Corsair MP700 Pro SE review: One of the best PCIe 5.0 SSDs

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Expert’s Rating

Pros

As quick as you’ll discover
Available in as much as 4TB
Optional heatsink/cooler

Our Verdict

The Corsair MP700 Pro SE got here inside a whisker of capturing the NVMe SSD efficiency crown — lacking by a distinction not price mentioning. A real short-lister of a PCIe 5.0 drive.

Price When Reviewed

4TB: $625

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The MP700 Pro SE that Corsair despatched us for evaluation really is a “special edition,” and never only a advertising and marketing alternative, as many are. Thanks to a NAND improve, the SE’s benchmark efficiency blows the doorways off its barely older sibling, a really worthy drive in its personal proper.

In truth, the MP700 Pro SE paced itself right into a digital tie with the mighty Crucial T705 for quickest shopper NVMe SSD we’ve ever examined.

Further studying: See our roundup of the best SSDs to find out about competing merchandise.

What are the Corsair MP700 Pro SE’s options?

The MP700 Pro SE is a 2280 type issue, PCIe 5.0 x4, NVMe SSD using the newest TLC NAND. The upgraded 2,400MT/s (megatransfers/second) NAND (the older Pro is solely 2,000MT/s) is the principle distinction on this newest Special Edition. Both drives use the identical Phison PS5026-E26 controller and 2GB of DRAM per terabyte of NAND.

The firm warranties the MP700 Pro SE for 5 years, or 750TBW (terabytes to be written) per 1TB of capability. That’s better than the norm, which is round 600TBW per TB of NAND.

Corsair affords its SSD Toolbox for obtain, which helps you to see S.M.A.R.T information, wipe the drive, and TRIM the drive. As a reviewer courtesy, the corporate offers the part degree tech specs to us, not hiding them as another distributors do. Good on ya’, Corsair!

How a lot does the Corsair MP700 Pro SE price?

The 4TB Corsair MP700 Pro SE I examined retails for $625. It may even be out there with a heatsink cooler, and if pricing follows the norm, these SKUs will price $10 to $20 extra. Pricing for the heatsink SKUs wasn’t set on the time of this writing.

The MP700 Pro SE is priced a bit on the excessive facet, even for a 4TB PCIe 5.0 SSD. But it’s not outrageous given the efficiency and beneficiant TBW score. In all probability, you’ll discover it on-line at a worth nearer that of the like-performing competitors when it lastly ships.

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No pricing was out there for the plain 2TB model of the drive; nevertheless, the reviewer’s information additionally made point out of a Hydro X sequence in a 2TB capability for $355.

How quick is the Corsair MP700 Pro SE?

Long story quick, the 4TB MP700 Pro SE I kicked the tires on could be very, very quick. In truth, whereas being the second-fastest drive I’ve examined, it solely fell quick by a gnat’s eyebrow to the Crucial T705.

And I imply a gnat’s eyebrow — lower than one-hundredth of a %. That’s completely inside the margin of error and nothing to concern your self about. Take a gander on the CrystalDiskMark 8 sequential outcomes and see for your self.

The MP700 Pro SE is so near its high competitor in efficiency, that with a slight variance in testing it certainly may have been primary.

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Random efficiency in CrystalDiskMark 8 was additionally superb, though barely behind that of the Adata legend 970, which isn’t as quick within the CrystalDiskMark 8 sequential take a look at above, however does effectively in the true world.

Our real-world transfers additionally had the MP700 Pro SE in a photograph end with the Crucial T705. The different drives weren’t far behind.

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In the 450MB write, the corsair MP700 Pro SE was once more proper within the combine. A 3-second distinction in a 450GB write is a mere bagatelle. However, it’s possible you’ll discover that there’s not a number of distinction between the highest drives and the cheaper rivals in both real-world take a look at. Remember that when it’s time to buy.

When I lastly wrote sufficient information to exhaust the initially allotted secondary cache, efficiency waffled between 750MBps and 1.3GBps. It’s probably that the quicker NAND and good/short-term allotment of extra secondary cache stored the tempo affordable.

The MP700 Pro SE is so near the Crucial T705 in efficiency, that with a slight variance in testing it certainly may have been primary. Judge it accordingly.

Should you purchase the Corsair MP700 Pro SE?

The Corsair MP700 Pro SE is a unbelievable NVMe SSD, although it faces stiff competitors from the Crucial T705. If each ounce of efficiency is your need, you’ll be pleased with both. Buy whichever you get the perfect worth on.

How we take a look at

Drive assessments at present make the most of Windows 11, 64-bit operating on an X790 (PCIe 4.0/5.0) motherboard/i5-12400 CPU combo with two Kingston Fury 32GB DDR5 4800MHz modules (64GB of reminiscence complete). Both 20Gbps USB and Thunderbolt 4 are built-in to the again panel and Intel CPU/GPU graphics are used. The 48GB switch assessments make the most of an ImDisk RAM disk taking on 58GB of the 64GB of complete reminiscence. The 450GB file is transferred from a 2TB Samsung 990 Pro which additionally runs the OS.

Each take a look at is carried out on a newly NTFS-formatted and TRIM’d drive so the outcomes are optimum. Note that in regular use, as a drive fills up, efficiency might lower resulting from much less NAND for secondary caching, in addition to different elements. This will be much less of an element with the present crop of SSDs with far quicker late-generation NAND.

Caveat: The efficiency numbers proven apply solely to the drive we had been shipped and to the capability examined. SSD efficiency can and can fluctuate by capability resulting from extra or fewer chips to shotgun reads/writes throughout and the quantity of NAND out there for secondary caching. Vendors additionally often swap elements. If you ever discover a big discrepancy between the efficiency you expertise and that which we report, by all means, tell us.