Key review T710 2 TB NVME SSD

Right, let me explain here. T710 Crucial is undoubtedly an attack on the majesty, which is WDSN8100 Sandisk. Undoubtedly, this disk is the best SSD PCIe 5.0 SSD and has been for several months. Certainly in terms of performance. But no crown can remain intact forever, and the key is to arouse a few feathers caused by an electron, trying to pull out a red carpet from Sandisk. This is the best micron can get now, I have no doubt.

For those who do not know, the Consumer -oriented brand is actually crucial. Micron, a massive American memory producer. This gives a clear advantage over competitors, because it can simply utilize his own Nand Flash in the production of his drives. This means that he can not only reserve his best technology in the field of OEM and ready solutions, but there is no intermediary or NAND manufacturer, not gaining profits, before the drive hit the shelves, what he can do. I will explain why a little.

As for the equipment page. At first glance, at least on the surface, there is no huge difference between the T710 and his rival SN8100. The Phison Controller line was completely abandoned and, like many others in the arena, instead of the anointed son of SM2508 PCIE 5.0, the SM2508 PCIE 5.0 controller was chosen. Everything to apply for the crown of Crucial as the king of the SSD hill.

This controller is, of course, the same grafting the header of the unit that recently littered all kinds of disks. From the bivine of the X570 Pro after Acer’s Predator GM9000, among many, many others. It is complete with an eight -channel construction operating at 3600 Mt/S, which caused Cortex architecture, built at the 6 Nm TSMC production process. A dedicated Dram cache appears with this, using LPDDR4 @ 4266 MT/S. And it is not snail-paced, or at least, at least not when it is combined with the right NAND.

And this is of course the biggest difference. Micron took off the gloves and connected them with his reserved 276-layer 3D TLC NAND to really utilize this controller as much as possible. It is the strongest, fastest NAND so far, with an extremely diminutive trace, and far, like its own 232-layer, found on the key T705 and T700, these debut discs PCIe 5.0 from the past.

It all sounds very promising, and in the world of marketing more, more is better, as we know well. Certainly compared to the 218-layer BICS8 NAND found in the SN8100. But the way these two technologies work is very different from each other.

Although Nand Micron really contains more effectively arranged vertical layers, giving it a greater density up and a smaller trace that the 218-layer BICS8 NAND Sandisk has fingertips than its Joint Venture with Kixia, it has an apparently a much more effective system, but it is done not only by a vertical workshop, but also completing, reducing the need for vertical.

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This 218-layer NAND effectively has a completely different architectural philosophy, called CBA or CMO directly related to the arrayWhen he separates CMO used for each cellular waffle in the production process, and then connect them later separately. This allows you to produce each component in the best possible conditions for this part, and then effectively “welded” together, instead of having a CMOS component under each nand waffle in one pass. These are clever things.

What it leads to are two disks that seriously cross the boundaries of the PCIe 5.0 standard. T710 Absolutely monsters via our comparative apartment, from 14 145 Mb/s for reading and 13,181 Mb/SW record. When it comes to random 4K results, it also puts a good show with 104 Mb/s for reading and 354 Mb/s on the record. Both really good numbers. In fact, this 4K recording speed is the fastest I have seen so far. But there is a problem. The 4K read speed (probably more significant number of players) is still slower due to a good 14 Mb/SW comparison to the SN8100, and these sequential numbers fall on average about 5 to 6%.

Pc gamer test bench
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9900X | ARIES: 64 GB (2x32GB) Team group T-Create Expert DDR5 @ 6000 C34 | GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 Super | Motherboard: ASUS ROG STRIX X870E-E Gaming WiFi/NZXT N9 X870E | CUP COOLER: Asus Rog Rejujin III 360 Argb Extreme | Dog: 1200W NZXT C1200 (2024) 80+ Gold | Chassis: Geometric future model 5

No wonder that it also translates into a game, and although T710 has put a substantial effort, with a final result of 6.834 seconds for the final fantasy (still stupidly speedy, let’s be clear), not beating SN8100 in staggering 6.509 seconds. These numbers also translate into a 3DMark storage bench, with a colossal win for the SN8100 (mainly at the back of a long -writing delay).

However, the T710 has one edge and this is a temperature. Even with an increased environment of the environment by about 6 degrees, it was 5 degrees cooler than the SN8100 in the same test conditions. At least impressive.

So the results are impressive, much better than the T705 and T700, and retains its own admirable against SN8100 (even if it falls a bit in some areas), but is this diminutive SSD really worth it? Yes. Of course, for one reason and only one reason.

Daradly reduces the price of these drives and quickly. Like Sandisk, Micron has this internal NAND advantage, and therefore can actively compete on the price front. Speaking from a perspective, at the moment 2 TB SN8100 is 230 USD, exactly the same price as T710. During the premiere, when I checked it, it was 280 USD. This is 50 USD, or 22%, price drop within less than a dozen weeks. Because flagship prices are falling, everything else – PCIE 5.0, 4.0, a huge mass warehouse, budget disks, you call it – they must lose it, and this is phenomenal. So well done, crucial; What a hell you placed.