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A few days back we reviewed Corsairs latest and greatest MP700 Elite Gen 5 SSD and that review was rather impressive but for one thing. When we looked back for the original MP700 Pro review, we learned that we had somehow overlooked the MP700 Pro when released. Not to worry; our report today is on the Corsair MP 700 Pro which is yet another example of the success of the Phison E26 Gen 5 controller. Our report is of the MP700 with included active heatsink and we will mention right off that a heatsink is absolutely necessary when this SSD is in use.
The Corsair MP700 Pro is a PCIe 5.0 x4 (four lane) form factor 2280 (22mm wide x 80mm long) NVMe 2.0 that is available in 1, 2 and 4TB capacities and purchase configurations can be without heatsink, with heatsink or with the Hydro X Waterblock.
The version we are testing contains a black heatsink which has a fan within for active SSD cooling. There is a cable and SATA 15-pin power connector which must be attached to one of your PC SATA connector cables for the fan to work. The SSD does not achieve sufficient cooling without this connected and when attempting to utilize the heatsink without the fan.
Performance for this SSD is listed at 12400MB/s read and 11800MB/s write with up to 1.5M IOPS read and 1.6MB IOPS write at low 4K random data access. The MP700 Pro comes with a 5-year warranty and endurance is described as 700TBW (terabytes written) for each 1TB capacity.
The Corsair MP700 Pro is comprised of a black PCB (printed circuit board) that houses the Phison PS5026-E26 PCIe 5.0 8-channel NVMe SSD Controller on the left. Next up we have the LPDDR4 DRAM cache and Corsair has set this at 2GB DRAM per terabyte of storage which means our 2TB SSD actually has 4GB DRAM buffer.
This is a two-sided SSD which contains two pieces of Micron 232-layer 3D TLC B58R NAND flash memory, each piece accounting for 512GB of RAW storage. Checking Amazon, we can find this SSD priced at $164.99 (1TB), $264 (2TB) and $544.99 (4TB with a slight increase for the heatsink or Hydro X Waterblock.
Let’s check out the performance…