News "Crucial Releases Its Fastest SSD Ever in the P5" - Tom's (Updated with reviews)

[UsandThem]

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/crucial-p5-m2-nvme-ssds-fastest

The P5 comes in four different capacities spanning from 250GB to 2TB. When it comes to sequential read performance, you don't have to worry too much since all four models feature read speeds up to 3,400 MBps. Sequential write performance is rated for 3,000 MBps across the 500GB, 1TB and 2TB variants and 1,400 MBps on the 250GB model. As is typical, Crucial didn't share the random performance values for the P5.

Crucial has finally released a competitive (on paper at least) PCIe 3.0 x4 drive. As one of the larger memory/NAND manufacturers out there, they sure did take their time to get there.

However, they did not release any pricing information, and since many of their competitors have already released (or soon to release) PCIe 4.0 SSDs, it will be interesting to see how well this new series does.

 

[DrMrLordX]

It has the same max sequential read rate as a 1TB 970 Evo? Sequential write is only 500 MB/s faster?

edit: oh, it's still a PCIe3 drive. NM.

 

[aigomorla]

it feels like ford vs ferrari, only crucial is ferrari, and ford is sabrent with its Gen4 Nvme.

 

[UsandThem]

It's been pretty quiet concerning this drive since it was announced, but the reviews are starting to show up.

The pricing is a little high on it compared to some of its competition (the street price should go lower once the inventory increases).

One common theme that stands out in all the reviews so far: If you are going to buy this drive, it would be wise to use a NVMe heatsink (either motherboard or after-market), or ensure the case has good cooling. This is also a drive that would not be the greatest fit in laptops due to its heat.

In the review at Tom's, they mention the high temperatures and throttling. However, they don't give any detailed info. Thankfully, the TechPowerUP review has the additional info concerning that. It seems that this drive will throttle with both read and write operations, and the controller hit 106 degrees Celsius while testing.

 

[razel]

Crucial was very late. I thought that was a typo that it's PCIe 3.0. None of the benchmarks or pricing make it very attractive either. Their 2 year old P1 for $95 with 1TB a day ago at NewEgg is the better buy.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Wow that thing is hot.

 

[Hans Gruber]

It's crucial to the discussion that you refer to their SSD as a Micron SSD. Like Samsung, Micron makes their own memory and SSD's.

 

[DrMrLordX]

It's crucial to the discussion

 

[WilliamM2]

I know Phison, Samsung, Marvel, and more announced new Gen 4 controllers over a year ago. Where are they? Ridiculous cost for Gen 3.

 

[VirtualLarry]

How does this compare with a Sabrent Rocket Q4, in a PCI-E 3.0 environment? (It's a 4.0 device.)

 

[UsandThem]

How does this compare with a Sabrent Rocket Q4, in a PCI-E 3.0 environment? (It's a 4.0 device.)

The TechPowerUp review had the Rocket Q listed as one of the comparison drives. The Crucial drive beats it in performance, however the Sabrent drive (the 1TB version) is $30 less, so it ends up higher in the price/performance category. This new Crucial drive really needs to be cheaper ($120 range), and then it would be a compelling drive to buy.