Orico O7000 SSD review: high-end PCIe 4.0 storage without the frills
Orico O7000: One-minute review
While we are technically in the PCIe 5.0 storage era, this is truly the golden age of PCIe 4.0 SSDs due to the plethora of choices, such as the Orico O7000, which is positioned as a mid-range high-end performance drive at a price point.
This PCIe 4.0 SSD comes in capacities ranging from 512GB to 4TB, and for this review, we’ll be trying out the 1TB model. The O7000 is rated at 7000MB/s read and 6500MB/s write speeds, but it’s not on the high end of PCIe 4.0 storage (which it would be Samsung 990 Pro), but it’s pretty close.
What’s particularly interesting about this drive is that it currently costs $69 (around £55/AU$100), which is relatively low for a drive of this caliber at the moment.
Compared to high-end PCIe 4.0 SSDs like the FireCuda 530R Seagate Compared to Corsair’s MP600 Pro NH, the O7000 is only slightly slower in most situations, and typically has both drives bundled together.
However, when writing large amounts of data to the O7000 (such as moving all your game installations to it), its performance can easily bog down and become extremely sluggish.
The O7000 1TB also has a weakness in that other brands offer the same SSD hardware under different names, and these drives are sometimes cheaper, but sales pricing is always a fickle thing.
But for now, the O7000 is the cheapest option for this hardware, and its performance makes it one of the best values ​​in PCIe 4.0 storage.
Orico O7000: price and availability
- how much does it cost? From $69 (approx. £55/AU$100)
- When will it be released? Now available
- Where can you get it? Available in the US, UK and Australian availability to be determined
The O7000 is currently available at Amazon and Newegg, although at the time of writing, Amazon only offers the 1TB model, Newegg also has 2TB and 4TB models in stock. The 1TB model costs $59, the 2TB model costs $93, and the 4TB model costs $196. Currently, 2TB is the best price on a dollar per GB basis, but since SSD prices can easily go up or down, it’s unclear how long this will last.
At $59 for the 1TB model, it’s significantly cheaper than other flagship PCIe 4.0 drives such as Seagate’s FireCuda 530R and Corsair’s MP600 Pro NH, which sell for $94 and $84 respectively for their 1TB versions. It’s also significantly cheaper than older PCIe 5.0 SSDs, such as the $169 FireCuda 540 1TB.
Orric O7000: Specifications
| Rated sequential read speed (MB/sec) | Row 0 – Cell 1 | Up to 7,000 |
| Rated sequential write speed (MB/sec) | Row 1 – Cell 1 | Up to 6,500 |
| interface | Row 2 – Cell 1 | M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0 |
| NAND gate | Row 3 – Cell 1 | Yangtze Storage TLC |
| controller | Row 4 – Cell 1 | Lianke Technology |
| dynamic random access memory | Row 5 – Cell 1 | host memory buffer |
| available capacity | Row 6 – Cell 1 | 512GB, 1TB, 2TB, 4TB |
| Endurance (TBW) | Row 7 – Cell 1 | Up to 1200 (4TB) |
Orric O7000: Performance
Overall, the O7000 shows good but not perfect performance. The 530R and MP600 Pro NH were faster in most situations, but the O7000 was a close second in almost every test. In some cases, the O7000 even tied or beat Seagate and Corsair drives.
A particular highlight of the O7000 is its thermal performance and efficiency. Its maximum temperature is only 50 degrees Celsius, which is much lower than the other three SSDs we tested. This makes the O7000 a good choice for laptops and handheld computers, which often lack good SSD cooling.
Of course, due to higher power consumption and more heat generated, the O7000 is also a low-power driver, which is another reason why battery-powered devices choose it.
The FireCuda 540 is certainly in a league of its own, but it costs roughly twice as much and benefits from active cooling, something the O7000 definitely doesn’t need.
However, the O7000’s biggest weakness is sustained writes. All SSDs have lower write performance as they have less free space, but the O7000’s performance can drop to 150MB/s. However, this situation is rarely encountered in the real world as it requires moving large files of tens or hundreds of GB to an SSD.
Orric O7000: Conclusion
While the O7000 1TB isn’t perfect, its overall performance is very close to the FireCuda 530R 2TB and MP600 Pro NH 2TB. The O7000 is priced much lower at $69, which largely makes the O7000 a better deal. If you’re looking for a new boot drive on a budget, or just want some fast secondary storage, the O7000 is a smart choice.
However, the SSD the O7000 1TB is based on is also made by other brands, including TeamGroup’s MP44. There’s really no reason to buy the more expensive drives since they’re essentially the same, but that works in Orico’s favor because the O7000 is cheaper.
The O7000 2TB is a particularly good deal right now, priced at just $93, not much more than many 1TB drives. Spending $34 more to get double the storage space and the same performance makes the O7000 2TB particularly attractive compared to the 1TB model, although we don’t know how long that will last as SSD prices can change frequently (and in this article This has been done in this review) and is in progress).
Should you buy the Orico O7000?
| category | notes | Fraction |
|---|---|---|
| value | It’s hard to find better value for money drives these days | 5/5 |
| Design and features | Typical warranty and durability, comes with a heatsink you don’t need | 4/5 |
| Performance | Everything is excellent for a PCIe 4.0 drive except for sustained writes | 4/5 |
| final grade | The O7000 would be a perfect PCIe 4.0 SSD if it weren’t for its sustained write speeds, which thankfully isn’t too important | 4.5/5 |
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How I tested the Orico O7000
Although IntelThe new Core Ultra 200 series has technically replaced the previous generation 14th Gen CPU, I used the LGA 1700 test bench for SSD testing instead of the LGA 1851 test bench.
This is because an SSD running on an Arrow Lake CPU actually performs much worse than running on a 14th Generation CPU. We’re not entirely sure why this is happening, but in order to demonstrate the best performance of our SSD, we had to use Intel’s latest generation CPUs.
The LGA 1700 test bench is equipped with a Core i9-14900K, ASRock Z790 Taichi Lite motherboard, 32GB DDR5 clocked at 5600MHz, and a Corsair H170i iCUE LINK liquid cooler with a 420mm radiator. We also tested the Firecuda 530R, Firecuda 540, and MP600 Pro NH for comparison.
