Crucial T705 with Heatsink

The Crucial T705 achieves the highest performance rating. This makes it the test winner. The passive heat sink works well in a well-ventilated case. The T705 is equipped for any task assigned to it.

The Crucial T705 achieves the highest performance rating. This makes it the test winner. The passive heat sink works well in a well-ventilated case. The T705 is equipped for any task assigned to it.

The test shows that speed costs money. If you already have a computer with a PCI Express 5.0 slot, the Crucial T705 is now the fastest PCI Express 5.0 SSD - at a hefty price of 460 euros. By contrast, the Kioxia Exceria Plus G3 is cheap for a PCI Express 4.0 SSD, but also lame. If you want more speed, you have to go for the more expensive Samsung 990 Pro.

The Crucial T705 differs from its predecessor, the T700, practically only in its faster memory. It is the first SSD to achieve a read speed of more than 14 GByte/s and to maintain this speed for longer. The comparatively small heat sink is sufficient to keep the components of the SSD below the throttle temperature of just over 80 °C...