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
