Crucial T700 PCIe Gen 5 NVMe SSD Review

so Gen 5 drives are here and today I'm going to be checking out the t700 from crucial which is absolutely blustery and fast it has read speeds of up to 12 400 megabytes per second and write speeds of up to 11 800 megabytes per second it comes in three different capacities there's one two and four terabytes and again it comes both wet and without a heatsink in each of those capacities and has a five-year limited warranty so in this video I'm going to be unboxing the drive showing you how to install it and then we'll be doing some benchmarks [Music] thank you so I've got the two terabyte version that comes with the heatsink and this is a pretty beefy heatsink on the drive because the Gen 5 drives do run pretty hard so I'm now going to show you how to install the drive in the system the first thing to say is make sure your motherboard supports the Gen 5 drive or your Western your money and again look at the motherboard manual and find out which slot is your Gen 5 slot so for us it's this top slot here so the clue of the Gen 5 drives are going to run much harder than Gen 4 drives as this is the Gen 5 heat sink that as rock include with the motherboard it's got an actively cooled fan in it and it is absolutely massive so what I'm going to be doing is testing out the heatsink that comes with the drive the heatsink that's installed on the motherboard by default and then this actively called heatsink the C doesn't make any difference so first thing to do is remove the motherboard heatsink from our Gen 5 slot and is held on with two screws so we can then set our drive into the socket flatten it down and secure it with a screw from the motherboard box some other motherboards will have a little clip rather than screw you can use to secure your drive so when we first load up Windows and go to this PC our Gen 5 Drive won't be appearing that's normal whenever you install a new drive into the PC I've got our two gen 4 drives installed already so what we need to do is go down to the bottom and type in Disk Management and the create and format hard disk partitions will come up so we'll click on it when we do we're going to do this pop-up telling us we need to initialize our drive so we're going to click on OK and then if we scan down to find our drive it's going to show up initially as on allocated space so we need to do is right click on this and click new simple volume click next next and we want to change the letter of the drive we can do it from here from the pull down menu click next we can name our drive to what we want and then click next and finish okay and then if we head back to this PC we can see our drive is now appearing and we can add files to it so I pulled up hardware monitor and we can take a look at the temperatures of our three drives so this is our Gen 5 drive we can see at the moment it's idling there's nothing happening on it and it's setting at 39 degrees all right at a legend is where I've installed our operating system and it's currently running at 34 degrees so this drive is actually hotter with nothing happening on it compared to the operating system and over here we've got another Gen 4 drag which is sitting at a nice cool 26 degrees so you can compare the difference Gen 4 Drive album and nothing happening Gen 5 Drive idling with nothing happening there's quite a difference in the temperatures so what I'm going to do now is a crystal desk Mark Benchmark to see what speed the drive will actually run at I've selected our Gen 5 drive and importantly I'm going to be keeping a little look at the temperatures during the test okay so that's the Benchmark complete and actually we're pretty close to what the manufacturers say this drive should do the read speed is meant to be up to 12 400 and we're pretty close to that and our write speed is meant to be at 11 800. so it's pretty much doing what it should be doing and in terms of the temperatures the maximum temperatures hit during the test was 67 degrees so that's actually pretty good the heatsink is doing a good job for this fairly short test and the important numbers are 82 degrees and 90 degrees at 82 degrees the drive will start to Thermal throttle at a 90 degrees the drive will shut down so that's why it's important crucial do recommend you have a good heatsink on the drive so I think to put the numbers here into contacts and also the temperature in the context I'm going to repeat the test with one of our Gen 4 drives okay so that's the Benchmark complete if I bring up our previous results with the Gen 5 drive we can see that our sequential Rave speeds are significantly slower the Gen 5 Drive was 1.9 times quicker and look at our write speeds it's even quicker here by three times so when our sequential with and write speeds are really impressive the random speeds aren't quite as impressive and in fact when we compare the random read write speeds the Gen 4 Drive is actually the winner take a look at the temperatures we can see that our Drive reached a maximum of only 38 degrees this has been cooled by the standard motherboard heatsink so while the benchmarks are useful the next thing you want to do is some real world testing to see how much of a benefit we get from this Gen 5 drive so I plugged in my external USB drive it's a Samsung T5 drive and this is where I normally record directly onto for my Blackmagic pocket Cinema Camera 4K when I'm making a video so I've got my video files and I've also got some audio files as well as a few additional files for making this project so what I'm going to do is select all the files we're going to copy those and then we'll paste them on to the T5 Drive so I'm not expecting a big Improvement in terms of speed because I think the bottleneck here is actually going to be the T5 drive but what I'm actually interested in is what the temperature is over a more prolonged use of the drive okay so that's all our files transferred over speedwise it was exactly the same as what I was getting transferring fans to my Gen 4 drive because as I mentioned the bottleneck is not the Gen 4 drive it's the external SSD that I'm using and in terms of our temperatures maximum temperature during the transfer test which took around about 15 minutes was 64 degrees so well away from the thermal throttling limit of 82 degrees with the included heatsink so now what I want to do is copy all the files from the crystal drive to the Gen 4 drive to see what sort of speeds we're getting so obviously we're going to be limited by the speed of the Gen 4 drive because