The Crucial T700 will be the next PCIe Gen 5 SSD to ship. As we have seen in the few units of its type that have arrived so far, its price will not be as cheap as the current Gen4.
The new generation of solid state drives is being launched slowly and it is to be hoped that the solutions from the large storage manufacturers (WD, Samsung, Kingston, Kioxia…) will not be long in coming. At the moment, integrators such as GIGABYTE, Crucial or ADATA are the ones that have already announced their versions.
The Crucial T700 will be next. use the format M.2-2280 which is becoming the main and almost unique SSD due to its great advantages due to its compact size, which allows it to be installed on both desktops and laptops. use memories Micron TLC 232-layer NAND along with a controller we’ve already seen in Gen5s, the Phison E26.
It has support for the latest version of the NVMe protocol that makes them bootable and promises data transfer from 12,400 Mbytes per second in sequential reading and 11,800 Mbytes per second in writing. They have an endurance rating of up to 2400 TBW (Terabytes written) and the brand will grant five year warranty. It will be sold in versions without a heatsink and with it. You already know these units get pretty hot.
Crucial T700, versions and prices
The integrator has announced the launch for May 30, with availability on its website and we assume in the international retail channel. If Crucial is usually one of the cheapest Gen4 SSD manufacturers, for its debut in Gen5 prices go up a lot:
- 4TB – $599.99 (with heat sink $629.99)
- 2TB – $339.99 (with heat sink $369.99)
- 1TB – $179.99 (with heat sink $209.99)
