Small SSDs for the Steam Deck could be found for a while, but yesterday Corsair launched its MP600 1TB mini SSD, which should deliver better performance than the other options. Here are the cheapest places to find it in the US and UK!
The Corsair MP600 Mini offers a higher capacity than any Steam Deck you can buy from Valve, with official products peaking at 512GB. That means you get twice as much storage with this drive, or even more if you’re upgrading to the 256GB or 64GB eMMC model.
In terms of performance, we can expect good things from this drive – it’s a PCIe 4.0 model rated for read and write speeds of up to 4800MB/s, with random reads/writes also great – 850K IOPS and 1100K IOPS respectively. That puts it in close competition with the full-size Corsair MP600 Pro and some The best gaming SSD on the market.
However, it’s important to note that these speeds are achieved by the PCIe 4.0 interface, which you won’t find on the Deck – Valve’s handheld is limited to PCIe 3.0 speeds. That means maximum read and write speeds are around 3500 MB/s, while random speeds will drop to the same. It will be interesting to see what the first reviews of the MP600 Mini have to say, but you should minimize game load times with this drive!
The drive’s PCIe 4.0 nature should also make it a good choice for future Steam Deck competitors, including the recently announced Asus ROG Ally, assuming of course that they do. easy enough to disassemble and swap the drives.
In any case, I hope this deal is interesting to you – and be sure to let me know what you think in the comments section below! Thanks for joining me again and I’ll see you tomorrow for the last two deals of the week.
