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The drive comes in a compact box with a clear image of the drive on the front. Under the image is a strip label with performance figures for sequential and random reads/writes. The label wraps around one side of the box, and the drive's capacity is printed on the wrap-around section. The rear of the box has multilingual information about the drive's performance, and there is a logo signifying the 5-year warranty Corsair backs the drive with.
The 2TB MP700 Pro XT is built on a single-sided format. The drive doesn't have a heatsink, but the product label does have a copper layer built into it. Under the product label sits a Phison PS5028-E28 8-channel controller, two 1TB packages of BiCS8 218-layer 3D TLC NAND and a 2GB LPDDR4 cache IC.
Phison's PS5028-E28 is the next-generation 8-channel controller that has been designed to replace the PS5026-E26 (the first consumer Gen5 controller). Built on a 6nm process (the E-26 uses a 12nm process), the PS5026-E28 supports up to 32TB of TLC or QLC NAND flash memory with data transfer speeds of up to 3200 MT/s. The controller supports Phison's 8th Generation LDPC ECC engine. The controller supports AES 256, Pyrite, SHA 512, RSA 4096 and TCG Opal security protocols. Performance-wise the controller supports Sequential read / write speeds of up to 14,900MB/s and 14,500MB/s, respectively. Random 4K performance is quoted as up to 3,000K IOPS for read and writes.
Corsair’s SSD management utility is called SSD Toolbox. It's not the funkiest-looking GUI we've ever seen, but having said that, it does give you all you really need to keep an eye on the drive. It provides drive information and S.M.A.R.T details and also supports firmware updates, secure wiping of the drive, drive optimisation and usefully incorporates a disk cloning utility.
