Literally, ahead of the competition
MSI’s Spatium M580 is a Phison-based PCIe 5.0 SSD with Micron 232-layer 3D TLC NAND, 30% of which is SLC cache, and 8GB of DDR4-4266 cache, all of which is passively cooled. As you can see from the figure, passively cooling such a powerful SSD is a challenge. The cooler with three heat pipes is essentially as tall as the NVMe drive, so it won’t fit into the NVMe ports hidden beneath the GPU. If you can install it, though, TechPowerUp’s testing shows there’s no sign of thermal throttling even after more than 10 minutes of constant writing.
Even more impressive is how they managed to make Spatium M580 writes last 10 minutes, as they saw 12,556MB/s of sequential writes in CDM, not to mention over 14,000MB/s of sequential reads. This speed is matched by only a few competing SSDs, and they win by a rather small margin. When it finally goes on sale, you should expect similar pricing to competitors like the Crucial T705, which costs just over $500 for the 4TB model.
Behold the glory here.