Corsair MP700 Elite 2TB with Heatsink Gen 5 SSD Review

1. Introduction2. Corsair MP700 Elite 2TB3. Testing Methodology4. CrystalDiskMark5. ATTO Disk Benchmark6. AS SSD7. 128KB Sequential Performance8. 4K Random Read v QD Performance9. 4K Random Write v QD Performance10. 4K 70/30 Mixed Performance11. 4K Random Performance QD1-QD812. Throughput13. PCMark 10 Full System Drive Benchmark14. 3DMark Storage Benchmark 15. Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker Official Benchmark16. Tempratures17. Real Life File Testing18. Closing Thoughts19. View All Pages

The PCMark 10 Full System Drive Benchmark uses a wide-ranging set of real-world traces from popular applications and common tasks to fully test the performance of the fastest modern drives. The benchmark is designed to measure performance of fast system drives using the SATA bus at the low end and devices connected via PCI Express at the high end.

The goal of the benchmark is to show meaningful real-world performance differences between fast storage technologies such as SATA, NVMe, and Intel’s Optane. The Full System Drive Benchmark uses 23 traces, running 3 passes with each trace. It typically takes an hour to run.

Traces used:

Booting Windows 10.
Adobe Acrobat – starting the application until usable.
Adobe Illustrator – starting the application until usable Adobe Premiere Pro – starting the application until usable.
Adobe Photoshop – starting the application until usable.
Battlefield V – starting the game until the main menu.
Call of Duty Black Ops 4 – starting the game until the main menu.
Overwatch – starting the game until main menu.
Using Adobe After Effects.
Using Microsoft Excel.
Using Adobe Illustrator.
Using Adobe InDesign.
Using Microsoft PowerPoint.
Using Adobe Photoshop (heavy use).
Using Adobe Photoshop (light use).
cp1 Copying 4 ISO image files, 20 GB in total, from a secondary drive to the target drive (write test).
cp2 Making a copy of the ISO files (read-write test).
cp3 Copying the ISO to a secondary drive (read test).
cps1Copying 339 JPEG files, 2.37 GB in total, to the target drive (write test).
cps2 Making a copy of the JPEG files (read-write test).
cps3 Copying the JPEG files to another drive (read test).

Corsair's MP700 Elite with Heatsink made a fairly decent job of the PCMark10's Full System Drive Benchmark. It averaged 317MB/s for the six Adobe startup traces, the fastest being 390MB/s for the startup test trace of Premiere Pro, the slowest being the Lightroom startup trace at 249MB/s. Switching over to the Adobe usage traces it averaged 645MB/s for the five tests, with the fastest being the 1,391MB/s for the Adobe Photoshop heavy usage trace while the slowest was the Adobe InDesign test at 327MB/s.

When it came to the three gaming test traces the drive averaged 554MB/s with the fastest being Battlefield V at 1,068MB/s and the slowest, Overwatch at 517MB/s. Call Of Duty Black Ops 4 was in the middle of these two at 797MB/s. Switching over to the file transfer tests the drive averaged 3,258.83MB/s for the six tests, the fastest of which was the cp1 Write test at 6,131MB/s.

With an overall bandwidth figure of 677.28MB/s, the MP700 with Heatsink sits in last place on the results table.

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