Corsair MP400 2TB SSD Review

The lastest drive to join Corsair's stable of NVMe M.2 drives is the MP400, the company's first drive to make use of 3D QLC NAND, in this case, 96-layer QLC NAND. The drive also drops the Corsair Force branding.

The new drive comes in four capacities starting at 1TB. It's not that long ago that a 1TB SSD would be the flagship model of a drive range but it just shows how fast the technology is moving that by using 3D QLC NAND, Corsair can offer this size drive as the entry-level model in a model range aimed at the consumer market space. The rest of the range consists of 2TB, 4TB and the soon to arrive mega 8TB flagship drive.

Officially the 2TB MP400 is rated as up to 3,480MB/s and 3,000MB/s for Sequential read and write respectively. When tested with the ATTO benchmark the review drive produced a read figure of 3,190MB/s with writes at 2,830MB/s, so both figures are shy of the official maximum. However, using our own Sequential tests we could confirm those official figures with a read score of 3,496.76MB/s and 3,010.18MB/s for writes.

As for random performance, Corsair rate the 2TB as up to 380,000 IOPS for reads and up to 560,000 IOPS for writes. Unfortunately with our standard 4-threaded random 4K tests, we couldn’t get anywhere near those official figures with 161,171 IOPS being the best read figure we could get, with writes at 271,327 IOPS both at a queue depth of 32. However, we did some quick 8-threaded testing at QD of 32 and got a read figure of 423,824 IOPS, bettering the official figure by some margin. The write figure of 493,280 IOPS on the other hand although much improved, was still short of the official figure.

Corsair’s SSD Toolbox management utility isn't as well featured or as fancy looking as some but it does provide drive information, S.M.A.R.T details and supports firmware updates, secure wiping of the drive, drive optimisation and disk cloning.

We found the 2TB Corsair MP400 on CCL Computers for £239.99 (inc VAT) HERE.

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Pros

• Sequential performance.
• Line-up is made up of large capacities.
• 5-year warranty.
• Pricing.

Cons

• Couldn’t match those official 4K Random figures with our standard tests.
• No hardware encryption support.

KitGuru says: By employing 3D QLC NAND technology in the MP400, Corsair is able to offer some very large capacity SSDs at attractive price points.

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