CONCLUSION

   Even though I was expecting the 4TB variant of the T700 (heatsink edition) to easily surpass its smaller capacity brother in reality both drives were exchanging blows throughout all my tests. In the end it’s safe to say that both drives perform roughly along the same lines which isn’t a bad thing since we’re talking about performance levels surpassing even 12.000MB/s in some tests. Of course, thermal issues are still a thing with heavy workloads which is why I skipped my regular SNIA tests altogether but for most usages that don’t require long and intense periods of reads and writes current Gen5 drives with heatsinks on them will probably never surpass 40 degrees Celsius (still with PCIe 6.0 not that far away I can’t help to wonder what issues related to temperatures manufacturers will face then).

   At the time of my review the 4TB variant of the T700 Pro Series (Heatsink) Gen5 M.2 NVMe SSD by Crucial retails for USD499.99 inside the USA (Amazon.com) and 478.84Euros inside the EU (Amazon.de). As expected, consumers looking for one of the best (if not the best currently) Gen5 SSDs in the market today are required to pay a premium over Gen4 models and that’s obviously fine. Overall, there’s not much I can say about the T700 Pro Series by Crucial that this review hasn’t already revealed. Performance is great, cooling thanks to the bundled heatsink is very good (again, during all my tests temperatures didn’t exceed 45 degrees Celsius for the 4TB model) and as for endurance levels with a TBW of 2400 for the 4TB variant well it doesn’t get better than this so the Golden Award is once again in order.

PROS

- Quality
- Top Performance (Over 12000MB/s)
- Large Heatsink (Cooling)
- DirectStorage Improvements
- Storage Executive Software
- 5 Year Limited Warranty

CONS

- Price (For Some)
- Temperatures (Heavy Workloads)