Corsair MP600 GS 2TB SSD 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 Sequential and 4K performance as well as the drive’s capacity. The rear of the box has multilingual information about the drive's performance. There is also a small window that allows you to see part of the drive.

The 2TB MP600 GS is built on a single-sided M.2 2280 format.

Under the product label on the front of the drive sits the Phison PS5021-E21T controller along with four 512GB packages of Micron 176-layer 3D TLC NAND.  Designed for DRAM-less operation, Phison's  PS5021-E21T is a 4-channel controller built on a 12nm process using single-CPU architecture (built-in ARM Cortex-R5). It supports both TLC and QLC NAND with a transfer rate of up to 1600MT/s and has a capacity limit of 4TB. Data reliability is provided by Phison's 4th generation LDPC ECC along with End-To-End Data Path Protection and ‧Smart ECC 2.0. 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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