Crucial P5 2TB 3D NAND NVMe Internal SSD, up to 3400 MB/s - CT2000P5SSD8

Pros: After a week of use and abuse I'm quite impressed with this very small and amazing fast drive. Right off the start, I'm not going to list the generic benchmarks because they've already been posted but I can confirm, what you're seeing is correct. The P5 lives up to the numbers. I've used this drive in 2 different PC's. First on the one with the actual onboard slot for this type of drive and the second with a PCIe adapter. There was literally no difference between the two in terms of performance. So keep that in mind if you're looking for a drive like this, lack the onboard slot, but do have an open PCIe slot. The adapters are super cheap and Newegg has them as well! So onto the pros: - Speed... Now the difference between these drives and SSD's isn't as pronounced as moving from a platter drive to SSD. But man... You can see the difference. For gaming, loading times were cut down by around 10% across the board. Nothing mind blowing but a plus. For use as a scratch disk for media projects, this was even more impressive than the SSD I was using previously. Never thought the SSD would have been a bottleneck at some point! This put me in a situation of choosing between using it for work or play! I chose play... - Installation. Simple. Plug it in, screw it down. You're good to go. - Reliability. This is a tough one to judge based on my 1 week ownership however I'm adding this to the Pros based on 2 other factors. The 5 year warranty and the 600TBW. Let's be honest, the later is probably more than 99.9% of us will ever even come close to hitting. The 5 years part shows the trust Crucial is putting into their product. Take that for what you will.

Cons: This isn't really a con but it's the only thing I can think of that's close enough to it. - Heat. These drives do get very hot. Unless your PC has no airflow or you live next to the sun, you won't have to worry about it.

Overall Review: Here's the quick and dirty for this drive. There are drives that are faster than this one. There are some that are less expensive than this one. There are some that have higher iops than this one. The P5 is kind of like the jack of all. It's not going to be the best, but it's got the speed, the price point, and performance to make it worth getting. No complaints from me; I'm very happy with this addition to my setup.

Pros: This is the first Crucial device I have ever owned, but I've had my eye on them for quite a few years. I've been building enthusiast PC's for nearly 20 years, so I've seen the rise of a variety of technologies over the years. Crucial is bringing their P5 series M.2 NVMe SSD to the table with an unbeatable price to performance ratio for your gaming rig. All too often manufacturers only advertise maximum speeds, knowing their drives are only capable of performing at those speeds in short bursts. So you have to be careful when shopping for an SSD. I got the 1 TB capacity drive. As this is my first Crucial drive, I wasn't entirely sure what to expect from this SSD, but this Crucial P5 M.2 SSD is capable of maintaining speeds very close to what's advertised for extended durations. Often times drives can maintain their rated speeds for short bursts, but your good quality drives can maintain those speeds over longer periods of time. The Crucial P5 falls into that category. With this Crucial P5 1 TB M.2 drive, the read speeds are exceptional and the write speeds are very good. At this point, this is my third M.2 SSD, but I have been using a 1 TB 960 Evo M.2 for the past couple of years that I am able to compare it to. In most of the benchmarks, this drive destroys the 960 Evo. I am confident it would also outperform the 960 Pro and will definitely give the 970 series of SSDs a run for their money as well, and at a much, much lower price point. The primary difference between my old drive and this one is the write speeds are significantly higher. Read speeds are higher too, but write speeds are not only higher, they're more consistent, and over a much longer duration. I performed benchmarks comparing my two drives with multiple passes of file sizes between 1 and 16 GB. I used 3 different benchmarks, AS SSD, Crystal Disk Mark and Samsung Magician. I am using the most recent versions of each. Samsung Magician: 960 Evo 1 TB Sequential Read: 2929 MB/s Sequential Write: 1812 MB/s Random Read: 363, 281 IOPS Random Write: 166,259 IOPS Crucial P5 1 TB Sequential Read: 3492 MB/s Sequential Write: 3313 MB/s Random Read: 424,316 IOPS Random Write: 413,574 IOPS AS SSD: (Note: Seq tests are file size of 10 GB, 4K are 1 GB) 960 Evo 1 TB Seq. Read: 2807 MB/s Seq. Write: 1097 MB/s 4K Read: 43 MB/s 4K Write: 141 MB/s Access Time Read: .084 ms Access Time Write: .026 ms Crucial P5 1 TB Seq. Read: 3007 MB/s Seq. Write: 2855 MB/s 4K Read: 53 MB/s 4K Write: 123 MB/s Access Time Read: .032 ms Access Time Write: .084 ms Crystal Disk Mark: 960 Evo File Size 16 GB Seq Read: 2754 MB/s Seq Write: 1157 MB/s File Size 1 GB Seq Read: 2858 MB/s Seq Write: 1856 MB/s 4K 8QT8 Read: 1467 MB/s 4K 8QT8 Write: 1366 MB/s 4K 32Q1T Read: 709 MB/s 4K 32Q1T Write: 601 MB/s 4K 1Q1T Read: 48 MB/s 4K 1Q1T Write: 170 MB/s Crucial P5 1 Tb File Size 16 GB Seq Read: 3498 MB/s Seq Write: 3301 MB/s File Size 1 GB Seq Read: 3487 MB/s Seq Write: 3315 MB/s 4K 8QT8 Read: 1502 MB/s 4K 8QT8 Write: 2323 MB/s 4K 32Q1T Read: 524 MB/s 4K 32Q1T Write: 490 MB/s 4K 1Q1T Read: 51 MB/s 4K 1Q1T Write: 128 MB/s

