Corsair MP600 Micro M.2-2242 SSD Pictured

[btarunr]

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.



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[Ferrum Master]

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.

How about calling wasted PCB space a well thought out thermal design? Eh Corsair?

 

[QUANTUMPHYSICS]

I just find it so amazing that the longer I hold out, the better SSD, CPU, GPU and Motherboard pricing gets.

 

[Chaitanya]

Have seen few 13.3" and 14" laptops that have 2242 M.2 slot for SSD so good to see options from more reliable OEMs for users who would like to replace/upgrade their drives.

 

[RAINFIRE333]

Big Winner here and likely largest consumer here is the camera market for fast burstable storage during shooting, inside the camera.

 

[Ferrum Master]

Big Winner here and likely largest consumer here is the camera market for fast burstable storage during shooting, inside the camera.

And how? Even if you do CFx via risers or adapters, you won't unlock any additional high speed modes on most cameras, due to being proprietary and locked down. If the drive doesn't have signature, modes are locked.

 

[RAINFIRE333]

And how? Even if you do CFx via risers or adapters, you won't unlock any additional high speed modes on most cameras, due to being proprietary and locked down. If the drive doesn't have signature, modes are locked.

$$$ CFx over cheap SSD - you believe what you will. Most will choose the less expensive, faster newer option. P.S. The NVMe can be repurposed inside many device types. The CFx is mostly not used outside of cameras.

 

[bonehead123]

Good to see this form factor FINALLY getting utilized a little, however, as it stands ATM, this drive really doesn't add anything that isn't already available in 2230 drives..... but if they could somehow find room for some DRAM cache on the board, it would be a bigger hit with alot of folks

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....

 

[Ferrum Master]

$$$ CFx over cheap SSD - you believe what you will. Most will choose the less expensive, faster newer option. P.S. The NVMe can be repurposed inside many device types. The CFx is mostly not used outside of cameras.

I barely understand you as you don't make sense. I've tried your suggestions a year ago. They don't work and are dangerous.

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.

 

[Minus Infinity]

In what universe is micro bigger than mini! FFS can we have logical naming.

 

[Chrispy_]

2242 is very rare in my experience; I've seen them in two models ever across something like 75 different brands/model and in one case (Acer) it was just short for no reason (I replaced it with a 2280). The only time I ever saw a laptop with a 2242 slot and no room for larger was a 1st-gen Ryzen mobile (Lenovo 14ARR with a 2700U).

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.

 

[Prima.Vera]

I barely understand you as you don't make sense. I've tried your suggestions a year ago. They don't work and are dangerous.

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.

That's not entirely correct.
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

 

[Ferrum Master]

That's not entirely correct.
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

Even more rare examples? Can you state any professional using them? Those are still adapters?

 

[Mawkzin]

I can see the 2242 become the dram version of the 2230 ssds.

 

[RAINFIRE333]

I barely understand you as you don't make sense

Maybe this will help you, "Cards are Cheating the System". P.S. I care. I value my $$$ and speed.

https://petapixel.com/2023/12/08/sony-photographers-need-to-be-careful-what-memory-cards-they-buy/

 

[Ferrum Master]

Maybe this will help you, "Cards are Cheating the System". P.S. I care. I value my $$$ and speed.

https://petapixel.com/2023/12/08/sony-photographers-need-to-be-careful-what-memory-cards-they-buy/

Help me?

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?

 

[RAINFIRE333]

you cannot use any nvme in your camera

I know this and and can't wait until higher speed and cheaper NVMe's are available in cameras. I also kind of feel we don't need to discuss this any further. CF express cards are still rip-offs for what they do.