Crucial T705 2TB SSD PCIe Gen5 NVMe M.2 Limited Edition Internal Gaming SSD with Premium White Heatsink, Up to 14,500MB/s, PCIe 4.0 Backwards Compatible, Solid State Drive - CT2000T705SSD5A

I picked this up at a good price from Amazon resale. I didn't really want to spend too much on one like it and the offer was good enough for me to take a risk on a possibly second hand or fake item. Its a 1TB Gen5 M.2 SSD but my laptop can only perform up to Gen3. This should mean that this will still work but at a reduced performance, it won't generate the usual crazy amount of heat and then suffer throttling and then it also means that I have paid a reduced price for a part that will relevant in the future for many years to come. Delivery took a few days and what was received was a slightly out of shape box with the seal re-taped. The product itself looked brand new and I did as much physical and system tests to confirm that it was genuine. Everything points towards it being a genuine product. It is working fine and has given my old laptop a massive performance boost. So if for some reason the Crucial verification app was fooled, I have still gained a high performing SSD. The operating hours on it was basically zero if I remember correctly. I got this to extend the life of my old Asus ROG Strix GL702V gaming laptop. It is around 10 years old and Windows 11 doesn't officially want to work with it but you can still make it happen. The old HDD on it is still in good health and I recently doubled the RAM to 32GB but with all the modern software doing their thing, the start up process on it was really stretched out with full access being available after around 20 minutes but the HDD continuing to run at 100% for close to an hour. After installing the SSD, Fastboot to sign on is very quick and after signing on, I have full access to windows in less than 5 seconds and the SSD does what it needs to in the background with a percentage rate that I can't accurately remember but it was lower than 20%. This one thing has really changed the performance of my laptop which really means I won't need to buy a new laptop for many more years to come. If you download the Crucial software, it gives you a lot of hidden features you can activate to increase the performance of the SSD or increase the life like 'Over-provisioning' more space for the SSD chip to do its thinking which uses up more of your space but means the SSD will reduce 'wear' over time. I was happy to activate 'Over-provisioning' but it didn't work well with the cloning that I had to do to get my OS from my old HDD to the SSD. I have uploaded a performance screenshot from CrystalDiskMark to show the massive difference between what I have now compared to what it was prior.

great performance and very fast, but beware that it also runs very hot even with the heatsink version (55-60c idle / 75c under load) it throttles at 80c and shuts down at 90c. temps were better using the larger motherboard heatsink (asus b850) but still running toasty, I would highly recommend a dedicated active cooling addon (check clearances as they are pretty high) or just stick a 92mm fan at 50% speed (silent) facing it directly (what I opted for) and it now barely hits 60-65c under load and 35c idle. room temp is 18c for all the above readings.

This is a great product. I initially bought it for elthe extra storage from my 1tb sn850 so I planned on upgrading my motherboard, CPU and ram. However, with ram prices as they are, I'll be happy to stick to gen4 speeds for the time-being. However, 4tb will be nice even in a couple of years. Bought for £280 but like ram, and prices are rocketing and is now close to £400 so, swings and roundabouts and all that. Probably not worth it now at £400.

I should not have bought a GEN5 drive in the first place. If you only game don't bother as there is no difference to performance. Get a bigger gen4 instead

Blazing fast and rock solid reliability - the perfect 2tb drive for AM5.

I don't need 2TB of this for my windows but the speed and vast storage make my PC run very smoothly

Brilliant piece of technology.

Not much to say. Quick timings, easy to install in new build. Does what it should