Corsair MP600 PRO XT M.2 2280 2TB PCI-Express 4.0 x4 NVMe 1.4 3D TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) CSSD-F2000GBMP600PXT

Pros: - Large Capacity - Very Fast Read Speeds - Very fast Write Speeds - Looks Great - Heat sink appears removable

Overall Review: Fantastic drive that is very fast and looks great. Just make sure you have enough clearance for the large heat sink with your build! Crystal Disk Mark - 7297.89 MB/s READ vs 6633.31 Samsung 980 Pro - 6824.29 MB/s WRITE vs 4962.02 Samsung 980 Pro AS SSD - 5981.50 MB/s Read vs 4938.44 Samsung 980 Pro - 5798.70 MB/s Write vs 3760.21 Samsung 980 Pro

Pros: This is one of the fastest Gen4 SSDs on the market, even marginally faster than the highly rated and popular offerings from competitors, as it uses the Phison E18 controller and latest Micron Flash memory to outperform Corsairs previous MP600 Pro . Speeds were excellent and mostly performed as advertised advertised on an Asus Z670 Prime with an Intel i7-12700K CPU with DDR5 5600. As you can see in my screenshots, this SSD outperformed a very popular competitor from SK slightly in Seq reads but quite a lot in Seq Writes. It didnt quite hit the advertised write speeds but that may be due to my write caching settings. The build and feel is also significant, with an absolutely monstrous heat sink that cools better than the included one on the motherboard. Ideally you still this SSD in the single cooler slot, or if you use two, put it in the double slot as you will not be able to fit the stock cooler on top. Also, I had to remove the thermal pad on the bottom of the m.2 slot or the MP600 Pro XT would not fit.

Cons: Make sure you can fit this SSD in your system, bottom clearance is an issue too since there is a aluminum plate under the SSD also. You may not be able to fit this under your GPU so make sure your SSD spots are above your GPU or clear the heat sink. I dont think this would fit into consoles as the heat sink seems too tall. Also, this is a minor aesthetic issue but if you install the SSD with the gold fingers pointing right, the Corsair logo is upside down. Just a minor thing that wouldnt be too hard to fix.

Overall Review: Overall this is a great SSD from a company in Corsair that is committed to excelling at everything when it comes to PC gaming.

Pros: I built a whole new system just to utilize this bad boy. My old system supported 3.0 just fine, but I wanted this to run at its full speed hence thew build which also allowed me to upgrade everything. This paired with Intels newest 12th gen processors and the right motherboard and its a powerhouse workforce. Consistently hits the read and write speeds, allows my PC to fast boot in less than 10 seconds. The beefy stock cooler radiates the heat away and keeps the Temps down, it can also be removed carefully if your mobo has sufficient cooling for it.

Cons: Stock cooler can interfere with graphics card. Some motherboards have set 4.0 and 3.0 slots so moving to another slot may not be an option if one wants to utilize the full speed. This stock cooler also has a hefty weight to it which can cause issues depending how and where its mounted.

Overall Review: Overall I am super happy with this drive, it has allowed me to upgrade and get with the times of faster read and write speeds. One thing is I did remove the stock heat sink after running test, my motherboard is the Gigabyte Auorus AX and the stock cooler is plenty sufficient. Doing this allowed me to use the 4.0 slot to take full advantage of its speed

Pros: -One of the fastest consumer level SSDs out there at the moment. Significant upgrade (on paper) over my existing 970 Evo Plus. This SSD gets about 7000MB/s vs 3500MB/s read and 6800MB/s vs 3200MB/s write versus the 970 Evo Plus, which was a performance leader just a year or two ago. The price is also not that more expensive than much slower SSDs, so it is all in all a pretty good value. Make sure your mobo supports PCIe 4.0 to get the most out of it. -Excellent SSD cooling. Heatsink is noticeably heavy out of the box. However (see cons), it is quite thick and may cause clearance issues. -Nice looking, neutral design that will fit well into most builds. I personally am a fan of it's understated look and prefer that it doesn't suffer from RGB overload.

Cons: -Heatsink is hefty but quite thick (19-20mm). You may not be able to use it in every slot if there isn't enough clearance (for example, m.2 slot under GPU). -Gets quite warm. From looking at specs, this SSD will throttle over 68C so make sure it stays cooled below that. If your mobo has an integrated heatsink that isn't very hefty (for example, my Asrock one is just a metal plate), it may be better to not use it and leave the Corsair heatsink on.

Overall Review: -Corsair optionally provides their software, Corsair SSD Toolbox, which allows for some advanced options like drive status, secure erase, firmware update, overprovisioning. I usually prefer to just use standardized software like CrystalDiskMark, however the one useful feature to have is the FW update. The SSD didn't need one out of the box, but FW can dramatically improve performance, so it's a good idea to check once in a while. -At this level, SSDs have gotten so fast that you may not notice a major difference even if the performance numbers look a lot higher. For example, even though the performance is double that of my old 970 Evo Plus, it doesn't make that much of a noticeable difference in loading games. IMO, if you are building a budget PC, get a lower end SSD and spend the money on GPU. If you have a mid-high range PC, then this might be worth the premium over other SSDs.

Pros: This SSD is extremely fast, even compared to my Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe drive. It runs at an average of 42*C and I never got it over 54*C even under heavy load using CPUID HWMonitor. The installed heatsink is apparently effective, because the Samsung is about 8*C hotter. I used two different SSD benchmarking software and got the following results: AS SSD: Sequential Read 6227 MB/s Sequential Write 5288 MB/s CrystalDiskMark: Sequential Read 7302 MB/s Sequential Write 5828 MB/s These numbers utterly destroy the Gen 3 Pcie Samsung 970 Evo which scored 3285 MB/s read and 2657 MB/s! I transferred a 6gb Mpeg file from the Corsair to the Samsung and it transferred in under 3 seconds...it didn't even give me a transfer rate it was so fast.

Cons: I can come up with nothing negative to say about this drive.

Overall Review: I've been really impressed with this drive and it has had absolutely no issues at all. I've attached pictures of the benchmarking scores and it's installation on my motherboard. I would definitely recommend this drive, it is extremely impressive. Just to give an idea of my system that it's installed in: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-core CPU Gigabyte X570 Aorus Elite Motherboard 48gb Corsair DDR4-3600 RGB Memory ASUS ROG Strix RTX 3060 12GB DDR6