Corsair MP400 8TB, M.2 2280 / M-Key / PCIe 3.0 x4

Corsair might have something special here; the MP400 is ticking all the right boxes. Your QLC scare vanishes the second you opt for bigger volume sizes. I'm not sure if I would want that 1 TB version, but I would be very comfortable with 400TBW for the 2 TB version, and the 4TB version with 800 TBW is, of course, luxurious as these are values we have only seen in Samsungs PRO series NVME storage units. The performance is breathtaking as well; it's premium PCIe Gen 3.0 performance. Typically you'd hit a QLC write hole, however with 4TB and these eight NAND chips, and you're fully utilizing eight channels on the controller. That paired with a bit of a pSLC and DRAM buffer ultimately makes any write hole vanish. And we tested that up-to 110 GB continuously written and full hardcore speeds. Summed up, the MP400 really managed to make me think differently about QLC NAND. When volume goes up, you have more NAND cells available, which prolongs your endurance massively. When one can eliminate the QLC write hole, then there's little left to be worried about. Corsair back this up with a 5-year warranty on this series, 5-years or the TBW value reached, whichever one comes first. This series needs better prices though, at close to 600 EUR for 4TB, people will still purchase an HDD. I think once we reach 10 cents per GB, say 400 EUR for an SSD like this, that's where the industry will hit a sweet spot. But I am impressed, and I myself am a little shocked that I am impressed with a QLC based SSD rethinking all this. But yeah, that's Corsair for ya, always thinking outside the box. Noice!