MSI Spatium M480 Play 2 TB Review 11

MSI Spatium M480 Play 2 TB Review

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MSI is a world-leading gaming hardware manufacturer that is mostly famous for their graphics cards, motherboards, and laptops. In addition to these, MSI also offers monitors, peripherals, cases, and power supplies. With such a complete lineup, it's not surprising that MSI has entered the SSD market last year.



We reviewed the original MSI Spatium M480 in August last year, and it left an excellent impression. Today, we have for review the MSI Spatium M480 Play, which is a slightly upgraded design featuring the same Phison E18 controller, PCI-Express 4.0 support, and DRAM cache. What's changed is that the NAND flash chips are now Micron's newest 176-layer 3D TLC; the original M480 used 96-layer Micron. The new flash chips offer slightly better performance overall and significantly improved write speeds. In order to improve compatibility with the Sony PlayStation 5, MSI improved their heatsink, which is now a bit more compact, yet still packs a punch to ensure there is no overheating.

The MSI Spatium M480 Play comes in capacities of 500 GB, 1 TB, 2 TB, and 4 TB. At this time, only the price for the 2 TB version in this review is known: $330. MSI includes a five-year warranty with the M480 Play.

Specifications: MSI Spatium M480 Play 2 TB SSD
Brand:MSI
Model:SPATIUM-M480-PCIe-4.0-NVMe-M.2-PLAY
Capacity:2000 GB (1863 GB usable)
48 GB additional overprovisioning
Controller:Phison PS5018-E18
Flash:Micron 176-Layer 3D TLC
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DRAM:2x 1 GB SKHynix DDR4-2666
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Endurance:1400 TBW
Form Factor:M.2 2280
Interface:PCIe Gen 4 x4, NVMe 1.4
Device ID:MSI M480 2TB
Firmware:EIFM31.4
Warranty:Five years
Price at Time
of Review:
$330 / $165 per TB
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