If the Korean giant Samsung held the advanced EVO series drives in special esteem, and everything else remained in the background, then Crucial took a completely different route to winning the hearts of customers. The company's first hits were budget drives from the BX and MX series. With the spread of the M.2 format, they released a pack of fast, high-quality and affordable Crucial P series SSDs with a PCI-E 4.0 interface, but most of these were entry-level and mid-level models. And so in 2023, the company decided to make a level-up by launching a completely atypical line of super-hyper-mega-fast drives from the T series, which can surprise even seasoned enthusiasts.


For example, the T700 drive, introduced in the summer of 2023, according to Micron representatives, the drive is the fastest SSD on the planet. Or even throughout the entire galaxy. Its maximum write speed reaches 11,800 MB/s, while the linear write speed version falls just short of 13,000 MB/s. The creators talk about a two-fold superiority of SSDs with a PCI-E 4.0 interface and a 22-fold superiority over old-school SSDs with a SATA interface. The main reason for this rise is the fifth generation PCI-E interface, the next generation control controller and high-quality 232-layer memory.

Crucial T700 NVMe drives typically use the Phison platform and multi-layer 3D NAND TLC memory from Micron Technology, which owns the Crucial brand. All T-series SSDs are available in 1, 2 and 4 TB versions. There were rumors about an 8 TB model, but apparently it’s difficult to implement so far. The performance level when working with random blocks reaches 1.5 million IOPS. Hand in hand with high speed comes serious reliability: for the top 4 TB models, an impressive TBW of 2400 TB is declared, plus all representatives of this series are equipped with a 5-year warranty from the manufacturer. For owners of modern motherboards with pre-installed M.2 heatsinks, the manufacturer produces “bare” modifications without any heat sinks.