Corsair MP600 Core Mini SSD Review

1. Introduction2. Corsair MP600 Core Mini 1TB3. Testing Methodology4. CrystalDiskMark5. ATTO Disk Benchmark6. AS SSD7. 128KB Sequential Performance8. 4K Random Read v QD Performance9. 4K Random Write v QD Performance10. 4K 70/30 Mixed Performance11. 4K Random Performance QD1-QD812. Throughput13. PCMark 10 Full System Drive Benchmark14. 3DMark Storage Benchmark 15. Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker Official Benchmark16. Temperatures17. Real Life File Testing18. Closing Thoughts19. View All Pages

CrystalDiskMark is a useful benchmark to measure the theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSDs. We are using v8.0.

Although its read score of 65.25MB/s sees the drive in the bottom section of the default CrystalDiskMark 8 4K T1 QD1 test results chart, its write score of 258.46MB/s is the third fastest we've seen to date for a 1TB class consumer Gen 4 drive.

As you can see from the benchmark results screen we can confirm the official maximum Sequential read/write speeds of 5,000MB/s and 3,800MB/s respectively with a read test result of 5,137.99MB/s and 3,947.65MB/s for writes using the default test. Switching over to using compressible data sees the Sequential performance rocket up to 7,361MB/s for reads with writes at 5,626MB/s. The random 4K QD1 T1 read performance gets a very healthy kick up too, but writes see no improvement.

Those Sequential read/write result figures of 5,137MB/s and 3,947MB respectively puts the Corsair MP600 Core Mini in a mid-table position.

Peak Performance Profile

Using the default Peak Performance profile we could confirm and even better quite a bit the official 4K random read performance figures for the drive of up to 650,000 IOPS with a test result of 711,473 IOPS. On the other hand, we couldn't get close to the official write maximum of 900,000 IOPS, as the best test result we saw was 611,705 IOPS.

Switching over to CrystalDiskMark 8's Peak Performance profile we could once again confirm the official Sequential ratings for the drive.

Real World Profile

The Corsair MP600 Core Mini doesn't do too well in the Real World profile test. With Sequential read/write scores of 3,000B/s and 3,892MB/s respectively the drive sits near the bottom of the results chart.

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