I only got one Gen 5 Drive in the system okay so that's all our files transferred over the maximum temperature here was 62 degrees so the most we've got is 64 and transferring files so well below the thermal throttling limit in terms of speed I didn't get really any advantage in speed compared to using two gen 4 drives because the Gen 4 Drive is the bottleneck so what we have now we've got exactly the same finals on a Gen 4 and a Gen 5 Drive which is perfect because we can test the video editing performance so that's the video rendered it's about a 22 minute video and Blackmagic raw and it took 4 minutes and 52 seconds to render the 4K video so the first time I ran it out all the files saved on one gen 4 drive and wrote the files to another and the second time I used the same drive for both reading the files and writing the files to and interestingly there was no difference at all which is going to be quite useful because I've got all the files saved on our Gen 5 drive and I'm also going to be writing to our Gen 5 drive to see is it any quicker in terms of our temperatures the maximum temperatures for our Gen 4 drives were 36 and 41 during that process and we can see our Gen 5 Drive is running at 48. so what I'm going to do is open the exactly the same project I've got saved in gen 5. we're going to export it this time to the Gen 5 drive as well and I'm going to use exactly the same settings I did the last time okay so that's our video rendered and disappointly the time is exactly the same with all the files on the Gen 5 drive and right into the Gen 5 comparing to have an exactly the same project with all the files on the Gen 4 drive and writing into the Gen4 drive so that is a little bit disappointing in terms of our temperatures they're nothing scary the maximum the drive reached during the test was 55 degrees so it really seems to be the benchmarks are actually giving us the highest speeds and as well the highest temperatures but real world use of the drive the temperature seem well controlled by the included heatsink so I was really quite surprised with the video edited results but this was an area I was really expecting the Gen 5 drive to shine after racking my brain as to why this could be the only thing I came up with was that actually I wasn't really pushing DaVinci Resolve hard enough with the finals I was using are the way I was exporting the project so the way to push things a little bit further was to run the Puget Benchmark for DaVinci Resolve which is quite an extreme test it looks at a whole variety of different media up to 8K and takes about 20 minutes to complete the test so that's exactly what I did now because I wanted just to run this on the Gen 5 Drive I did a clean install of Windows on the Gen 5 Drive removed all the other drives from the system so there was only the one drive the Gen 5 Drive in the system when I ran the Benchmark so there was the full extended Benchmark that I ran on our overall score was 2068 and during that test like I say it was about 20 minutes long the maximum temperature that we got on the drive was 55 degrees with the standard motherboard heatsink in place and we take a look at our full results and I also ran this on the Gen 4 drive with it being the only drive installed in the system so comparing the results there was actually a slight benefit with the Gen 5 drive now so we had a 1.6 improvement in our extended overall score Anna in terms of the standard overall score it went up by two percent we can see there was a slight bump in our 4K media score the 8km media score remained on changed and again also a slight bump in the GPU effects and the fusion score so I'll put the Raw results up on the screen so you can pause the video if you want to take a closer look at them so I am Keen to show you the difference between the different types of heatsink but with the previous Crystal desk smart test we didn't really get the temperatures off the SSD pushed up enough to be able to compare the differences so I'm going to run it again I'm probably going to run it in a Serial Loop but disabled we can get the temperature up to but to make it more realistic I've got currently either 64 running where we're just stressing the GPU and our GP is running at a hundred percent and that's going to be putting quite a bit of heat around the SSD and it's probably a more realistic test with other components in the system being stressed I'm not stressing the CPU because I don't want the effect the running off the benchmark so we'll go ahead and start the crystal desk Mark and we'll probably run it in a series of Loops to see how many it takes to get this up towards its maximum temperature okay that's the first run over I'm just going to get straight into a second run we're up at 72 degrees and we'll get straight into the Third Run okay so that's the third run completed in terms of the performance numbers they're down price slightly from our first run but not significantly and the maximum temperature we've reached is 80 degrees I'll head over to that 64 stability test you can see the trend that we had in terms of the temperatures so what I'm going to deny is let the dry cool down a little bit and then we'll change the heat sink so in terms of removing heatsink with two screws in the top and two in the bottom and then we can sort of prying the heat second part slightly and the middle bit is going to come out and then we can remove our Drive so if you do buy the heatsink version of the drive it's not a good idea to remove it and you can see this thermal material we've got on the back which is broken up into lots of little pieces and I had to give this a good clean to get it all off the drive itself so I'm not simply going to be able to put this back on so unless you have all the right materials to put it back together it's probably not a good idea to take it apart but I'm doing this today to see which of the heat sinks is actually better so you'll know which version of the drive to go for and I'm going to start off with the standard motherboard heatsink and if you're using it from New there'll be some plastic protection on the back of the heat pad on the back that you're going to need to remove foreign so we'll go ahead and run the three rounds of Crystal desk Mark again and see what the temperature gets up to okay so that's the third run completed and the maximum temperature we've got to is 75. I'll give you a quick look at the temperature Trends in either 64. so with that actually that's much better than the 80 degrees we were getting with the