Raising the bar at the start of 2024, Crucial T705 ushered in supremely fast PCIe Gen 5 SSD speeds up to 14.5GB/s. The only problem was that it cost a pretty penny for the pleasure, but that’s nothing a good discount can’t fix. With up to 41% off the heatsink and bare models, the drive is cheaper than ever in some regions.
Blighty gets the best bargains, as the 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB Crucial T705 models all undercut their Black Friday deals on Amazon. You’ll need to go naked with the base capacity, as 1TB runs for just £169. Meanwhile, 2TB and 4TB heatsink variants sit just above £300 and £510, respectively, saving you around £60.
Crucial T705 (2TB)
With cutting-edge 232-layer NAND, T705 gives you an edge in gaming performance and content creation workloads.
Folks across the Atlantic have slimmer pickings but the 2TB limited edition white heatsink is a sight for sore eyes at nearly half price. Click on the button above to check out the reductions in your region.
Putting Crucial T705 through its paces in my review, CrystalDiskMark showed the 2TB model fulfils its lofty 14,500MB/s sequential read and 12,700MB/s sequential write speed promises. Since there’s only 900MB/s in it between this and the read speeds on other capacities, you can’t go wrong no matter how much storage you need.
| Crucial T705 | |
|---|---|
| Seq. read speed | 14,100MB/s (4TB) 14,500MB/s (2TB) 13,600MB/s (1TB) |
| Seq. write speed | 12,600MB/s (4TB) 12,700MB/s (2TB) 10,200MB/s (1TB) |
| DRAM cache | 4GB (4TB) 2GB (2TB) 1GB (1TB) |
| NAND flash | TLC |
| Controller | Phison PS5026-E26 |
| Endurance | 2,400TBW (4TB) 1,200TBW (2TB) 600TBW (1TB) |
| Warranty | Five years |
Gen 5 drives have a tendency to run a little toasty considering transfer rates are double that of Gen 4, so keep in mind that cooling is important. The passive heatsink model certainly goes some way to keeping temps down, but you might want to consider something active if you plan to push it to its absolute limits.
Designed with quality components in mind, the Phison PS5026-E26 controller underneath affords the drives industry-leading endurance at up to 2,400TBW (terabytes written). Paired with TLC NAND flash and DRAM caches that increase in size alongside capacity, and there are few devices out there that can do the same dance as T705.
Some of these discounts are listed as limited-time deals, so don’t hang around deliberating for too long. You can always rely on the safety net of Amazon’s extended return window giving you until January 31 to send it back for a full refund if you’re not happy. After that, there’s a five-year warranty to comfort your SSD sitting in your system as snug as bug without issue.
