Corsair P64 64GB SSD Review

First Impressions

Since our Corsair SSD did not come in a retail package, we are skipping right to the First Impressions section.


This is a very handsome and striking looking drive with its two-tone light and silver all metal body. We love the fact that the metal case has that metal brushed look to it which is most likely a side effect of the metal extrusion process but it does sure look amazing.


In keeping with the overall colour scheme of the exterior box it will be shipped to customers in, the large label on the top of the drive is done in a black & white scheme which nicely contrasts with the darker gray silver top panel.

As with all labels we have seen on SSDs, this one doesn’t contain much in the way of information and is more of a product label, stating the make and model of the drive rather than anything else.


The label with all the interesting information is actually located on the back of this drive. It is small but what it lacks in size it makes up for in detail the Not only does it list a bevy of information but it also shows that the P64 is a rebadged Samsung MMCRE64G5MXP-0VB solid state drive.


While knowing the Samsung model number is all well and nice, what is pause worthy was the fact that the label states this drive ships with 1801 and not the newer 18C1 firmware. Idle Time Garbage Collection, which has been wrongly called “auto trim” was only released as a new feature in 18C1.

Needless to say, this brought things to screeching halt and we got in contact with Corsair to get to the bottom of this. We were able to confirm that no P64GB SSDs were ever released to the general public with the 1801 firmware (it is a labeling issue on Samsung’s end, not Corsair’s). The quote we got from one of our Corsair contact was: “we have never released any P64 to consumers with 1801(old) firmware.” That is good enough for us and we understand that when another company is responsible for the labels, these mix ups can happen. We should also state here and now that we will be detailing the Idle Time Garbage Collection feature a little later.

As with every other SSD we can remember ever seeing this SSD has been drilled and tapped for both bottom and side mounting options. Unlike most Indilinx SSDs, the Corsair P64 has no jumper pins located next to the power and data ports. This is to be expected as darn near everyone BUT Indilinx has mastered non-jumper based firmware flashing. Does this mean this drive can be flashed to a newer firmware? That is a question we will answer later in this review.