Crucial T700 1TB Gen5 NVMe M.2 SSD with Heatsink - Up to 11,700 MB/s - DirectStorage Enabled - CT1000T700SSD5 - Gaming, Photography, Video Editing & Design - Internal Solid State Drive

Absolutely love this product! The quality is top-notch, and it feels like it’s built to last. It’s proven extremely reliable so far, running smoothly without any hiccups. It also looks great—sleek and well-designed, definitely a nice addition to my setup. I've experienced a zero crash rate, which is impressive and speaks to the stability of the product. Every function works exactly as expected, and it delivers on all its promises. Best of all, the installation was a breeze—super straightforward with clear instructions. Easily a 5-star purchase!

As a computer MSP, we build high-end computers. The speeds this provides are unmatched so far.

I have bought several of these, no failures They are fast and reliable so far. I consistently get 12GB/s on read with Crystal Disk Mark. As I expected, they require a heat sink to prevent throttling (and they throttle under heavy write loads even with a heat sink). I didn't try active cooling, but if I were going to use these in a mainly heavy load situation, I probably would.

Fast - I use two with RAID 0 and up to maybe 2600mbps Thunderbolt 3 speed. Has held up under pretty constant use and still performing without any problems.

I purchased a new computer and it only came with a single 1TB SSD.. Considering I'm a massive gamer I knew immediately it was going to be an issue.. I settled on an External drive with a fair bit of memory 8 TB's and that filled my needs for a while, but I noticed that some games had stuttering and lag, which considering the specs on my system shouldn't have been happening.. RTX4090, 64 GB of ram, etc etc etc etc.. So I narrowed down the likely causes to the External HDD, so I knew I needed to remedy that situation asap..After searching around I settled on the Crucial T700,, highly rated, and reviewed.. The price is hefty but gaming isn't a cheap hobby, if you want to play like a pro, you gotta pay like a pro..The install was super easy, plug and play pretty much, the only issue arose from trying to format the drive for use.. after a half hour and numerous youtube videos I discovered that I had forgotten to name the drive, after feeling like an idiot, I had my harddrive installed and ready to roll..Download speeds have never been faster, I've always had issues with steam download times, normally stuff that my internet speeds should have done in minutes would take an hour or more, with the Crucial it's down to taking minutes again..I honestly couldn't be happier with this product.. If had another slot on my board I'd pick up another and never have to worry about uninstalling and installing games again.. Extremely happy with this purchase..

This is blazing fast if your motherboard supports PCI 5.0. A couple things to keep in mind, it has it's own heatsink. I think you probably can remove it and use your own but from what I read it is a good one and does the job, so I just used the built in one. At first I had some issues getting it to sit properly on my motherboard and then realized there was a layer of compound on the back of it, which this has one built in, so once I removed that it was fine. The only negative issue I have had is that I can't get the crucial software to set the over provisioning. It keeps telling me to do it manually in drive manager. I think it is worth the price, it is fast, but keep in mind on real world experience, if you already have an m.2 you are likely not to notice a ton of difference unless you are copying a large file, normal day to day use is similar, actually my Sabarent Rocket 4 had better random read write speeds. I posted that benchmark also. But if you want the latest cutting edge and fastest... this is your drive. I also used the EaseUS Partition Master to clone my windows 11 os with zero issues. Worked perfectly, entire system cloned in about 9 minutes. I can't recommend that software enough...

After 1 year of being installed the drive ran out blocks and is now no read only and will not boot to windows. For all the money I spent for the "top of the line" nvme drive the lifespan turning it into $400 of trash.My disappointment is deep because I can't afford to replacement and it means I am down 4 TB of space I could use and now my all in one solution is all in none.6 hours of research later I was able CLI into the drive to copy my bookmarks out of my user folder.Bottom line this is a disaster and a time sink. Never again!After 25 years in IT I have seen DOA devices so that is not what happened here. The drive just ate itself to death. This is fast but its lifespan is a lot to be desired. The drive is designed in a way that it will do this and do it rather quickly.

Fast NVME, over a year now still going strong. Great value. I would buy again.