Testseek.com have collected 77 expert reviews of the Crucial / Micron M.2 P5 Series NVMe PCIe and the average rating is 85%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Crucial / Micron M.2 P5 Series NVMe PCIe.
August 2020
(85%)
77 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(94%)
287 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
85010077
The editors liked
Good real-life performance
Very good sequential read/write rates
Good sustained write performance
2 TB variant available
Five-year warranty
Compact form factor
Two thermal sensors
Available in 250GB
500GB
1TB and 2TB capacities
PCIe 3.0 x4 interface with NVMe protocol
Micron DM01B2 controller
Equipped with Micron 3D TLC NAND
Excellent sequential read and write performance
Good random read and write performance
Small M.2 228
High performance
Reasonable price
High quality
High compatibility
Low operating temperature
5-year warranty
Overall Performance (Up To 3400MB/s Read & 3000MB/s Write)
Endurance (
60
0
/1200
TBW)
5 Years Warranty
Crucial Storage Executive Software
Price (For Some)
Competitive pricing and specs
Hardware-based AES 256-bit encryption
Available in capacities up to 2TB
Blacked-out aesthetics
Software suite
Excellent everyday performance
Great bang for buck
Top-notch results across multiple benchmarks
Including speedy sequential throughput
Respectable write-durability rating
Great price-to-performance ratio
Solid software options
The editors didn't like
Fairly expensive
Thermal throttling with both read and write
Random IO performance lower than competitors
Can get quite hot
Write speed drops when SLC cache is full
Gets hot under heavy workloads
Nothing worth to mention
Thermal Throttling (During Our SNIA Tests)
Lower than average performance
High heat output
Runs hot and lacks heat spreader
Will slow down during very long writes
Anomalous 4K write speeds in Crystal DiskMark tests
Published: 2021-06-29, Author: stefan , review by: madshrimps.be
The P5 2TB model comes with a similar performance as the 1TB SKU, in some cases succeeding to overpass it by making use of more available SLC cache and the DRAM cache for storing the mapping tables. If the drive is heavily used at once, throttling will oc...
Published: 2021-03-12, Author: John , review by: pcmag.com
Abstract: Shopping for an SSD means facing a sea of acronyms. The trickiest of them are jagged reefs sticking out of the water, shaped like circuit boards and ready to run your upgrade aground if you're not careful."SSD," standing for "solid-state drive," is the on...
Published: 2020-12-30, Author: John , review by: pcmag.com
Abstract: Under the hoods of the newest, skinniest laptops (and in the hollows of the latest desktop-PC motherboards), solid-state storage has undergone a transformation. Even if you're a close observer of all things tech, it's understandable if you didn't even rea...
With the might of Micron behind it, the Crucial brand has a solid reputation for crafting affordable SSD and PC memory with great performance and reliability. Every PC DIYer out there probably used a Crucial product to build a new rig or upgrade a laptop...
Published: 2020-09-10, Author: stefan , review by: madshrimps.be
The P5 SSD from Crucial is quite impressive for a mainstream drive in terms of performance and even if it integrates TLC NAND, it can sustain high transfer rates for longer versus the budget oriented P2. After exhausting the 93GB of SLC cache, the transfe...
High performance, Reasonable price, High quality, High compatibility, Low operating temperature, 5-year warranty
Nothing worth to mention,
It's hard not to recommend the P5 SSD. It's fast and reliable, and that's what we expect from a high-quality SSD. Enthusiasts should be pretty satisfied with the performance of the Crucial P5 SSD, as it meets the expectations of both gamers and profession...
Available in 250GB, 500GB, 1TB and 2TB capacities, PCIe 3.0 x4 interface with NVMe protocol, Micron DM01B2 controller, Equipped with Micron 3D TLC NAND, Excellent sequential read and write performance, Good random read and write performance, Small M.2 228
Write speed drops when SLC cache is full, Gets hot under heavy workloads
Crucial has clearly put a lot of time and effort into their new P5 SSD. Instead of using an off the shelf solution from a company like Phison or Silicon Motion, this new drive has been engineered from the ground up. Everything from Micron's cutting-edge D...
Published: 2020-08-25, Author: Sean , review by: tomshardware.com
Competitive pricing and specs, Hardware-based AES 256-bit encryption, Available in capacities up to 2TB, Blacked-out aesthetics, 5-year warranty, Software suite,
Lower than average performance, High heat output, Runs hot and lacks heat spreader
Crucial's P5 is the company's first PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe SSD with hardware-based AES 256-bit security, but performance falls short of competitors...
