Here’s a great opportunity to upgrade your PC to a super-fast Gen 5 SSD for a bargain price, and with 2TB of storage space to boot. Right now, you can bag yourself a 2TB Crucial T705 for just $159.99, its cheapest ever price on Amazon. That’s a fantastic price for a drive that cost $399.99 when it launched last year. In fact, with this deal, a 2TB T705 only costs $5 more than the 1TB version.
Crucial T705
“Fuel your gaming, create at the speed of ideas, and power through AI applications with ease.” – Crucial
$198.95 $159.99
While it launched with a very high price, intense competition in the SSD market has forced down the cost of the T705. The 2TB drive normally hovers around the $200 mark, so you’re still getting a great deal at $159.99. You’ll need to be quick, though, as Amazon is listing it as a limited-time deal.
Making good use of the PCIe Gen 5 interface, the 2TB Crucial T705 offers a huge peak sequential read speed of 14,500MB/s, making it twice as fast as your average PCIe Gen 4 drive. Meanwhile, write speeds top out 12,700MB/s. When it comes to speed, the 2TB version of this drive is top dog. Comparatively, the 1TB and 4TB versions read at up to 13,600MB/s and 14,100MB/s respectively.
While the T705’s performance has since been superseded by the likes of the WD_Black SN8100 and Samsung 9100 Pro, there’s not a massive difference in pace, and upgrading to a T705 will still give you a massive speed boost over a Gen 4 drive if you do a lot of big file transfers. If you want to get the most out of this drive, you’ll need a motherboard with a 4x PCIe Gen 5 M.2 2280 SSD slot – it will still work in a Gen 4 slot, but you’ll only get half the maximum performance out of it.
Also, bear in mind that the 2TB T705 drive on offer is a bare PCB with no heatsink, and these PCIe 5.0 drives do run very hot when they get going, which can result in throttling. If your motherboard comes with a chunky heatsink designed especially for PCIe 5.0 drives, usually in the top slot, then that’s the one to use with this drive. Otherwise, you’ll want to get a hefty third-party model.
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