Corsair MP600 PRO LPX 2TB | PS5-ready SSD review
On PS5, for example, the available storage space is of 825GB and even if Sony has worked to ensure that the data compression system is excellent (with performance 50% better than Xbox Series X), it must still be admitted that in the long run it may not be enough to install the amount of titles coming soon, some of them close to a hundred GB in size (see Gran Turismo 7).
For this reason external SSDs produced by third-party companies come to our rescue, as in the case of the Corsair MP600 PRO LPX from 2TB, recently tested by us on PS5. Unlike its competitor, in fact, Sony allows storage expansion through the installation of M.2 PCIe compatible SSDs; a method that guarantees lower costs (albeit slightly) and performance in line with the internal one of the console, which we remember having a speed of 5.5GB / s (Raw) and Typical 8-9GB / s (Compressed).
Installation
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Once the cover has been removed, you will immediately notice a small metal plate closed with a screw with the PlayStation symbols (Triangle, Circle , Square, Cross), easily removed with a medium-sized Phillips screwdriver. Once the cover has been removed, the SSD can be easily installed by applying it with a slight pressure to the left and fixing it with the small screw inside the compartment.
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Performance
We tested the SSD in a number of ways, both for launching PS5 games and for moving data from internal storage to our Corsair MP600 PRO LPX. Before showing you how our tests went, we leave you a summary table of the technical specifications.Capacity 2 TB Form Factor M.2 2280 Interface / Protocol NVMe PCIe Gen4 x4 Controller Phison PS5018-E18 DRAM Cache 2048MB Read sequential 7100 MB / s Sequential write 6800 MB / s Random read 1M IOPS Random write 1.2M IOPS Resistance 1400 TBW For the tested titles we focused on Assassin's Creed Valhalla (currently one of the games that takes longer to start on PS5) and on some exclusives, in detail: Demon's Souls, Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart, God of War and Kena. Ubisoft's experience benefited from the new SSD, managing to save about 4 seconds of time compared to the internal one, touching 51.4 seconds compared to the standard 55.02. The same thing goes for Ratchet & Clank and Demon's Souls, albeit with less seconds (or thousandths) savings. Kena and God of War instead found data on par between the two SSDs, an extremely positive result considering the already high speed of the PS5 internal SSD.
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In the first case , we tried moving the 80GB from our Corsair MP600 PRO LPX to the PS5's internal SSD. In total, the time taken was almost 6 minutes (5 minutes and 58 seconds, to be precise), a good figure, but not super optimal. By carrying out one of our classic tests with DiskBench, in which we read a file of over 50GB present on the SSD, we recorded an average speed of 3592.3 MB / s; this means that, probably, the "slowness" found here is more related to the writing speed of the internal SSD, than to the reading speed of the Corsair MP600 PRO LPX.
Secondly we focused on moving the same data from the internal storage space to the “external” one, managing to detect a maximum time of almost 2 minutes (1 minute and 58 seconds). Much faster. but well contextualized with what are the characteristics of the internal SSD of PlayStation 5.
Beyond the two timing related to the movement of data, the performance of the two SSDs are equivalent, indeed in some cases the Corsair MP600 PRO LPX even manages to prevail, a not insignificant detail, considering the already extraordinary performance of the PS5's internal SSD.