heatsink that came with the SSD so I think the lesson from this provided you've got a decent motherboard heatsink in place you don't need to pay the extra for the additional heatsink but it is important to say this is a really premium motherboard that I have and it's a really nice heatsink that I have on it so cheaper motherboards might not do a good job as this so let's take it to the next level we'll let the SSD cool dine and then we'll go for the really beefy heatsink so I have not used this heatsink before so I can remove the plastic protection from the heat pad and then we can line it up with the SSD so as I've said this is an actively killed heatsink so we're going to need to plug the fan into a header on the motherboard and then we can just tuck the excess cable to the back of the case okay heading over to your motherboard bias our heatsink is plugged into chassis fan number six and we can see the revs per minute here if we head down to the settings we'll change it over to pwm mode it's currently running The Silo profile and let's run standard mode unfortunately we have an option to change it to run off the SSD temperatures the choice between motherboard and CPU so for the purpose of this test because we are going to be constantly stressed in the drive I'm just going to run it at a 100 percent it will be quite noisy and you wouldn't do it but it's going to give us a good example of just how good a job this hits and can do when it's turned up and really there should be an option in the motherboard bias here to run this off the SSD temperature so we'll run it at fill speed okay so that's either 64 up and running we're currently stressing our GPU so let's go ahead and start the crystal desk Mark benchmarks okay so that's the end of the Third Run and the temperatures are incredibly impressive we had a maximum of 67 if we show you the idea 64 stability results it's actually a pretty straight trash going up when they were doing each of the tests and dropping down again but it's not going up with each graph like the previous tests did so this shows you that the activity called heatsink it does an absolutely brilliant job it was eight degrees better at the end compared to the standard motherboard heatsink and 13 degrees better than the heatsink that comes with the SSD so if you were doing lots of really long high intensity tasks getting an actively killed heatsink is a good idea you're not going to get the same temperature results if unless you run the fan at 100 which I wouldn't recommend doing because it is very noisy okay final thing to test and don't try this one at home I've removed the 8 sync from the SSD altogether so it's currently in the PC without any heatsink on it and Crystal do not recommend you do this they say you need a heatsink on it to get the optimum performance but our Drive should thermal throttle and thermal shut down before it develops any harm so hopefully I'm not going to damage the hardware by doing this so let's head into either 64. and you can see since I've removed the heatsink that the temperature has already started to rise without any activity on the drive at all so let's go ahead and see what happens when we run a crystal disc mark and I think this time actually I'm going to leave the Ida 64 open as well Okay so we've got everything open on the screen so we're already jumping up to 84 where our Drive should be starting to Thermal throttle above 82. so we're going to probably notice our results are going to start to go down and this is actually we can see just the fourth pass that we have done and look where the driver shut down to 32 degrees so I'm just going to stop this and restart it again it looks like our Benchmark had Frozen so let's try again okay so let's try that again so we can see in the second time we're getting significant thermal throttling now our Spades are probably about half of what they were before the 32 degrees here is probably not accurate and over here we're getting temperatures currently at 84 degrees and above 82 will thermal throttle and will thermal shut down after 90 degrees so I'm actually going to go ahead and stop The Benchmark here I don't think there's any need to stress the drive any further we could see really really quickly at thermal throttles and the performance drops to around about half okay so time to sum up on the crucial t700 so in terms of the benchmarks are really really impressive drive it was 1.9 times as fast as the Gen 4 SSD I tested against in terms of read speeds and three times as fast in terms of write speeds so absolutely incredible potential the reset issue for me in terms of real use for the drive I didn't get really any significant benefits in terms of what I use it for um in terms of video editing copying large files there was other bottlenecks in the system in terms of either Hardware software that meant I wasn't able to get the Full Potential from the drive in terms of gaming looking at other people's benchmarks something I didn't test today you may have been saving one to two seconds in your game load times and even with direct storage there wasn't really massive benefits at the moment so I think there's absolutely brilliant potential with this drive going forward and certainly but the drag stories in gaming and but at the moment it's not going to offer significant benefits over a Gen 4 Drive unless you're running benchmarks all day in terms of the temperatures this was certainly something I was quite worried about when I was getting all the motherboards with a really beefy heatsinks and actively killed heatsinks but provided you've got a heatsink on the drive you don't really need to worry about it I couldn't get this drive to Thermal throttle with any sort of heatsink on it so if you don't have a decent heatsink on your motherboard pick up the version with the heatsink if you do have a decent heatsink you can probably save yourself a little bit of money and get the version without the heatsink so looking forward to getting this into a few of the bills going forward and like I say I imagine as time goes on we're going to be getting more and more benefits from the speed that this drive can offer us so hope you have enjoyed this video if you have please remember to give me a thumbs up and if you're not currently subscribed to the Channel please hit the Subscribe Button as well thanks for watching [Music]

Channel: Christopher Flannigan

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Length: 20min 2sec (1202 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 28 2023