Corsair MP600 Pro XT PCIe 4.0 SSD Expands to 8TB Capacity

Corsair has quietly added an 8TB SSD model to its MP600 Pro XT family of premium PCIe 4.0 drives and started their sales in Europe, perhaps months before the company begins sales of its next-generation MP700 SSDs with a PCIe 5.0 interface. The new drives offer a massive capacity, but their performance is slightly lower when compared to other SSDs from this family.

Corsair's MP600 Pro XT M.2-2280 drives are the company's flagship storage products based on Phison's PS5018-E18 controller and Micron's 176-layer 3D TLC NAND memory. So far, Corsair has offered its MP600 Pro XT drives in 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB configurations, but this week German retailer Proshop.de began to offer 8TB versions of these devices, reports ComputerBase.de.

Corsair's new 8TB MP600 Pro XT SSDs are rated for an up to 7,100 MB/s sequential read speed, an up to 6,100 MB/sequential write speed as well as 1.2 million/950 thousand random read/write IOPS (see detailed specifications in comparison to other drives in the lineup below). While the highest-capacity SSDs are typically slightly slower compared to mid-range capacity configurations, Corsair's MP600 Pro XT 8TB will still be one of the best SSDs available with a PCIe 4.0 x4 interface.

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Product	1TB	2TB	4TB	8TB
Non-HS Pricing	$199.99	$399.99	$989.99	?
HS Pricing	N/A	$424.99	$999.99	?
Capacity (User / Raw)	1000GB / 1024GB	2000GB / 2048GB	4000GB / 4096GB	8000GB / 8096GB
Form Factor	M.2 2280	M.2 2280	M.2 2280	M.2 2280
Interface / Protocol	PCIe 4.0 x4 / NVMe 1.4	PCIe 4.0 x4 / NVMe 1.4	PCIe 4.0 x4 / NVMe 1.4	PCIe 4.0 x4 / NVMe 1.4
Controller	Phison PS5018-E18	Phison PS5018-E18	Phison PS5018-E18	Phison PS5018-E18
DRAM	DDR4	DDR4	DDR4	DDR4
Memory	Micron 176L TLC	Micron 176L TLC	Micron 176L TLC	Micron 176L TLC
Sequential Read	7,100 MBps	7,100 MBps	7,100 MBps	7,100 MBps
Sequential Write	5,800 MBps	6,800 MBps	6,800 MBps	6,100 MBps
Random Read	900,000 IOPS	1,000,000 IOPS	1,000,000 IOPS	950,000 IOPS
Random Write	1,200,000 IOPS	1,200,000 IOPS	1,200,000 IOPS	1,200,000 IOPS
Security	AES 256-bit encryption	AES 256-bit encryption	AES 256-bit encryption	AES 256-bit encryption
Endurance (TBW)	700 TB	1,400 TB	3,000 TB	6,000 TB
Part Number	CSSD-F1000GBMP600PXT	CSSD-F2000GBMP600PXT	CSSD-F4000GBMP600PXT	CSSD-F8000GBMP600PXT
Warranty	5-Years	5-Years	5-Years	5-Years

For enthusiasts who already have a machine with a PCIe 5.0 x4-supporting M.2 slot or those who wait for AMD's Ryzen 7000-series or Intel's 13th Gen Core 'Raptor Lake' platforms with PCIe Gen5 support, the dilemma is whether to buy a high-capacity PCIe Gen4 SSD now or wait for upcoming drives with a PCIe 5.0 interface. Unfortunately, there is no correct answer for this question as we do not know when exactly Corsair and other vendors release their PCIe Gen5 drives, especially those not constrained with a 10GBps read speed.

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Anton Shilov is a contributing writer at Tom’s Hardware. Over the past couple of decades, he has covered everything from CPUs and GPUs to supercomputers and from modern process technologies and latest fab tools to high-tech industry trends.

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Alvar "Miles" Udell

This is the problem with SSDs today. It's not speed or endurance, it's the fact that 4TB and 8TB drives have such a gigantic price premium...
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USAFRet

Alvar Miles Udell said:
This is the problem with SSDs today. It's not speed or endurance, it's the fact that 4TB and 8TB drives have such a gigantic price premium...
The majority of people I know would be hard pressed to fill up a 2TB.

