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We are fast approaching the end of the road for PCIe 3.0 as PCIe 4.0 adoption begins with the motherboard and storage vendors, but Crucial offers us one more “extra fast” 3.0 drive called the P5.
The Crucial P5 SSD is a PCIe x4 NVMe M.2 drive that uses Micron’s 3D NAND TLC chips and driver to deliver sequential read speeds of up to 3,400 MB / s and sequential write speeds of 3,000 MB / s. Four storage capacities are offered, with the 500GB, 1TB and 2TB options, all with the mentioned speeds. It’s only the 250GB model that takes a hit, with sequential write speed reduced to 1,400MB / s.
According to Teresa Kelley, Vice President of Micron Consumer Products Group, “The Crucial P5 is our fastest and most innovative SSD product to date, driving NVMe Gen 3 capabilities to meet the demands of a rapidly growing market … PC and games enthusiasts will discover that the P5 was built to answer its call for high performance and processing power. ”
In addition to promising to be an extremely fast internal SSD, Crucial offers each drive with a five-year warranty and Crucial Storage Executive packages for easy drive management, and Acronis True Image to easily replace your existing drive, in the box. The life expectancy of the P5 is 1.8 million hours, but the resistance differs depending on the model chosen. The 250GB model offers 150 Total Written Bytes (TBW), the 500GB model offers 300TBW, the 1TB 600TBW and the 2TB handles 1,200TBW.
For now, the P5 is coming soon and no price has been revealed. However, Crucial did announce a new budget-friendly P2 M.2 SSD at the same time as the P5. It’s now available in 250GB and 500GB capacities for $ 54.99 and $ 64.99 respectively. The read and write speeds are significantly lower than those offered by the P5, but still respectable enough to consider P2 for an older laptop or PC storage upgrade.
