was just hoping for a little better performance for this config (E21T + B47R)