MSI SPATIUM M460 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 S78-440L930-P83 1 TB

Relatively inexpensive, high-quality and fairly fast SSD drive with a capacity of 1 TB. It belongs to the entry-level price segment and is part of the MSI SPATIUM 2023 drive line, which combines well-balanced mid- and high-end solid state drives. In terms of price and performance, Spatium drives are a universal choice for work and gaming builds that require high, but not record-breaking, data transfer speeds.

The drive supports the NVMe 1.4 protocol and is made in a compact M.2 2280 form factor, so it can be used even in laptops with a thin 15 mm case. Since this is an entry-level solution, a fairly simple and high-quality entry-level controller in the form of the Phison E21T is used as the brain. This is a four-channel controller that supports the PCI-E 4.0 x4 interface and NVMe 1.4 specifications, but does not have a full-fledged DRAM buffer.

Thanks to it, the MSI SPATIUM M460 drive is capable of delivering sequential read and write speeds of up to 5000 and 4500 MB/s. At the same time, the random read and write speed reaches 550 and 950 thousand IOPS, respectively. These are pretty solid numbers, which roughly correspond to the level of the previous generation flagship controller Phison PS5016-E16. Such characteristics allow it to be positioned as an inexpensive option for two completely different use cases. The first is expanding and accelerating memory in a gaming PC, laptop or console. The second is use as part of a well-assembled workstation for creating and processing original content. In the latter case, potential buyers may be attracted by the official 5-year warranty and the TWB guaranteed recording resource, which is solid for this price segment, which is 600 TB.