Crucial’s P5 has been their flagship NVMe SSD for a while now and it was pushing the limited of PCIe Gen 3.0 but with AMD having PCIe Gen 4 for a while now and Intel catching up on that as well more and more people can potentially put a faster Gen 4 drive to use so Crucial recently introduced their new P5 Plus drive which has upgraded its interface to PCIe Gen 4. Today I’m going to check out the 1TB P5 Plus drive and see how it performs in our test suite compared to a mix of gen 3 and gen 4 drives then we will see where Crucial has the new drives priced to see how they fit in the market. Is the P5 Plus the drive you should be looking at for your next build? Let’s find out!
Product Name: Crucial P5 Plus 1TB
Review Sample Provided by: Crucial
Written by: Wes Compton
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Specifications |
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Capacities Available |
500GB, 1TB, 2TB |
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Part Number |
500GB – CT500P5PSSD8 |
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Interface |
NVMe (PCIe Gen 4 x4) |
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Form factor |
M.2 (2280) |
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Sequential Read |
6600 MB/s |
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Sequential Write |
5000 MB/s |
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NAND |
Micron 3D NAND |
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SSD Endurance (TBW) |
500GB – 300TB |
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Reliability (MTTF) |
2 million hours |
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Operating Temperature |
0 °C to 70 °C |
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Advanced Features |
Dynamic write acceleration • Redundant array of independent NAND (RAIN) • Multistep data integrity algorithms • Adaptive thermal protection • Integrated power loss immunity • Active garbage collection • TRIM support • NVMe standard selfmonitoring and reporting technology (SMART) • Error correction code (ECC) • NVMe autonomous power state transition (APST) support • Device sleep support • Full-drive encryption capable (TCG OPAL 2.0) |
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Warranty |
5 Years Limited Warranty |
