CONCLUSION

   As you can all easily see from the charts the 1TB variant of the P5 Plus exchanges blows with its larger brother, the 2TB model. Unlike other models I’ve tested however i was genuinely surprised to see that their “win/lose” ratio was almost at 50% (from a quick count i did of all tests) so performance levels are actually almost identical, at least for the most part. With that out of the way not much i can say about the P5 Plus, with performance numbers surpassing 4500MB/s for both reads and writes (in synthetic benchmarks) it’s certainly far from the fastest PCIe 4.0 Gen4 M.2 NVMe line out there but again should be more than sufficient for the majority of users out there.

   At the time of this review the P5 Plus 1TB PCIe 4.0 (Gen4) M.2 NVMe SSD by Crucial retails for USD134.99 inside the USA (Amazon.com) and for 136.89Euros inside the EU (Amazon.de) a price tag which is actually reduced compared to the when i reviewed the 2TB variant (the price of that is also reduced). In turn this makes the P5 Plus 1TB a more attractive choice right now and since it also offers good performance levels together with good durability numbers it too deserves the Golden Award.

PROS

- Good Performance (Up to 6000MB/s Read & 5000MB/s Write)
- Endurance / Durability (600TBW / 2 Million Hours MTTF)
- 5 Year Limited Warranty
- Price (For Some)

CONS

- Thermal Throttling (During Our SNIA Tests)
- Available Capacities (2TB Max)