Incredibly fast storage, ushering in the PCIe 5.0 era

The Crucial T700 Gen 5 SSD has shown itself to be an excellent introduction to anyone wanting to move to Gen 5 solid state storage. Its performance highs of 12.5GB/s throughput and over 1.5 million read and write IOPS are the best we have encountered for a single storage medium, much less anything the size of a stick of gum and weighing 10 grams.

The BX500 is definitely a great choice when upgrading, or building a lightly used system, for example for your parents, or when focusing on productivity and Internet browsing; scenarios that require mostly disk reads, which the BX500 will handle with ease.

Crucial’s new BX500 series still relies on Micron 2nd Generation TLC 64 layer 3D V-NAND and made a really great budget SSD...