Corsair MP600 Pro PCIe 4.0 SSD Leaks With Intoxicating 7 Gbps Data Rates
It appears that Corsair is trying to up its game in the SSD space soon with a Pro-level successor to the current Corsair MP600 SSD. The Corsair MP600 Pro leaked on Amazon yesterday and boasts a whopping 7,000MB/S (7GB/s) read and 6,850 MB/s (6.85GB/s) write speeds. This sort of performance would put Corsair in the same ballpark as, if not beating out, competitors such as Samsung or Sabrent.
Thanks to keen-eyed momomo_us on Twitter, we get to see the Corsair 1TB MP600 Pro on the German Amazon website. According to the listing, the high-performance SSD uses a x4 PCIe 4 NVME M.2 interface, which allows the read and write speeds marketed. Inside, the SSD uses “high-density 3D TLC NAND,” which keeps prices relatively low and performance high. Corsair will also be packing this M.2 SSD with an aluminum heat spreader for better sustained performance, though with respect to endurance, the listing notes a vague "guaranteed for up to 3,600TB" of some sort of usage.
CORSAIR MP600 PRO Gen4 CSSD-F1000GBMP600PRO https://t.co/vegefWwL6y
— 188号 (@momomo_us) January 22, 2021
> A PCIe Gen4 x4 controller delivers up to 7,000MB / sec sequential read and 6,850MB / sec sequential write speeds for read, write and response times

Overall, this Corsair SSD should be pretty impressive once it launches, but it will all come down to the price. We found a website with the 1TB version supposedly listed at ~ $310, but that seems a little high. In comparison, the new Samsung 980 Pro 1TB model is only $229, but it is a little slower than the Corsair SSD too. Samsung also has a 500GB model of the 980 Pro (which is on sale right now on Amazon), which is nice to have as a cheaper option. Ultimately, whenever Corsair ends up releasing this new PCIe 4 NVMe SSD, it is nice to see competition driving storage technology forward in the marketplace, especially with the zippy Corsair MP600 Pro SSD.