Corsair’s MP700 rivals the best SSDs around, and it’s also one of the few PCIe 5.0 SSDs in the retail market. However, consumers better heed Corsair’s listed requirements and put an M.2 heatsink or cooler on the MP700, as the drive can experience uncontrolled thermal shutdowns if pushed hard enough without one.
Phoronix and TechPowerUp have demonstrated what happens if consumers don’t adequately cool the Corsair MP700. Phoronix encountered malfunction issues in less than three minutes that caused the operating system to generate file system errors, implying that data corruption could result, while TechPowerUp saw thermal shutdowns in less than two minutes. We followed up with Phison, and the company issued the following statement to Tom’s Hardware:
