The performance of the Crucial T700 SSD drops to 100 MB/s when it reaches 86º

Just yesterday we knew the issue with Corsair MP700 drivescompatible with PCI Express 5.0 and finally reached the hands of users no cooling solution. These problems are not just with this Corsair unit, but with any other that count on Phison E26 controller, which are virtually all PCI Express 5.0 compliant drives. A similar case occurs with the Crucial T700 that they have analyzed in ComputerBasewhich does not go out, but offering disastrous performance when overheats.

The Crucial T700 unit tested by ComputerBase no cooling solutionha reduced typing speed up to ratios similar to those seen in the old HDDs, about 100MB/safter reaching the temperature limited max on this Phison E26 controller, 86 degrees. At least this unit doesn’t shut down like we’ve seen the Corsair do, requiring a reboot to get it working again, sacrificing in this case the performance offered. It seems that these units will also have to wait for the firmware upgrade to be offered by Phison as soon as it is ready and delivered to the manufacturers of SSDs.

For this reason, manufacturers recommend a cooling solution or directly sell the units with them installed. The problem will be in devices that, due to their dimensions, cannot accommodate a refrigeration system capable of keeping these units at a good temperature when maximum performance is required, such as laptops or miniPCs.

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