Corsair MP700 PRO 2TB PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD

With the Dbench storage benchmark when running 12 clients, the performance was quite poor albeit similar to the MP700 and the Inland PCIe 5.0 drive. The Micron 7450 Max was by far much faster and while data center grade only around $80 USD more than the 2TB MP700 PRO.

The MP700 PRO results weren't impressive either with the CockroachDB database benchmark. Again, the Samsung SSDs on Linux have been known to perform extremely poorly in these database benchmarks over the years.

With PostgreSQL 16 the database results atop the Corsair MP700 PRO weren't anything impressive with the drive performing similar to the MP700 and in the middle of the pact of the tested SSDs on Ubuntu 23.10.

Here is the Corsair MP700 PRO temperature across all of the benchmarks carried out. The air cooler available with the MP700 PRO is quite capable with a 37 degree average under load and a peak recorded temperature of 53 degrees. With PCIe 5.0 NVMe storage at this point active cooling is pretty much necessary and at least with the MP700 PRO, Corsair has upped the positioning by including an active heatsink. The cooler wasn't too noisy during my testing but does add some small amount of noise to the system overall if your system is otherwise very quiet.

The Corsair MP700 PRO is certainly an improvement over the Corsair MP700 PCIe 5.0 drive. The Corsair MP700 PRO 2TB did perform very well for random reads and sequential reads/writes with FIO, but the random write performance was disappointing. In various real-world database servers, the Corsair MP700 PRO performance also didn't come out as anything great either -- again for mostly random write type workloads. For sequential reads and writes this PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD can be very speedy, but like the other PCIe 5.0 drives struggled in random write type workloads. The price at around $325 also remains very high but is part of the PCIe 5.0 drive premium at this point. In comparison for around $400 USD is the Micron 7450 Max that is PCIe 4.0 based but very fast, 3.2TB of storage, and often led in many of the real-world software packages tested for that data center grade U.3 NVMe drive.