Corsair has released its new MP400 Gen3 PCIe x4 NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive and it is the first Corsair SSD to feature the QLC NAND technology. QLC NAND technology helps the Corsair MP 400 Gen 3 NVMe SSD tale advantage of lightning-fast transfer speeds of up to 3,400MB/sec sequential read and 3,000MB/sec sequential write.
The Corsair MP400 Gen3 PCIe x4 features the M.2 2280 size which is the industry standard for NVMe SSDs. This standard allows users to quickly insert the SSD in the motherboard without any hassles. The MP400 boasts wide-ranging compatibility and high-bandwidth performance with the use of 3D QLC NAND technology.
QLC brings with it several advantages as well as disadvantages when compared with older 3-bit Tri-Level Cell NAND (TLC) technology. The biggest advantage of QLC is that it more dense cells. With more bits per cell, QLC flash does two things. It enables higher capacities than ever before, and going hand-in-hand with the first is a lower cost per bit of storage.
QLC also had its disadvantage with the biggest one being the lower speed of QLC NAND. QLC is slower because it takes longer to program (higher latency) than a lower bit count flash. It typically takes more power to program as well.
But even with QLC NAND, the MP400 has transfer speeds of up to 3,400MB/sec sequential read and 3,000MB/sec sequential write, which considering the Gen3 PCIe x4 specification, are very good. he MTBF (mean time before failure) of this drive is 1,800,000 hours which is quite solid and ensures that this drive will last you quite a long time.
Currently, the Corsair MP400 Gen3 PCIe x4 comes in capacities of 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, and will soon be available in an 8TB model. The price for the 1TB variant is 129.99 USD, 254.99 USD for the 2TB, 584.99 USD for the 4TB, and 1,349.99 for the 8TB which will be available later on.
