The Crucial T700 PCIe 5.0, NVME SSD shattered all our data transfer records—color us impressed, and then some. If you have the required PCIe 5.0 M.2 slot and enough cash, it's the drive you want.

We hope the T700 enjoys its day in the sun, because even faster Gen 5 drives are in the works, expected to be rated at PCI Express 5.0's maximum theoretical read speed of 14,000MBps.

The Crucial T700 Pro is the fastest SSD we have tested to date. It's the inevitable future of storage technology, bringing any consumers that buy it now huge futureproofing benefits.

There's good and bad news there. The bad news is that PCIe Gen 5 SSDs are on the pricey side in the early going and we'd be surprised if the T700 was an exception. We'll have to wait and see.

Hardware storage ssd Crucial's T700 PCIe 5.0 SSD can throttle to HDD speeds without a cooler Go ahead and get that optional heatsink By Daniel Sims May 12, 2023 at 3:21 PM 18 comments ...