12,400 MB/s sequential read, 11,800 MB/s write
Crucial has taken the Phison PS5026-E26 controller even further than other PCIe 5.0 drives, delivering the blazing fast read and write speeds advertised. I also achieved this without active cooling. You can buy the Crucial T700 with a heatsink or without a heatsink, as the M.2 cooler that comes with the motherboard can handle the heat well. TweakTown didn’t directly measure how hot the drive gets at full load, but our tests showed no signs of throttling, so it looks like you’ll be fine without the fan.
Benchmarks show that the T700 sits at the top of nearly every chart, proving that Crucial’s PR guys aren’t exaggerating the numbers. Not only are they often a few percentage points faster than their competitors, they are clearly outperforming them and breaking records. This drive performs slightly better on the Intel platform than our AMD testbed, but either way, you’ll want to get one of if not the fastest consumer SSDs available today. will be
Check out the full Crucial T700 performance results here.
