Yesterday, January 5, MSI officially unveiled its new PCIe 5.0 SSDs to the world at CES 2023. In total, two models were presented – Spatium M570 and Spatium M570 Pro. Naturally, the more interesting drive is the Spatium M570 Pro SSD – this model is built on Micron’s 232-layer 3D NAND flash memory and runs on the latest Phison M26 memory controller. Thanks to this, MSI’s flagship drive demonstrated simply prohibitive data transfer speed – up to 12 GB / s for writing and reading.
The most important thing is that these are real numbers, and not just promises from a press release – the manufacturer assembled a test bench based on the MSI X670E Carbon motherboard and the Ryzen 9 7950X processor right at CES 2023, launching CrystalDisk Mark at the event visitors. As a result, the drive showed a sequential read speed of 12324 MB / s and a sequential write of 11814 MB / s. Flagship drives operating on the PCIe 4.0 interface currently demonstrate speeds of 7000 MB / s, so the increase is actually impressive – almost twice.
True, it is worth noting right away that for the test bench, the manufacturer used a 2 TB Spatium M570 Pro drive, while in the case of 1 TB, the speed may be slightly lower. In addition, the company said that there will also be a 5TB drive in the lineup, which is quite unusual. And in order for the SSD not to overheat at such a data transfer rate, MSI had to invent a very complex heatsink that would allow squeezing the maximum out of the new product without throttling even under prolonged loads. So far, however, no one has conducted any real stress tests, so this remains to be tested.
However, the base Spatium M570 also deserves attention, although it has a slightly lower data transfer rate – this SSD uses the same latest memory controller, but the memory is represented by TLC chips (it is slightly slower than 3D NAND). Accordingly, this drive will provide a read and write speed of 10 GB / s, which is also quite good – it is still noticeably faster than PCIe 4.0 drives.
Unfortunately, MSI is not yet ready to name prices for the latest drives, although company representatives have promised that both SSDs will go on sale in the second quarter of this year.
Source: Trash Box
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