Corsair MP700 PRO 2TB PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD

For getting an idea for the performance capabilities of the Corsair MP700 PRO 2TB, it was benchmarked alongside a number of other NVMe SSDs I had available for this fresh round of testing using a Ryzen Threadripper 7980X system with Ubuntu 23.10 and upgrading to the Linux 6.7-rc2 kernel.

The Corsair MP700 PRO 2TB was compared to the 2TB MP700, 1TB Samsung 990 PRO, 2TB WD_BLACK SN850, Inland PCIe 5.0 2TB, Solidigm P44 Pro 1TB, and a Micron 7450 Max 3.2TB SSD. The comparison was limited by the drives I had around with often purchasing these drives due to not focusing too much on SSD reviews on Phoronix.

With the write-focused SQLite embedded database test of carrying out many insertions concurrently, the Corsair MP700 series as well as the Inland PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD perform significantly slower than the the likes of the Micron 7450 Max data center grade SSD and the WD_BLACK SN850 PCIe 5.0 SSDs. The worst performer though remains the Samsung 990 PRO that along with prior Samsung SSDs have performed very poorly for database workloads under Linux.

The Corsair MP700 PRO at least was performing slightly better than the MP700 in this heavy SQLite write/insertion test.

Turning to 4K random reads with FIO, the Corsair MP700 PRO 2TB performance is becoming quite interesting... Here the MP700 PRO was the fastest of the drives tested with 1.56 million IOPS for these 4K random reads.

But on a performance-per-dollar basis with the current retail pricing on these drives, the PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs remain at the back of the race.