- Back to homepage
- Related articles
  Related articles

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.

A Closer Look Contd.

The top area of the drive is completely covered by a black plastic sticker, which holds the company logo and product name in the middle:

The back side of the drive does not contain other components, but we will find two other stickers, one of which notes the technical specs, the product code name, currently flashed firmware and more!

Removing the top sticker won’t void the warranty and does not contribute to additional cooling; with it out of the way, we will be able to take a closer look at the main ICs:

The in-house controller is also manufactured by Micron and holds the DM02A1 code name; it natively supports PCIe 4.0, TLC NAND, and comes with eight channels:

The 2TB version of the P5 Plus does come with 2GB of LPDDR4 cache for storing the mapping tables:

The two 3D TLC NAND Flash chips do come with 1TB of storage each and have 176 layers; due to its high-performance, the new IC can be successfully implemented in data centers, 5G applications, cloud, AI, intelligent edge and mobile:

No comments available.

All information and graphics contained in Madshrimps are sole property of the Madshrimps crew and may not be reproduced or copied in any manner without written permission from us.