Crucial T700 PCIe Gen5 NVMe 2TB SSD with Heatsink, Up to 12,400MB/s, TLC NAND, Intel & Ryzen Compatible, for Hardcore Gaming & High-Speed Storage, Solid State Drive - CT2000T700SSD5

I feel like we need to be clear about these high-end products and manage expectations a bit. Sometimes the marketing can lead one to believe you're getting more than you are in terms of real-world performance. To be fair, Crucial does deliver on their claims. This is a fantastic product, in that it is reliable, well made, and technically faster than last gen. That being said, unless your use case is one in which you're reading and writing gigantic files, you're not going to see the benefit of gen 5 vs gen 4 in "practical" use. Most reads and writes are not sequential, and as such, you're not going to feel the speed. Just launching into various apps and games, you won't feel the difference at all. The potential difference between load times is within margin of error for the most part. To use a car analogy, non-sequential reads is like having a Bugatti that goes 200+ miles per hour, so you floor it coming off a stop light hoping to go fast. But the next stop light is 100 yards away. You can go pretty fast in that amount of time, because it's still a super fast car, but there's not enough room to reach top speed. Compared to a Corolla (spinning platter HDD), it's night and day. Compared to Lamborghini (gen 4 M.2), there might not be enough difference to make a difference. The are real world applications to these drives, to be sure. Mostly in the productivity and server space, though. Navigating the internet and loading games is not it, in my opinion. But with that said, if you're the kind of person who just wants to latest and best because it's available, go for it. That's what I did. I use this as my C drive with the OS on it, because why not? Theoretically, there's some speed increase to be had there, even if it's hardly noticeable.

I purchased a new computer and it only came with a single 1TB SSD.. Considering I'm a massive gamer I knew immediately it was going to be an issue.. I settled on an External drive with a fair bit of memory 8 TB's and that filled my needs for a while, but I noticed that some games had stuttering and lag, which considering the specs on my system shouldn't have been happening.. RTX4090, 64 GB of ram, etc etc etc etc.. So I narrowed down the likely causes to the External HDD, so I knew I needed to remedy that situation asap.. After searching around I settled on the Crucial T700,, highly rated, and reviewed.. The price is hefty but gaming isn't a cheap hobby, if you want to play like a pro, you gotta pay like a pro.. The install was super easy, plug and play pretty much, the only issue arose from trying to format the drive for use.. after a half hour and numerous youtube videos I discovered that I had forgotten to name the drive, after feeling like an idiot, I had my harddrive installed and ready to roll.. Download speeds have never been faster, I've always had issues with steam download times, normally stuff that my internet speeds should have done in minutes would take an hour or more, with the Crucial it's down to taking minutes again.. I honestly couldn't be happier with this product.. If had another slot on my board I'd pick up another and never have to worry about uninstalling and installing games again.. Extremely happy with this purchase..

This is blazing fast if your motherboard supports PCI 5.0. A couple things to keep in mind, it has it's own heatsink. I think you probably can remove it and use your own but from what I read it is a good one and does the job, so I just used the built in one. At first I had some issues getting it to sit properly on my motherboard and then realized there was a layer of compound on the back of it, which this has one built in, so once I removed that it was fine. The only negative issue I have had is that I can't get the crucial software to set the over provisioning. It keeps telling me to do it manually in drive manager. I think it is worth the price, it is fast, but keep in mind on real world experience, if you already have an m.2 you are likely not to notice a ton of difference unless you are copying a large file, normal day to day use is similar, actually my Sabarent Rocket 4 had better random read write speeds. I posted that benchmark also. But if you want the latest cutting edge and fastest... this is your drive. I also used the EaseUS Partition Master to clone my windows 11 os with zero issues. Worked perfectly, entire system cloned in about 9 minutes. I can't recommend that software enough...

great storage capacity, lightning fast, and the heatsink works great under heavy load!

I have bought several of these, no failures They are fast and reliable so far. I consistently get 12GB/s on read with Crystal Disk Mark. As I expected, they require a heat sink to prevent throttling (and they throttle under heavy write loads even with a heat sink). I didn't try active cooling, but if I were going to use these in a mainly heavy load situation, I probably would.

Make sure you slot this into the Pcie5 slot of your motherboard! I have used this drive in an Intel z-790-f motherboard and an AMD x670-e motherboard, and it was detected right away, no issues at all. Linux (Fedora 40) sees the drives and installed no problem. Speeds pretty much match what's advertised, so no issues there. Just make sure when you put this in a newer motherboard, that you pull the sticker off of the head sink pads when installing the drive, that can be easy to miss. These drives get hot so make sure it's installed properly. The motherboard cooling solutions work pretty well, so the drive getting hot shouldn't be an issue.

Edit 3: To add some spice, Crucial decided to not indicate on the commercial invoice of the returned drive that it was a warranty replacement... so UPS charged me taxes (129$) to clear the drive at customs! I'm done with Crucial. I had to contact Micron, who realized the mess and sent the proper documentation to UPS. A week later, the drive finally came. So that's it, no more Crucial for me, their support is India based and is not helping. If you buy, pray everything will go well... Edit 2: After contacting support, where I was asked to test the drive in a USB enclosure, I'm now told the RMA is declined because I removed the heatsink. Hey MICRON, this is not acceptable. I will fight this decision but will definitely look elsewhere first for future products. Can't RMA a 1000$ drive because I followed directions? You have got to be kidding me. Edit: Today, after a reboot, the computer didn't recognize the drive. After several attempts, took the drive out and onto a USB Nvme enclosure. No luck. This is ridiculous, a 1000$ drive that doesn't last 90 days? On top of that, there's no cross shipping for RMAs, which means I can't even go to a data recovery center as I don't have a grand floating around to buy a spare. Failures happen, I get that, but the customer support is not on par with the fact this is a premium 1000$ drive. 0 stars, buy from a different manufacturer. Was: Upon installing on my new Asus ProArt x670e motherboard, I was blown away by the speed of that Nvme, but less so by the operating temperature. This is a new computer build, which has 2 Noctua NF-A14 iPPC (B00KFCRF1A) about 4 inches away, blowing cool air past the Nvme. Still, the idle temperature was anywhere from 50-60C. Running a crude stress test using Crystal Disk Mark, the drive went up to 74C before I stopped the test. This is with the bundled heatsink. TLDR; Amazing drive, don't buy the bundled heatsink version, add a proper heatsink

As advertised, this NVME is really fast.

excellent drive that runs well with excellent speeds. doesnt run excessively hot which is helped by the provided heat sink.

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確かに早いですが、主にdata 整理に使用するにはoverspecです。でも気にはいっています。