MSI Spatium M570 Pro 4 TB: Max Capacity, Bundled Gen5 Cooler (2026)
The MSI Spatium M570 Pro 4 TB FROZR is the largest capacity of MSI's earlier cooled PCIe 5.0 line, holding the family's peak 12,400 MB/s reads alongside 3,000 TBW of endurance.
Controller & Memory
The MSI Spatium M570 Pro 4 TB is the largest capacity of MSI's Spatium M570 Pro FROZR, a PCIe 5.0 NVMe drive announced in December 2023 and sold in 1 TB, 2 TB and 4 TB sizes. It is the predecessor to the newer Spatium M580 FROZR, and like the M580 every M570 Pro ships with MSI's FROZR cooler pre-installed in the box: a passive tower heatsink with no fan that makes the drive unusual among Gen5 models, which normally leave M.2 cooling to the buyer. The cooler is there because the hardware runs hot, as the Phison E26 controller and Micron NAND platform draw up to 11.5 watts under load.
Under the metal is an M.2 2280 drive built on the eight-channel Phison PS5026-E26 controller, Micron 3D TLC NAND and an LPDDR4 DRAM cache, the same platform used by the Crucial T700, Adata Legend 970 and Aorus Gen5 7000s. The 4 TB matches the 2 TB's flagship rating of 12,400 MB/s sequential read and 11,800 MB/s write, both well above the 1 TB's 11,700 and 9,500 MB/s, so buyers do not sacrifice peak speed for maximum capacity. Where the 4 TB pulls ahead is endurance and headroom: it carries 3,000 TBW against 1,400 TBW on the 2 TB and 700 TBW on the 1 TB, and its larger SLC cache holds sustained writes at full speed the longest of the three. The whole line shares a 5-year warranty, a 1.6 million hour MTBF and AES 256 with TCG Opal encryption.
The trade-off is physical, generational and financial. The FROZR tower cooler is tall and blocks adjacent M.2 slots on some motherboards, and club386 notes the drive will not fit a PlayStation 5 without manually removing the heatsink, so it suits a desktop build with a free, well-spaced PCIe 5.0 M.2 slot rather than a laptop or console. It is also an earlier Gen5 design that MSI has since superseded with the faster M580 FROZR, and the 4 TB carries a capacity premium. The 4 TB is justified when the space and the 3,000 TBW endurance actually matter: a large game and media library, a video-editing scratch disk, or a content-creator working drive. Direct rivals are the Crucial T700, Corsair MP700, Adata Legend 970 and Aorus Gen5 on the same Phison E26 platform.
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Spatium M570 Pro Performance & Benchmarks
The 4 TB MSI Spatium M570 Pro FROZR is rated at 12,400 MB/s sequential read and 11,800 MB/s sequential write over its PCIe 5.0 x4 interface. These are the flagship numbers of the M570 Pro line: the 4 TB matches the 2 TB at the top of the lineup rather than dropping to the 1 TB's lower speeds, so buyers get the maximum capacity without giving up peak bandwidth. Random performance is strong on the Phison E26 platform, rated around 1.5 million random IOPS.
MSI Spatium M570 Pro 4 TB vs M.2 5.0 peers
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- Corsair MP700 Pro XT 1 TB: 14,900 MB/s read, 14,200 MB/s write
- Corsair MP700 Pro XT 2 TB: 14,900 MB/s read, 14,500 MB/s write
- Corsair MP700 Pro XT 4 TB: 14,900 MB/s read, 14,400 MB/s write
- Crucial T710 1 TB: 14,900 MB/s read, 13,800 MB/s write
- MSI Spatium M570 Pro 4 TB (this drive): 12,400 MB/s read, 11,800 MB/s write
For real-world use, 12,400 MB/s is deep into PCIe 5.0 territory and comfortably beyond any PCIe 4.0 drive, so the bandwidth shows up in the workflows that actually saturate a Gen5 link: fast in-game asset streaming and DirectStorage titles, large file transfers, and OS responsiveness. Reviewers frame the M570 Pro FROZR as a fast, hot-running Phison E26 design that needs the bundled FROZR cooler to sustain its numbers, since the platform draws up to 11.5 watts and will throttle without adequate thermal management.