Cons: There's only one issue that gives me cause for concern about this drive, and that's heat. In my case, which has more than adequate cooling, it idled at 52C, which is 6C hotter at idle than any other M.2 I have experience with. And temps rose to a max of 76C in less than one minute under torture testing. It never thermal throttled, but it took a very long time for the temperature to come back down after it spiked. Granted, this SSD is getting direct air flow blocked by two liquid cooled 2080 Ti's, but I would very seriously consider getting a heat sink for this SSD if I were planning to buy one. I have one on my 960 Evo. It's just an inexpensive chunk of finned copper and a thermal pad that are held in place with a zip tie, and it makes a significant difference. This drive will work just fine under ordinary circumstances, but a heat sink may increase the life span of your drive. It's a common misconception that M.2 SSD's like to run hot. They don't like to run too cool, but they also don't like to be too hot. Maintaining temperatures under above 20C and under 70C is ideal. I have been thoroughly impressed with the performance of this SSD. Considering it's performance, this drive is at an extremely competitive price point, making it perfect for a gaming PC. Although, at this time, M.2 SSDs aren't really a budget friendly option for the average PC gamer. Putting them out of reach for the average PC builder who is more concerned with maximizing their frames per second, with system responsiveness taking a back seat. M.2 SSDs are typically not very high in capacity, making them less than ideal as the sole data drive for the modern gaming PC. With many recent games exceeding 100 GB each, it limits the number of games you can have installed at any one time. When I went to install this drive it didn't automatically come up as an available drive in Windows 10. If you were doing a fresh install of Windows, it will force you to create a partition before you even get started. If, like me, you're adding this as a secondary drive to an existing system, then you will have to manually go in and create a partition, and assign a drive letter. This process has changed multiple times since Windows 10 released. At the time of this review, for Windows 10, you right click on the start button and select disk management. Then go to the bottom and right click the area that says Unallocated, select New Simple Volume and follow the instructions. After that you're good to go. One of the concerns I had when Installing a new secondary M.2 SSD in my system was would I have enough PCI-E lanes available? I'm running SLI 2080 Ti's on an i9 9900K, which only has 16 PCI-E lanes. SLI won't work with any fewer than 8 lanes per graphics card, so I couldn't afford to lose any lanes. Fortunately, the way it works, at least with my motherboard, EVGA z390 Dark, is that M.2 devices are assigned lanes off of the motherboard's chipset. I have two M.2 slots, both occupied, and both are running at PCI-E Gen 3 x4 speed, and my SLI is working as it should.

