If you’re building or upgrading a system that rocks PCIe Gen5, you’ll need storage that can actually take advantage of the bandwidth such a platform provides. That’s where Crucial’s T700 2TB Gen5 NVMe drive comes in, as right now it is priced the lowest it has ever been, making it an excellent buy (purchase link under the specs table down below).
The T700 is built on Micron’s 232‑layer NAND technology, which is the company’s most advanced flash memory to date. The NAND is TLC, or triple-level cell, making it a high-endurance product. So you will not have to worry about longer read and write times. Speaking of reads, random access times are excellent on this model thanks to its dedicated DRAM cache.
Another feature worth noting is support for Microsoft DirectStorage and GPU decompression. In practice, that means game assets and high‑resolution textures can be streamed directly to the graphics card with less CPU involvement. Thus, the user should experience shorter load times and fewer stutters and jitters when gaming.
The technical specifications of the Crucial T700 2TB are given below:
| Specification | Value |
|---|---|
| Form factor | M.2 2280 (double-sided) |
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x4 |
| Protocol | NVMe 2.0 |
| Controller | Phison PS5026-E26 |
| NAND | Micron 232-layer TLC |
| DRAM cache | LPDDR4, 4 GB |
| SLC write cache | Approx. 320 GB (dynamic) |
| Sequential read | Up to 12,000 MB/s |
| Sequential write | Up to 11,000 MB/s |
| Random read | Up to 1,500,000 IOPS |
| Random write | Up to 1,200,000 IOPS |
| Endurance (TBW) | 1200 TBW |
Get it at the link:
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Crucial T700 2TB Gen5 NVMe M.2 SSD with Heatsink - CT2000T700SSD5: $181.99 (Sold and Shipped by Amazon US)
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