CONCLUSION

    When I first heard that Crucial was introducing a new Gen5 SSD line with the name T705 a few months back I initially thought I heard wrong and that its name was T750. Well, in the end it wasn’t and judging by today’s results it does make sense that Crucial didn’t distance the name a lot. In all honesty even the original T700 did great (leaving out heavy workloads of course under which even the large heatsink couldn’t cope with temperatures) and if we consider the capabilities of the PHISON E26 controller I never did expect a huge boost in speeds, regardless of what NAND flash was used. This effectively means that I just don’t see any gains (real world ones) by moving from the T700 to the T705. Even in benchmarks these two drives trade blows so I’d only recommend moving to the T705 if you don’t already own an T700 drive. Also worth pointing out is that the T705 2TB did manage to pass one of my SNIA IOMeter tests (unlike the T700) so my guess is that PHISON tweaked something in the firmware (v5101 for the T700 and v5111 for the T705 - that would also account for the reduced performance in some tests compared to the T700).

    As I type these lines the T705 Pro (heatsink) 2TB Gen5 SSD by Crucial retails for USD318.99 inside the USA (Amazon.com) and for 493.60Euros inside the EU (Amazon.de) a price tag which is very good, at least on the other side of the Atlantic. Overall there’s not much to say about the T705, it may not be a valid upgrade from the T700 but it does surpass even 14GB/s at some tests (so I guess it works as advertised) which is why it also gets the Golden Award.

PROS

- Quality
- Top Performance (Over 14000MB/s)
- Large Heatsink
- DirectStorage Improvements
- 5 Year Limited Warranty

CONS

- Price (EU)
- Temperatures (Alas Better Compared To The T700)