Crucial teases their T700 PCIe 5.0 SSD – 12+ GB/s Performance

Crucial boasts 12+ GB/s speeds with their upcoming T700 PCIe 5.0 SSD

Through Linus Tech Tips, Crucial has revealed their upcoming T700 PCIe 5.0 SSD, a M.2 storage solution that offers users sequential read speeds in excess of 12GB/s and write speeds of over 11.8 GB/s. 

Crucial’s T700 SSD has been shown with Micron 3D NAND and a Phison PS5026-E26 SSD controller, and the image that Linus Tech Tips has provided shows that this new Crucial SSD ships with a heatsink.

Based on the Crystal Disk Mark benchmark results below, Crucial’s planned T700 SSD is roughly two times faster than their PCIe 4.0 based P5 Plus SSD, delivering a huge generational leap in SSD performance for Crucial. Sadly. The pricing and availablilty of Crucial’s new T700 SSD remains unknown, though it is likely that Crucial will make an official announcement for this SSD soon. 

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