Let me introduce to you the Crucial P5 NVMe SSD from the major manufacturer Micron. Unboxing and actual testing. In this era where SSDs are becoming more and more popular, M.2 SSD has become the first choice for computer system disks. Smaller size and larger storage space are the advantages of M.2 SSD. However, the decisive key lies in the faster and faster transmission speed, so PCIe Gen 3 In the x4 generation, how to achieve the fastest transmission speed is the development goal of every manufacturer. The traditional major manufacturer Micron has always been a steady and steady style. Finally, it has recently launched the high-end P5 of the Crucial P series, which has 3400 MB/s sequential reading and 3000 MB/s sequential writing. Today let us take a look at this P5 NVMe SSD, which is currently Crucial’s highest speed.
Crucial P5 NVMe SSD Easy unboxing
P series products have consistent outer packaging.
The contents include an instruction manual and a Crucial P5 NVMe SSD.
This time on the label, the relevant information sticker is placed on the back, and no parts are welded on the back, indicating that the Crucial P5 is a single-sided fabric design, and its thinness can improve compatibility, such as being installed in ultra-thin notebook computers with limited space.
On the front part, there is a black sticker marked P5.
After peeling off the sticker, you can see that the 1TB version is equipped with two NW969 Micron 96-Layer 3D NAND TLC particles.
As for the cache memory, the 1TB version uses Micron’s D9ZCM 1GB LPDDR4. Different memory capacities are used depending on the capacity.
The main control chip also uses Micron’s DM01B2 controller.
Crucial P5 NVMe SSD actual test on computer
First, let’s use CrystalDiskInfo to check the relevant information of this Crucial P5 NVMe SSD. It uses the PCIe 3.0 x4 channel. Therefore, if the M.2 on the motherboard does not use PCIe 3.0 x4, it may not be able to maximize the performance of the Crucial P5 NVMe SSD.
For the actual measurement part, we first conducted a read and write test with CrystalDiskMark. The read speed was 3529 MB/s and the write speed was 2898.8 MB/s. It is a very fast read and write speed. The read speed even exceeded the official data.
Then ATTO Disk Benchmark was used for reading and writing tests. The reading speed was up to 3314 MB/s and the writing speed was up to 2843 MB/s.
Then use TxBENCH to perform a read and write test. The read speed is 3426.1 MB/s and the write speed is 3212.2 MB/s.
In the Disk Benchmark of AIDA64, we used linear reading for testing. We can see that the P5 NVMe SSD maintains a very stable reading speed of around 3000 MB/s. The full magnetic zone test lasted 21 minutes, and the average reading speed was 2928.4 MB/s.
Finally, AS SSD Benchmark was used for testing. The read and write speeds were 2888.88 MB/s and 2535.52 MB/s, with a comprehensive score of 5131. This score is more than double that of our own P1 NVMe SSD.
Crucial P5 NVMe SSD practical test
In this practical test, we mainly make a comparison based on the conversion speed. We divide the target into two parts. One is a video of more than 10 minutes with an average traffic of 20 Mbps, which is divided into P5 NVMe SSD, SATA SSD and traditional HDD. The comparison of the conversion speed. First, the material placed in the HDD is converted to HDD, and the conversion speed is 1 minute and 26 seconds.
The same materials and the same actions were put into SATA SSD for conversion, and the time was shortened to 1 minute and 01 seconds.
Finally, we come to our protagonist today, the P5 NVMe SSD. The same steps were performed and the time spent was exactly 1 minute. Compared with the SATA SSD, it was one second faster. It seems that its power is not obvious. The main reason is that the traffic of the original file is not large, so there is no difference in the reading speed of the SATA SSD and the NVMe SSD.
Therefore, we enlarged the converted material. We selected a nearly 2-minute 8K H.265 video (S21 shooting file) and converted it into an H.264 8K video, so that the difference seems to be visible. The first is the performance of the HDD, but this time we directly list the conversion information. We can see that the conversion time running on the HDD is 30 minutes and 27 seconds, which is quite long.
If the same steps are put into SATA SSD, it will take 11 minutes and 14 seconds.
Finally, there is the performance of P5 NVMe SSD. The time is shortened to 9 minutes and 35 seconds. Therefore, it can be found that when the file traffic is larger, the powerful performance of P5 NVMe SSD can be exerted.
Summarize
Nowadays, M.2 SSD is becoming more and more popular, and with more and more choices, how to choose a high-speed and stable SSD is a problem, and today we tested the P5 NVMe SSD has excellent performance both in terms of speed and stability, especially in terms of durability. The 1TB version has a read and write life of 600TBW, and comes with its own five-year warranty, plus many advanced features that are invisible on the surface, but actually have many advanced features, including dynamic write acceleration, independent fault-tolerant array, multi-step data integrity algorithm, overheating protection, etc. These are actually invisible and secretly protect the security of computer data. Micron quality is absolutely reliable! It can be said that it is a very good product worth recommending, and I recommend it to everyone.
Source: KOCPC Chinese