Corsair MP600 Mini 1 TB

W1zzard · Nov 24, 2023

Tailor-made for the Valve Steam Deck and similar portable devices, the Corsair MP600 Mini SSD offers a generous storage capacity to accommodate your gaming library. Unlike many alternatives, the MP600 Mini uses TLC NAND flash, which outpaces the speed of QLC options offered by competing products.

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Solaris17 · Nov 24, 2023

Oh nice. I have had one of these in a box for a 2023 dev kit. looking forward to using it when my display cable comes in.

chrcoluk · Nov 24, 2023

Feel good I poked @W1zzard's interest in this drive, so at time of review the QLC drives are same price. This is a beast in sustained writes as well nice.

Chaitanya · Nov 25, 2023

Are you planning for review of seagate Firecuda 520N? It seems to a TLC based 2230 drive with 2TB capacity available.

Space Lynx · Nov 25, 2023

edit: ignore the below post, the WD SN770N 2tb 2230 just went on sale for 159 at best buy, i just got one for my Deck OLED, yolo

@W1zzard I am looking for a 2tb 2230 drive for my Deck OLED, do you know if dram cache has any benefit at all to SteamOS functionality?

So far I have 3 contenders I am considering buying:

Firecuda 520n 2tb

Sabrent Rocket 2tb

and this third one from teamgroup

I can't decide between the three, but the Teamgroup is 50 dollars cheaper than the other two. but this is a LONG term purchase for me, as I have every intention of moving it over to the Deck 2 someday.

any advice is welcome. I don't think this Corsair one is the one I want to go with, if I am going drop 200 on the 2tb corsair model I think i'd rather do the firecuda which I think has dram cache for the same price.

W1zzard · Nov 25, 2023

Chaitanya said:
Are you planning for review of seagate Firecuda 520N? It seems to a TLC based 2230 drive with 2TB capacity available.

No plans for any Seagate reviews, they have been ghosting me for years. Seems they want to focus on reviews that test only three standard benchmarks and highlight sequential performance

Space Lynx said:
do you know if dram cache has any benefit at all to SteamOS functionality?

There is no M.2 2230 drive with DRAM cache, which makes this question irrelevant

Cheeseball · Nov 25, 2023

W1zzard said:
No plans for any Seagate reviews, they have been ghosting me for years. Seems they want to focus on reviews that test only three standard benchmarks and highlight sequential performance

There is no M.2 2230 drive with DRAM cache, which makes this question irrelevant

It's because they can't fit the extra IC for the DRAM itself yet, right? Please correct me if I'm wrong.

W1zzard · Nov 25, 2023

Cheeseball said:
It's because they can't fit the extra IC for the DRAM itself yet, right? Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Yup

Cheeseball · Nov 25, 2023

W1zzard said:
Yup

Yeah, this is why I'm not really complaining that these 2230 drives are not TLC since physically they can't fit the better parts on them yet.

But they are good enough for our handhelds! It's not like I'm doing video editing and need a cache drive on the Legion Go or ROG Ally.

Space Lynx · Nov 25, 2023

Cheeseball said:
Yeah, this is why I'm not really complaining that these 2230 drives are not TLC since physically they can't fit the better parts on them yet.

But they are good enough for our handhelds! It's not like I'm doing video editing and need a cache drive on the Legion Go or ROG Ally.

I'm still glad I got the SN770N, it is TLC I believe, and should last longer at least, and I mean for it to last a very long time, as I will be putting it in Deck 2 and 3, etc. Gen5 nvme will never go to handhelds, too much heat for no gains on a handheld, so I see a gen4 2tb drive a long worthwhile investment.

bonehead123 · Nov 25, 2023

Space Lynx said:
I'm still glad I got the SN770N, it is TLC I believe, and should last longer at least, and I mean for it to last a very long time, as I will be putting it in Deck 2 and 3, etc. Gen5 nvme will never go to handhelds, too much heat for no gains on a handheld, so I see a gen4 2tb drive a long worthwhile investment.

IMHO, you really can't go wrong with any drive from WD.....congrats on your purchase !

I've been using them in personal & client builds for several years, neveranottaproblemo

Granted 99.5% of them were the 2280 models, but just sayin...

I'm not saying that other drives are bad per se, but I've had more better luck with WD than any other mfgr, starting way back with their 7200 Raptor & 10k Velociraptor spinners, which were the 1st ones I owned...

Lianna · Nov 27, 2023

@W1zzard
'The drive is also compatible with other systems requiring the use of an M.2 2242 SSD.'
Well, kind of. Apparently, Legion Go requires 2242 but it does not have the screw for 2230, so 12mm screwed-in 'extender' PCB (say, 2230-to-2242 adapter PCB) is required before you can screw the SSD down.

CyberCT · Nov 27, 2023

It would be nice to see a comparison of these drives' loading times, game install times, etc in an actual Steam Deck ... seeing how this is marketed as being made with the Steam Deck in mind. I also wonder how much of a difference TLC vs QLC drives make with the Steam Deck.

jpvalverde85 · Nov 28, 2023

I wonder how much of that PCIe 4.0 performance the Steam Deck can grasp given the PCIe 3.0 speed.

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