A Drive Head And Shoulders above the competition, literally
MSI’s Spatium M580 is a Phison-based PCIe 5.0 SSD with Micron 232-layer 3D TLC NAND, 30% SLC cache and 8GB DDR4-4266 cache, all of which are passively cooled. As you can see from the picture, passively cooling such a powerful SSD is a challenge. The cooler with its three heatpipes is essentially as tall as the NVMe drive is long, so it’s not going to fit into the NVMe port hidden under your GPU. However, if you can match it, TechPowerUp’s testing showed no evidence of thermal throttling, even after over 10 minutes of continuous recording.
Most impressive is how they managed to keep the Spatium M580 writing for 10 minutes, seeing 12,556 MB/s sequential writes on CDM, not to mention over 14,000 MB/s sequential reads. This is a speed that is only matched by some of the SSD competitors and they win by a fairly small percentage. When it finally goes on sale, you should expect a similar price to competitors like the Crucial T705, just over $500 for the 4TB model.
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