The P5 SSD from Crucial is quite impressive for a mainstream drive in terms of performance and even if it integrates TLC NAND, it can sustain high transfer rates for longer versus the budget oriented P2. After exhausting the 93GB of SLC cache, the transfer rate will drop to about 285MB/s, which is still more than we have seen with mechanical drives of the same size (2.5’’).

In order to illustrate the write speed behavior, we have erased the partition from the drive and ran a full instance of the HD Tune Pro utility and the results are as follows:

While the 1TB drive can be found online for about 140 Euros, in case we need more storage space we can also aim for the 2TB model, which can be had for about 300 Euros. At the time of the review, the 1TB model has a better price per GB.

Crucial P5 1TB PCIe M.2 2280 SSD is Recommended for:

We would like to thank again to Crucial for making this review possible!