Silicon Power P34A60 1TB NVMe SSD vs Corsair MP700 PRO 1TB SSD

The Corsair MP700 PRO is the faster drive by a wide margin: PCIe Gen5 with rated reads up to 11,700 MB/s and writes up to 9,600 MB/s, plus an active air cooler and AES 256-bit encryption. The Silicon Power P34A60 is a plain Gen3 drive at up to 2,200/1,600 MB/s, DRAM-less with HMB, and it is the simpler, cooler-running, lower-risk pick. Buy the Corsair if your board has a Gen5 M.2 slot and you move large files or want the drive to stay fast under sustained load. Buy the Silicon Power for an older laptop or desktop, a secondary drive, or any build where Gen5 bandwidth would go unused.

• Choose the Silicon Power P34A60 if you have a Gen3 M.2 slot, want a cool-running drive with no heatsink clearance issues, and need everyday speed for booting, apps and game loads.
• Choose the Corsair MP700 PRO if your motherboard has a PCIe Gen5 M.2 slot and you work with large video, dataset or compile workloads that benefit from its much higher sequential and random throughput.