Corsair MP600 Elite with Heatsink 2TB Review

The drive comes in a compact box with a clear image of the drive on the front. Under the image is a strip label with performance figures for the Sequential performance as well as the drive’s capacity. The rear of the box has multilingual information about the drive's performance.

The 2TB MP600 Elite with Heatsink is built on a single-sided M.2 2280 format.

The heatsink version comes with a two-piece cooler comprising a cradle to hold the drive and the deeply grooved aluminium heatsink itself. Four tiny screws join the two parts together. The heatsink adds 2mm to the width, 7mm to the height and 25g to the weight of the standard MP600 Elite.

Under the heatsink sits the Phison PS5027-E27T controller controller along with two 1TB packages of Kioxia BiCS6 162-layer TLC NAND.  Designed for DRAM-less operation, Phison's PS5027-E27T is a 4-channel controller built on a 12nm TSMC process. It uses single-CPU architecture (built-in ARM 32-bit Cortex-R5) and supports up to 8TB of both TLC or QLC NAND (Toggle 5.0 and ONFi 5.0 compliant) with transfer rates of up to 3600MT/s. Data reliability is provided by Phison's 5th generation LDPC ECC along with End-To-End Data Path Protection. It also supports AES 256-bit Encryption.

Corsair’s SSD management utility is called SSD Toolbox. It's not the funkiest-looking GUI we've ever seen and could do with a bit of a refresh, but having said that it does provide all you really need to keep an eye on the drive. It provides drive information and S.M.A.R.T details and also supports firmware updates, secure wiping of the drive, drive optimisation and incorporates a disk cloning utility.

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