Corsair MP600 Pro XT 2TB SSD Review

1. Introduction2. Corsair MP600 PRO XT3. 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. Performance Stability15. Drive Temperatures16. Real Life File Testing17. Closing Thoughts18. View All Pages

CrystalDiskMark is a useful benchmark to measure theoretical performance levels of hard drives and SSD’s.

The Corsair MP600 Pro XT didn't seem to handle the QD32 T1 CrystalDiskMark test that well, the tested figures being slightly lower than the previous Corsair MP600 Pro. However, we could confirm the official Sequential performance figures of up to 7,100MB/s and 6,800MB/s for reads and writes respectively with best test result figures of 7.324.6MB/s for reads and 6,861.1MB/s for writes, using the benchmark at default settings.

Using CrystalDiskMark 8 we again confirm the official Sequential figures with the best test results of 7,396.19MB/s for reads and 6,879.57MB/s for writes.

The best tested random 4K figures in CDM8 for the drive were 663,971.68 IOPS for reads and 597,184.33 IOPs for writes, both figures nowhere near the official maximums of 1m IOPS for reads and 1.2M IOPS for writes.

Looking at all the CrystalDiskMark results screens we can see that the Phison E18 controller that the MP600 Pro XT uses is much more efficient when reading compressible sequential and 4K data at certain queue depths.

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