Corsair MP700 Elite Gen 5 2TB NVMe SSD Review – Totally Unexpected SSD That is Worth The Look

PCMARK 10 FULL SYSTEM STORAGE BENCHMARK

PCMark 10 Storage Benchmarks produce an overall score as a measure of drive performance. Comparing devices is as simple as comparing scores. The tests also measure and report the bandwidth and average access time performance for the drive. Each test uses traces recorded while performing real-world tasks such as booting Windows 10, starting applications such as Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, working with applications such as Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, and copying several large files and many small files.

The Corsair MP700  Elite Gen5 DRAMless 2TB SSD sits in our top 15 SSDs tested to date which is a very good thing.

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PCMARK 10 QUICK SYSTEM STORAGE BENCHMARK

The Quick System Drive Benchmark is a subset of the Full test and is more representative of typical daily usage to show what would be expected regarding hybrid SSD performance on a day-to-day basis.

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The Corsair MP700  Elite Gen5 DRAMless 2TB SSD once again did great in placing with some of the best SSDs tested to date.

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TRUE DATA TESTING

For our True Data Testing, we simply loaded 15GB video, music, photo and OS files onto the Corsair MP700 Elite Gen5 2TB SSD and copied the data to a new folder on that same disk.

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Remember at the beginning of this report when we spoke of the importance of data transfer speeds relating to low 4K random read and writes? This tests is where the MP700 700 Elite shines best, placing 6th best of all tested and with a super low OS data transfer time of 24 seconds.

PASSMARK PERFORMANCE TEST

We thought we might add a few extras in our report today, PassMark Performance Test DiskMark component being a nice addition. This software tests sequential reads and writes, along with IOPS and compares the result with millions of other SSDs worldwide. We might suggest being in the 99th percentile of all SSDs tested was a nice result.

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The Corsair MP700 Elite scored in the 99th percentile on the world scale for this benchmark and once again placed in the top 15 of our SSDs tested to date.

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FINAL FANTASY XIV: ENDWALKER BENCHMARK

The Final Fantasy Benchmark is a new tool in our arsenal and geared specifically to the gamer. The software is installed directly on the SSD and the SSD tested, providing and end result of FPS and scene transition times.

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Game load time testing for the Corsair MP700 Elite came in at 6.3 seconds, placing at #12 of SSDs tested to date.

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