Corsair’s PS5-ready M.2 SSD is fast and relatively inexpensive
Corsair has launched a new line of PCIe 4.0 M.2 2280 SSDs made with PS5 compatibility in mind. The MP600 Pro LPX is now available in four capacities: 500GB, 1TB, 2TB, and a big 4TB drive. Each of these drives comes with an elegant heatsink pre-installed, making it easy to know that it’ll have thermal protection, whether you put it in a PS5 or your PC.
The other key details come down to price and speed, and in both categories, Corsair is aiming to deliver a better value than Samsung does with the slightly slower, slightly pricier 980 Pro that also comes with its own heatsink. You can get Corsair’s 500GB model for $99.99, and the 1TB model isn’t too much more at $169.99. The 2TB SSD is $339.99, and the price gets a little wild with the 4TB SSD. It will cost $784.99. Each SSD comes with a five-year warranty.
Across the board, the MP600 Pro LPX claims to deliver a sequential read speed of up to 7,100MB/s and a sequential write speed of up to 6,800MB/s (sequential write speeds vary depending on the capacity, going down to 5,800MB/s in the 1TB model and 3,700MB/s in the 500GB model). For the sake of comparison, Samsung’s competing 980 Pro can deliver a sequential read speed of 7,000MB/s, while sequential write speeds top out at 5,100MB/s regardless of the storage capacity.
Compared to Sony’s built-in PS5 storage, Corsair says that its new SSDs shave off a second (sometimes more, sometimes less) for game startup times.
It’s important to note that Sony’s storage requirements for the PS5 only call for an SSD with a sequential read speed that’s faster than 5,500MB/s — a metric that this model, and many others, can easily surpass. And yet, some of the slowest PCIe 4.0 drives we could find delivered comparable loading times as
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