Pros: Impressive beefy heat sink ensures excellent heat dissipation and looks great! Machines that utilize the speed of this drive with your OS installed will increase your boot rate times along with loading programs/games more quickly. For testing I cloned my OS over to this drive and it definitely increased my overall speeds compared to my previous drive! The PCIe Gen 4 NVMe standard doubles the speed compared to previous versions of PCIe Gen 3 NVMe. Just make sure your board supports it if you want to get the full speed out of this drive. The Corsair MP600 PRO XT is backwards compatible with PCIe Gen 3.0 NVMe but will only give you half the rated speed. So, if you are still running a motherboard with PCIe Gen 3.0 NVMe and need to upgrade your current storage this drive will work fine and can be swapped over when you upgrade to a newer mother board. Verified by testing on a spare Gen 3 machine. If your motherboard has integrated M.2 NVMe heat-sinks that are removable and you are confident in your boards cooling capacity you can remove the preinstalled heat sink and install the drive utilizing your boards existing M.2 heat sink. Corsair provides a link on their product information page with detailed instructions for how to remove the preinstalled heat sink. Which they state will not void your warranty unless the components are damaged!

Cons: Some boards with multiple M.2 2280 slots may not be able to use the preinstalled heat sink if the GPU is directly over one of the slots. But this is easily remedied by moving the drive to another free slot.

Overall Review: An excellent choice and good price if you have a newer board that fully supports PCIe 4.0x4 NVMe! 5-year warranty! Current Firmware is EIFM31.4 out of the box no update was needed when checked with Corsair SSD toolbox at the time of my install.

Pros: I fairly recently upgraded my main PC and added a 1TB WD Black SN850, so I have a great comparison point. Using CrystalDiskMark on the corsair MP600 I was able achieve read speeds of about 7,300 MB/s and write speeds of 5,900 MB/s, see attached file. Alternatively, I was able to achieve speeds of about 7,000 MB/s and write speeds of about 5,700 MB/s on the SN850. So a measurable performance difference. In terms of my workload, not something Id notice. For the few motherboards that dont have heatsinks for the m.2 slot the included one works great and looks good. For those that have heatsinks that are integral to the motherboard the heatsink comes off pretty easy. I was able to take it off without any tools.

Cons: Honestly the only con would be the included heatsink, which most motherboards no longer require, and the perceived price increase because of it. The price of the drive was pretty spot on with similarly performing drives regardless of heatsinks.

Overall Review: Overall this is a fantastic M2 SSD, for the price its competitive, especially when its on sale. I honestly wouldnt overthink if it will fit with the heatsink or not. Its easy to take off and the drive stays cool even with the included motherboard style ones.

Pros: The Corsair MP600 Pro XT M.2 2280 1TB SSD comes in a simple box and is well protected. I've attached the benchmark stats based on 3DMark running on a ASUS Prime System board and an Intel core i9-10900X processor. This disk was installed on one of the onboard direct M.2 slots when tested. The Corsair MP600 Pro scored a 2789 under the 3DMark benchmark. Below are the other two SSD's I have in my system for comparison. Samsung SSD 860 Evo 1TB scored 1085 Intel SSDPEKNW010T9 1TB scored 2290.

Cons: This may be a con for users installing in a confined space. The heat sink on this Corsair MP600 is considerable at around 1/2" tall. I know quite a few devices this simply would not fit inside of. I don't think its worth docking an egg for. The heat sink will do a great job at dissipating heat if that is your goal. At least your going in with your eyes open rather than being surprised by it.

Overall Review: Overall I think this is a great M.2 SSD and I would recommend it for users who have space to install it.