Corsair MP600 Pro

The high speeds and endurance rating are matched by an equally vertiginous price

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PRICE 2TB, £343 (£412 inc VAT) from pcpro.link/324mp6

READ SPEED 4,869MB/ SEC

WRITE SPEED 5,418MB/ SEC

Corsair’s MP600 Pro is a high-end NVMe SSD, with PCI Express Gen4 support promising the highest possible speeds. Unusually, it comes with a heatsink as standard to help it maintain those speeds even under heavy load, without the need for thermal throttling.

Our test results confirm that this is a fast drive, and more than a match for any Gen3 model. Yet by Gen4 standards its raw performance isn’t spectacular: in the AS SSD sequential read benchmark it was easily bested by competing drives from Samsung and Western Digital.

It did better in the sequential write test, achieving this month’s fastest sustained transfer rate. Even so, the overall balance holds this drive back from greatness. The PCMark 10 benchmark gave it a system disk score of 2,485 and a data disk score of 4,500 – far behind the 3,502 and 5,984 achieved by the WD Black SN850.

That might not be an issue if this were a mid-price drive, but it’s one of the most expensive SSDs here. The 1TB option is

£170 – equivalent to 18p per gigabyte – while the 2TB model we tested works out to 22p/GB. No doubt the heatsink adds to the manufacturing cost, but that’s academic if it doesn’t visibly benefit performance.

The MP600 Pro scores points for offering full-disk encryption, and it should last longer than most rivals, as the 1TB model is rated for an unusually generous 700TBW. If you’re more concerned with performance, however, the WD Black SN850 is a faster drive for the same money.