Overall Review: With the extremely impressive write speeds of this Crucial P5 M.2 SSD, it makes it absolutely perfect for the content creator who wants to capture high resolution gaming at the native quality and frame rate. With the blazing fast write speeds of this SSD, it won't have any trouble with that whatsoever. The write latency of this drive may seem a little high, but it's actually still quite fast. For most people, you're going to want to minimize latency on the read side as much as possible, since you're reading much, much more than you're writing. This drive does that. If you compare the write latency of this drive to standard hard drives or even standard SSD's, it thoroughly crushes them. The primary benefit of any quality M.2 SSD is system responsiveness. The days of sitting and waiting for your system to boot up are over. With this M.2 SSD, your system is ready to go as fast as it can turn on and there's no waiting, ever. Well, there are still some things that will make you wait a bit, but it won't be because your storage drive is a major bottleneck like it was in the days of mechanical hard drives. For the performance it offers, the price point of this drive is fantastic. Especially if you're the type of user who knows what they're looking for. This drive has blistering fast read speeds to rival any other PCI-E 3.0 M.2 SSD available now. They only thing you have to compromise is a bit of latency and speed on the write side. If you're using this for gaming, the price makes it about the best value you can get for PCI-E gen 3. Just two years ago, when I bought my 960 Evo, it cost over double what this drive is selling for at the time of this review. It was the same story, only much worse in read to write performance ratio. The Crucial P5 is as fast as many drives that are much more expensive. My only concern with this drive is the heat. Aside from that, I have been very impressed with the Crucial P5's price to performance ratio and it deserves no less than 4 Eggs.

Pros: - Like the title says this nvme drive is very fast.

Cons: - Random writes could be better

Overall Review: Overall this SSD is very fast. I have 5 different types of SSDs I can compare this to that I have personally at home and this is in my top 2 performance wise. Compared to Samsung 850 Pro SATA, SanDisk SATA m.2, BPXP 1 TB, Crucial P2 512 nvme. Reads and writes for sustained transfers (ie. large files) were in line with advertised speeds. Random 4k reads and writes were passable (not bad, not great). Compared to the Cricuail P2 series drive, this definitely performed better. I would say the Crucial P5 is best compared to the 970 Pro drives based on the numbers I saw, though the latter costs a bit more and is slightly faster on random r/w. After using this in two systems (Intel and AMD), I had zero issues. Windows installed perfectly each time and was nice and snappy. Crucial has always been a rock-steady brand and I have no problem recommending this in your next build. The P series nvme drives are solid offerings at fair prices.

Pros: There are “Fast” and “slow” SSD’s, and this is a fast one (NVMe) This is the flagship P5 (not to be confused with the P2). They are going head to head with Samsung 970 Evo Plus here. (What I have) Crystal Disk Info shows temps @ 59° without heat sink on a hot summer day. I personally like to slap a heat sink on it, because why not, they are only a few dollars and it makes a difference in temps. I can prove that a cooler temp will last longer, but I still likes the lower temps. A single large compressed file, it’ll copy any huge file (from a RamDrive with read and write speeds @ 10GB/sec) at about 2.4GB/second just fine until the buffer fills up (6GB). Then it copies at about a sustained 700MB/second. Faster than any SATA SSD for sure. The bottom line is this: It’s snappy and you can’t tell the difference between a 970 Evo plus in day to day use.

Cons: Get a heatsink. Yes, all of these drives do throttle when they get hot, but who is really running benchmarks all day every day? Real-world you’ll be fine.

Overall Review: This is made by Micron, and they know what they are doing. I would say it’s the “slowest” of the fast NVMe SSDs, but it’s also the cheapest. And I’ve had at least a dozen SSD’s, and many SSD’s in a RAID 0, I’ve had them all, and the truth is, you’re not going to be able to tell the real-world difference, they are all snappy and great, so go with a cheap NVMe name brand one. Like this one.

Pros: This thing is FAST. Like night-vs-day fast, even compared to my existing SATA3 SSD. My already fast boot speeds were noticeably reduced and this thing just flies. I don't want to copy and paste a ton of test results that will just get glanced over, so here's some of the highlights: sequential read and write speeds maxed out well over 3000 MB/s! The gold standard for SSDs has long been Samsung's EVO drives, and this one compares pretty directly while literally being 1/3 of the price. Windows install completes in minutes. Booting is incredibly fast, as is waking up from sleep. If you're already running any m.2 drive, this won't be quite as much of a difference, but more than likely you will still notice a drastic improvement in some load times.

Cons: I see several other reviews mentioning temperatures getting high, but I didn't notice any issues with this thing sandwiched into my HP Omen (alongside the 1 TB HDD). Unfortunately, it won't fit into my older desktop that lacks the M.2 port. Oh well.

