Crucial P5 SSD 1TB, M.2 2280 / M-Key / PCIe 3.0 x4

Die Crucial P5 SSD ist insgesamt ein solides Laufwerk, das durch seine durchgängige BestückungB mit Micron-KomponentenB (NAND, DRAM, Controller) besticht. Das Laufwerk erreicht die beworbenen Werte zwar nicht ganz, ist jedoch trotzdem ein sehr schneller Vertreter der PCIe 3.0 Generation.

Geht es in unserem Storage-Forum um Empfehlungen für SSDs, fällt meist auch der Name Crucial: Gerade die MX500 für SATA oder die P1 mit QLC-Speicher können sich in ihren Segmenten einer gewissen Beliebtheit erfreuen. Dabei steht bei beiden Laufwerken ein gutes Preisleistungsverhältnis im Fokus. Anders sieht es bislang bei der Empfehlung von HighEnd-SSDs aus. Hier fällt der Name Crucial eher selten, obwohl doch der Mutterkonzern Micron durchaus den Speicher für viele Top-Modelle produziert. Mit unserem heutigen Testkandidaten, der Crucial P5, soll sich das ändern. Wie gut das funktioniert, überprüfen wir wie immer mit unserem Benchmark-Parcours.

Crucial, who makes the MX500, our all-time favorite SATA SSD, has always been lagging behind the competition slightly when it comes to M.2 NVMe SSDs. Back in 2018, they released the QLC-based Crucial P1, which impresses with excellent price/performance, but can't compete with the various high-performance TLC offerings on the M.2 storage market. This changes with the Crucial P5, which is based on a completely new controller design that's been developed in-house at Micron, Crucial's parent company. The new controller, just called "DM01B2" for the lack of a better marketing name, is a modern 8-channel design with support for TLC and pseudo SLC caching. It also has full hardware-based encryption and reports data from two thermal sensors back to the host system—nearly all other M.2 NVMe SSDs only have one. As expected, the flash chips are provided by Micron. We've seen these 96-layer B27A 3D TLC chips on many SSDs before. Last but not least, 1 GB of fast DDR4-4266 provides storage for the SSD mapping tables, which helps with random write performance.

The Crucial P5 is the newest addition to the company’s SSD portfolio, featuring 3D NAND, the PCIe Gen 3 NVMe interface and capacities ranging from 150GB to 2TB. The P5 is the company’s higher-end consumer drive (compared to the more budget-friendly, entry-level Crucial P2) and is meant to compete with products like the Samsung EVO, as Crucial boasts the drive as extraordinary fast. Though it did perform well enough in a few areas, it fell a bit short overall with mostly uneven results.

At the end of the day the Crucial P5 1TB SSD is a solid-performing drive, but it fails to be the ‘extraordinary’ drive that Crucial markets it as being. Maybe the engineering team can work some magic with firmware tweaks down the road, but for now its just another mainstream NVMe drive. Legit Bottom Line: The Crucial P5 M.2 2280 NVMe SSDs is a super fast PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe drive, but comes to market late when enthusiasts are transitioning over to PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe SSDs!