Now let’s move on to a direct comparison with another 2TB SSD that gets well over 3000MB/s read and write, but uses PCIe Gen3. The following benchmarks namely show very astonishing things, where the MSI SPATIUM 480 on the one hand is miles ahead (as expected) and on the other hand is hardly faster. However, it is never slower, only the differences are then no longer so extreme.
When writing, programs like Ansys Icepak benefit enormously, there the rate is almost twice as high. Reading, on the other hand, is almost a tie. 3dsm benefits the most here, even tripling the write performance.
Reading is very similar, with exceptions like IcePak, the performance boost is usually extreme, but not quite as extreme as the advantage in writing. So the dynamic pSLC cache works after all. At least as long as the NAND technically allows it. When reading, the cache is rather irrelevant.
Yes, the performance has also increased significantly in applications, but you really have to consider whether you really feel it subjectively and whether it really increases the productivity in the individual case so that the surcharge is also worth it. If you can answer it with yes, you will surely do everything right with such an SSD.
Summary and conclusion
If we leave the price out of it, which will surely be adjusted after the actual market availability (that’s why it’s not an explicit buy tip, since you can’t buy it yet), then the MSI SPATIUM M480 is actually exactly what is technically still feasible for the end user at the moment with normal effort. There are already a few examples in this performance class from the likes of Samsung or WD, but here MSI has summoned up the courage to have the Micron design pattern customised. That is exactly what has really succeeded.
One can recommend such an SSD to all those who are on the hunt for the last ounce of performance and for whom the 5-year warranty by MSI takes away a bit of doubt about how long the controller and the Micron NAND can cope with the switch from pSLC and TLC mode without loss. It is no secret that this is also due to the interaction of controller and flash memory. It’s just that Micron hasn’t been doing this since yesterday.
Great product, painful price and as always, the last bit of performance is always the most expensive. If you want to be beautiful, you have to suffer.
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