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Crucial P5 Plus 2TB PCIe M.2 2280 PCIe 4.0 Gaming SSD Review

Storage/SSD by stefan @ 2022-02-06

The Crucial P5 Plus did impress us quite a bit in terms of performance and we were quite surprised that the controller remained at acceptable temperature levels even when writing continuously to the drive. You will have to expect the usual performance fluctuation when SLC gets filled up but in most usage scenario there won’t be any issues even when downloading very large games off Steam. Our tests were conducted inside a well-ventilated computer case but expect the situation to change if your enclosure does not feature active cooling or is installed inside a laptop.

Packaging, A Closer Look

After the high-performance P5 SSD which we have tested back in 2021 from Crucial, we were wondering what will come next…the company did not stay still and jumped directly to the PCIe 4.0 bandwagon with a new controller but also 176-layer TLC NAND, manufactured by its mother company, Micron. For the 2TB model, Crucial advertises the drive with insane read/write speeds, up to 6600MB/s reads and 5000MB/s writes, an SSD endurance of 1200TBW and a limited warranty of 5 years.

The product is offered inside a very compact packaging model, like the one we have seen with P1, P2 and regular P5. The frontal area does show the name of the drive but also the total storage space of the SKU:

On the back, we will note that a Data Transfer Software is available in order to move it from the slower drive to the new one, an Installation Guide will show how to proceed but also newer firmware versions can be downloaded from the online website:

After unsealing the box, we did find a transparent plastic mold, which holds the drive in place along with the rest of the bundle:

The written Installation Guide practically informs us of the online resources which can be accessed for more info:

The drive is also offered with a small fixing screw, in case you lost the one which came with the motherboard (PC/laptop/PS5 console):

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