Overall Review: My only concern with this drive is reliability - I've used 4 different SSDs (2.5" and M.2) and after a few years, all but one has failed (the one still going is only about a year old). I'm not a power user anymore, though I do some photo editing with large files. This technology just doesn't seem to be as reliable as platter-style drives, so I would always say you should back up your files on the regular! This drive does come with a 5 year warranty, but that doesn't appear to include data recovery in the event of a covered failure.

Pros: Very fast at launching and zoning in games like Borderlands etc Price point/yes

Cons: It beat my higher cost one/sniffle/smiles

Overall Review: I ran speed tests and yes they are at or exceeding specs and I knew others would dive into that we all know these boot ultra fast so I decided run an extra adapter and test this for gaming. I have a small 250 for the operating system, another for games office stuff so decided that this would be a great drive to test against, I was surprised and happy when it actually beat my other one (although by small margins) and am glad that the price point makes it affordable to many now and it may sound out there but some games that access the hd continually are actually smoother compared to my other. All of my drives are ssd or NVMe but I will say this is the fastest and smoothest for continual hit's on the HD. I have a buddy that use to continually zone a half second ahead of me and now he is mad because I am a hair faster than him and he has a superior cpu. I have used Crucial memory many times on builds with exceptional results and now I will be looking at them for future builds.

Pros: The Crucial CT1000P5SSD8 (1 TB) is an extremely fast M.2 SSD using 3rd GEN PCIe interface. I bench marked this against a Seagate ZP1000GM30011 (1TB) and a Corsair MP510 (2TB). For the testing I used CrystalDiskMark on a Windows 10 x64 system and ran the test with 4 passes (1GB) at 3 separate times and took the average of the results. NOTE: My hardware specs were the same in all of my tests using a Ryzen 3900 on an ASUS Crosshair x470 motherboard with 32GB of memory running at 3800Mhz. Seagate ZP1000GM30011 (1TB) -------------------------------------------------------------- Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 3468.881 MB/s Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 3125.871 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 586.406 MB/s [143165.5 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 524.853 MB/s [128137.9 IOPS] Sequential Read (T= 1) : 2222.290 MB/s Sequential Write (T= 1) : 3152.058 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 51.666 MB/s [ 12613.8 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 175.905 MB/s [ 42945.6 IOPS] Crucial CT1000P5SSD8 (1TB) -------------------------------------------------------------- Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 3503.111 MB/s Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 2910.393 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 379.186 MB/s [ 92574.7 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 342.572 MB/s [ 83635.7 IOPS] Sequential Read (T= 1) : 2449.914 MB/s Sequential Write (T= 1) : 2795.464 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 56.786 MB/s [ 13863.8 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 127.672 MB/s [ 31169.9 IOPS] Corsair MP510 (2TB) -------------------------------------------------------------- Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 3465.285 MB/s Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1557.084 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 569.911 MB/s [139138.4 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 32,T= 1) : 424.251 MB/s [103576.9 IOPS] Sequential Read (T= 1) : 1967.349 MB/s Sequential Write (T= 1) : 833.898 MB/s Random Read 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 37.352 MB/s [ 9119.1 IOPS] Random Write 4KiB (Q= 1,T= 1) : 181.301 MB/s [ 44262.9 IOPS] The results show us a few things. First, the Crucial P5 is coming up very close to the advertised specs which is a very positive thing, and in some cases (such as sequential read) has exceeded specs. Second, it does a great job with sequential reading and writing in all categories and is on par with the Seagate and beats the Corsair. Finally, it (in all my tests) seems to struggle with Random Reading and Writing.

Cons: With the price tag of this M.2 I am concerned with the Random Read and Write ability. In all my passes the results where the same. The price tag concerns me a bit since you can get a 2TB NVME (when on sale) for just a slightly higher price point. However it appears the 2TB units do not perform as fast as the 1TB units so if performance is what you want then 1TB is it.

Overall Review: The price point is very high (IMO) and I took 1 egg off because of the Random Reading and Writing not being on par with the other two units.

Pros: Seeing burst transfer rates up to 2.9GB/s and sustained transfer rates between 1-2GB/s.

Cons: Long transfers can run hot and data transfer speed throttled.

Overall Review: Added a heat sink and fan to my pair of drives and now they can sustain 500GB transfers without thermal throttling, idle temps have also dropped by 10C.