"SSDs today" is exactly the same as it was with "HDDs then..."

What was the very first hard drive you bought, not included in a prebuilt PC?

Mine was a 125MB, for about $140.
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kanewolf

USAFRet said:
The majority of people I know would be hard pressed to fill up a 2TB.

"SSDs today" is exactly the same as it was with "HDDs then..."

What was the very first hard drive you bought, not included in a prebuilt PC?

Mine was a 125MB, for about $140.
ST-225 -- 20MB for $200 including controller card.
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USAFRet

kanewolf said:
ST-225 -- 20MB for $200 including controller card.
The first one I used was a 10MB, in the XT compatible my dad gave me.
And then...Stacker to make it 20MB. But even more distubingly slow...lol
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Makaveli

USAFRet said:
The majority of people I know would be hard pressed to fill up a 2TB.

"SSDs today" is exactly the same as it was with "HDDs then..."

What was the very first hard drive you bought, not included in a prebuilt PC?

Mine was a 125MB, for about $140.

it doesn't sound like that majority are actually IT people.

80% of the people I know that have IT careers will have no problem filling that drive :)
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USAFRet

Makaveli said:
it doesn't sound like that majority are actually IT people.

80% of the people I know that have IT careers will have no problem filling that drive :)
And the people in IT careers are a small percentage of the population....:)
All the geeks at work could easily make use if that.

I'm just saying...a 4TB NVMe drive is applicable to a very small percentage of people. Currently.
This will change, along with prices.

Just a few short years ago, a 1TB SATA III SSD was $200.
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Makaveli

USAFRet said:
And the people in IT careers are a small percentage of the population....:)
All the geeks at work could easily make use if that.

I'm just saying...a 4TB NVMe drive is applicable to a very small percentage of people. Currently.
This will change, along with prices.

Just a few short years ago, a 1TB SATA III SSD was $200.

True.

i'm at the point now with all the Sony Ported games coming out to PC that my 1TBx2 Raid 0 Sata setup is only at 500GB free space now which won't last long with a few more games. So i'm going to have to add more SSD's to my rig just for game storage. I won't add a 2nd m2 drive until Direct X storage is out and they have released firmware optimized drives.
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USAFRet

Makaveli said:
True.

i'm at the point now with all the Sony Ported games coming out to PC that my 1TBx2 Raid 0 Sata setup is only at 500GB free space now which won't last long with a few more games. So i'm going to have to add more SSD's to my rig just for game storage. I won't add a 2nd m2 drive until Direct X storage is out and they have released firmware optimized drives.
My current main system has 6x 1TB SSD.
No RAID 0 involved or wanted.

Windows and applications have gotten so much better over the last few years, that combining 2 or more drives into a RAID 0 simply for the 'size' doesn't make a lot of sense.

And, apart from benchmark numbers and tiny edge cases, the theoretical speed benefit of a RAID 0 is totally lost on SSD.
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Makaveli

USAFRet said:
My current main system has 6x 1TB SSD.
No RAID 0 involved or wanted.

Windows and applications have gotten so much better over the last few years, that combining 2 or more drives into a RAID 0 simply for the 'size' doesn't make a lot of sense.

And, apart from benchmark numbers and tiny edge cases, the theoretical speed benefit of a RAID 0 is totally lost on SSD.

The reason i went RAID 0 on that is I wanted a single storage pool for the games. And since its only games on there not concerned with a RAID failure and no issues since the raid was created in dec 2019.

The sequential access increase is nice but not really noticed in my usage of it. Other than the time I copy large files to that storage.

Windows and all my apps are on the PCIe 4 SSD in the system. When I did this build I decided no HDD were ever going to be in it so I have a NAS on the network with those for mass storage.
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tamalero

USAFRet said:
The majority of people I know would be hard pressed to fill up a 2TB.

"SSDs today" is exactly the same as it was with "HDDs then..."

What was the very first hard drive you bought, not included in a prebuilt PC?

Mine was a 125MB, for about $140.
You answered yourself, people who bu these aren't "majority of people" It would be heavy users, powerful users, gamers.
Not to mention that games continue to expand in data weight by a lot every year.
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