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The MP700 Micro 4TB comes in a very compact box, finished in the familiar yellow and black that Corsair uses across its product range. The front of the box has a clear image of the drive on it, and under this is a strip label with performance figures for the sequential read/write performance as well as the drive’s capacity. The rear of the box has multilingual information about the drive's performance and a logo displaying the fact that the drive comes with a 5-year warranty.
The 4TB MP700 Micro is built on a single-sided M.2 2242 format. Under the front label, which incorporates a copper foil to help with heat dissipation, is the Phison PS5031-E31T controller and a single 4TB 218-layer BiCS8 NAND package.
Phison's second consumer Gen 5 controller, the PS5031-E31T, is built on a 7nm process, which enables better efficiency and, even more importantly, less heat generation. A four-channel DRAM-less design (uses HMB technology instead of a dedicated DRAM IC), the E31T supports up to 8TB of TLC or QLC NAND flash memory with data transfer speeds of up to 3600 MT/s. It uses Phison's 7th-generation LDPC ECC engine for increased data reliability and supports AES256, TCG OPAL 2.01, and Pyrite 2.01 security.
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.
