MSI Spatium M470 2Tb NVMe SSD review

Posted on December 12, 2022 by Raymond Chen

How fast is the MSI Spatium M470 2Tb and further specifications explore here.

MSI's 2Tb Spatium M470 SSD works on Phison PS5016-E16. This NVMe has DRAM DRAM SLC for mapping data, located on the drive. The Spatium M470 comes equipped with Kioxia 3D TLC flash memory. This drive besides, available in 1 Tb capacity.

Performance and benchmarks

This NVMe use PCIe M.2 4.0 x 4 interface with maximum write speeds 4400 Mbps, and read speeds 5000 Mbps. This model has input/output performance 600000 on reading and 600000 on writing operations.

Endurance and warranty

Specs

Category	Value
Capacity	2 Tb
Interface	M.2 4.0 x 4
Controller	Phison PS5016-E16
Memory type	Kioxia 3D TLC
DRAM	DRAM SLC
Read speed (Mb/s)	5000
Write speed (Mb/s)	4400
Read IOPS	600000
Write IOPS	600000
Endurance (TBW)	3300
MTBF (million hours)	n/a
Warranty (years)	n/a

Conclusion

MSI Spatium M470 2Tb may work on PCIe 4.0 that is significantly faster than previous bus standard. The write speed is 4400 Mbps, that is average value for this interface. The drive has endurance 3300 TBW, that is pretty good compared to nearest rivals. On balance, our editor highly advise to buy MSI Spatium M470 2Tb for your PC.

+ Pros

Good writing speed
PCIe 4.0
Capacity
Endurance

- Cons

None

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FAQ

The MSI Spatium M470 has DRAM SLC. DRAM makes drive work faster, but also more expensive.

The Spatium M470 2Tb due to the high density of memory chips requires installation of additional heat sink. It will reduce temperature of the memory chips and controller. Some motherboards or laptops designed with additional cooling below and above the storage to improve productivity during heavy loads.

The MSI Spatium M470 2Tb has sequential write speed 4400 Mb per second, sequential read speed 5000 Mb/s. Storage operate on Phison PS5016-E16 controller and M.2 4.0 x 4 interface standard. The memory type is Kioxia 3D TLC.