In this video, we review MSI’s 5th Generation NVMe SSDs, Spatium 570 Pro and 580. Huge coolers, controllers and NANDs used, synthetic and real world performances, all the details are in the video.
MSI NVMe SSDs are distinguished by two series, the first of which is the Classic series consisting of Gen 3 NVMe SSDs with speeds around 3GB/s and Gen 4 NVMe SSDs with speeds around 7GB/s, and the other is the same with Gen 3, Gen 4 SSDs as well as 14GB/s. Spatium series, which also includes Gen 5 NVMe SSDs that can reach speeds up to s. Spatium NVMe SSDs are also divided into ones with and without a cooler. The models subject to our video are Spatium M580 and M570 Pro Gen 5 NVMe SSDs.
Design, dimensions and cooling setup. You see MSI’s FROZR heatsink, and this is the first time I see such a massive solution in an SSD. It is a giant cooler for an NVMe SSD, 7CM tall and about 8CM wide, consisting of 36 fins connected to each other by 3 heat conduction pipes. The heat conduction pipes contact the SSD with a thermal pad. If the products were not to be returned, I would like to open it and show it, but I will not open it so as not to affect the original cooling performance, sorry guys.
An NVMe SSD without a cooler weighs about 10 grams, while these weigh about 140 grams, or 14 times as much. According to MSI’s claim, it can vary the operating temperature by up to 20 degrees.
Although they look huge compared to other M.2 NVMe SSDs, they are in the 2280 form. They use the PCIe Gen5x4 interface, there is a Phison E26 controller inside, it is reliable and actually the first Gen 5 SSD controller that approximately 15 brands use in their Gen5 SSDs. Both M580 and M570 Pro use Micron’s 232-layer 3D TLC chips. The samples we have are 2TB ones and they come with 4GB LPDDR4 DRAM. In fact, since there are competitors that are Gen 4 and come with MLC NANDs, I would like to see longer-lasting MLC NANDs on paper, instead of TLC, that is, NANDs that write 3 bits per cell, with MLC, that is, 2 bits written per cell. However, MSI, Crucial, Gigabyte, Corsair all use TLC in this generation, so at least for now, the norm for Gen 5 SSDs is 3D TLC NANDs.
Regarding warranty and lifespan, MSI gives a 5-year warranty and mentions a write life of 1400TBW, i.e. terabytes, for 2TB models. For daily use, such as surfing the internet, tracking e-mails, playing games, you don’t actually write 10GB to the SSD, but let’s say you write 767GB a day, that’s 23TB a month, 276TB a year, it will take you 5 years to reach the paper life with such a crazy usage, if you’re a little lucky. You can multiply the expected lifespan. 1.6 million MTBF, in more understandable language it is stated that it can operate without errors for up to 1.6 million hours. This is an extreme example, even if you shoot RAW with good cameras and produce content, it is still an extreme example, but the summary is this, it is a long-lasting SSD that you can move from system to system and use for years.
Both have 1TB/2TB and 4TB options, the M570 Pro can reach reading speeds of up to 12.4GB/second and write speeds of up to 11.8GB/second, while the M580 can read speeds of up to 14.6GB/second and write speeds of up to 12.7GB/second. They both consume around 11W, their consumption is higher than an NVMe SSD, but it doesn’t matter from this point of view, choosing SSDs with slightly lower consumption in the laptop will save you usage time, but you cannot install them on a laptop in this state anyway, they may not fit in a Mini ITX case either. This could be a decision changer.
Crystaldiskmark. Both M580 and M570 Pro did what they said on paper, you see sequential reading and writing results, but what really matters is how much performance they can perform when full. I repeated the tests at around 80% occupancy, on the M570 Pro the loss is only around 300MB/second in sequential reading, in the 4KB test the difference is noticeable when the percentage is calculated, but the general picture is very very good, to put it bluntly, it is like a flower.
AttoDiskBenchmark. When we look at the 4KB test, the M570 Pro was better by around 30-40MB/second, in general they were very similar from 512bytes to 64KB, and then the M580 carried the flag because its maximum reading and writing speed was higher.
Anvil’s Storage Utilities. It is a very old but still useful test, it works with a score system and actually makes it easier to compare with another product. Although the total score is very close, the M570 Pro is slightly better in terms of IOPS, that is, the number of input and output per second, especially in writing.
Likewise, you get a score in AS SSD Benchmark, you can compare it with this, and again in the 4KB 64-thread test, M570 Pro was ahead in writing, and access times are great.
When it comes to 3D Mark’s storage test, the M570 Pro achieved better results in both total score, bandwidth and especially access times in gaming tests. In summary, the M570 Pro is better at processing more granular file wholes, the M580 is faster in less granular workloads.
This is a real-world test, a real-life test, the file transfer test. I started a transfer of 8-9 chunks of about 1TB from the M570 Pro to the M580, which transferred about 500GB at 3.5GB/sec and then continued at around 2.1-2.5GB/sec. This time I applied the same test to the M570 Pro, I transferred the same set of files from the M580, starting with 3.7GB/second, the speed was reduced to around 3GB/second, but it offered a higher overall writing speed and the speed curve was more stable.
Thermal tests. This is where the massive cooler shines, the M570 Pro reached a maximum of 65 degrees in both the synthetic test and the real world test, while the M580 reached 73 degrees, which SSDs do not slow down until they reach 85 degrees.
However, passively achieving this operating temperature at these speeds comes with a price. A large cooling block is fine, but you need to remove your motherboard’s own cooling plate, which varies depending on the system, but can disrupt the design integrity around the motherboard and case.
MSI Spatium M580 and M570 Pro. They are the fastest NVMe SSDs I have personally tried, and if I were to collect a high-end, unlimited case today, they are the first M.2 form SSDs that would come to my mind. Well, if you were to ask which one you would prefer, I would prefer the M570 Pro. It is a little better in multi-threaded workloads and better in long-lasting writes. Which one would I buy when prices come into play? I would buy whichever is more convenient because most of the time you see minimal differences, they are both very good solutions for upper segment cases.
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