The 4 TB's particular strength is sustained writes. Like all TLC NVMe drives the M570 Pro writes into a fast SLC cache first, then drops to a lower direct-TLC rate once the cache fills, and the 4 TB carries the largest cache in the lineup. Under a long contiguous write such as a 4K or 8K video render it therefore holds full speed the longest before slowing to the direct-TLC rate, which is exactly the workload that justifies a 4 TB Gen5 drive over the cheaper 2 TB.
MSI Spatium M570 Pro vs Competitors
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Endurance, TBW & Warranty
The 4 TB MSI Spatium M570 Pro FROZR carries a rated endurance of 3,000 TBW (terabytes written), the highest in a lineup that scales from 700 TBW on the 1 TB through 1,400 TBW on the 2 TB. MSI covers the drive for 5 years, with coverage ending at whichever threshold comes first, the 5-year term or 3,000 TBW of cumulative writes. The 5-year term is the standard retail coverage for this tier and is longer than the 3-year OEM warranties on some competing Gen5 drives.
For a 4 TB drive the endurance limit is more relevant than on the smaller capacities, because a drive this size is more likely to see write-heavy work such as video capture or scratch-disk use. Even so, the time limit binds first for most buyers: at a typical 20 GB of writes per day, exhausting 3,000 TBW would take around 411 years; at a heavy 100 GB per day it is still roughly 82 years. The drive is rated at 1,600,000 hours MTBF, a population-reliability statistic rather than a per-unit life expectancy.
MSI Spatium M570 Pro 4 TB Specifications
| Category | Value |
|---|---|
| Capacity [?] | 4 TB |
| Interface [?] | M.2 5.0 |
| Controller [?] | Phison PS5026-E26 8 Channels |
| Memory type [?] | Micron 232-L TLC |
| DRAM [?] | Yes |
| Read speed (MB/s) [?] | 12400 |
| Write speed (MB/s) [?] | 11800 |
| Read IOPS [?] | 1300000 |
| Write IOPS [?] | 1500000 |
| Endurance (TBW) [?] | 3000 |
| MTBF (million hours) [?] | 1600000 |
| Warranty (years) [?] | 5 |
Verdict: Is the Spatium M570 Pro Worth It in 2026?
The MSI Spatium M570 Pro 4 TB FROZR is the drive to buy if you want the maximum capacity of MSI's earlier cooled Gen5 lineup without giving up flagship speed. It keeps the family's peak 12,400 MB/s reads and 11,800 MB/s writes, adds the lineup's highest endurance at 3,000 TBW, and carries the largest SLC cache so sustained writes hold full speed the longest, all under the pre-installed FROZR tower cooler.
Step down to the 2 TB if you do not need 4 TB of space, since it delivers the same flagship speed for less money and is the value sweet spot of the line, or move to the newer MSI M580 FROZR if you want a faster successor on the same cooled platform, since the M580 reaches 14,600 MB/s reads. Skip the M570 Pro FROZR if your build cannot fit the tall tower cooler. For a desktop content-creator rig or a system with a genuinely large game and media library, the 4 TB M570 Pro FROZR pairs flagship Gen5 speed with the endurance and headroom to match, at a lower price than the equivalent M580.
+ Pros
- Bundled FROZR passive tower heatsink included
- PCIe 5.0 with 12,400 MB/s flagship sequential reads
- 3,000 TBW endurance, highest in the M570 Pro line
- Phison E26 with Micron 3D TLC and DRAM cache
- Largest SLC cache sustains writes longest
- 5-year warranty with 1.6M-hour MTBF
- Cons
- Superseded by the faster MSI M580 FROZR
- Tall FROZR cooler blocks adjacent M.2 slots
- Hot-running Phison E26 draws up to 11.5 watts
- 4 TB carries a capacity premium over the 2 TB
- Peak Gen5 speed is wasted on most current games
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