Crucial T705 4TB SSD PCIe Gen5 NVMe M.2 with Premium Heatsink, Up to 14,100MB/s, Microsoft DirectStorage, PCIe 4.0 Backwards Compatible, Internal Solid State Drive - CT4000T705SSD5

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.

Quick drive, mine thermal throttled a lot with the stock heatsink. Replaced with a new one and turns out they'd misplaced the thermal paste so it wasn't in contact with the chips on the pcb so if there is very high temperatures at idle check the thermal paste

Okay, quick one but worth reading. The Crucial T705 is a 5 Star device that delivers ALL the speed and stability it promises. HOWEVER... 1 Star is for the two I got from Amazon (sent from partners). Neither the one I first bought nor its replacement worked at all in any of 3 systems. I used the refund to get one from Crucial UK, and THAT I give 5 Stars. It's an awesome drive that is massive overkill for most people, BUT GET IT FROM CRUCIAL, not from Amazon partners. They don't seem to have the proper precautions and measures taken for the drives. Hope this helps.

AVOID, AVOID - Bought, delivered and failed immediately when attempted to initialise on MAC. Returned and Replacement bought….same story. Very promising speed offered BUT you have to deliver a working product. Tech suppport offered limited help (almost turn it off and back on again) which included needing a windows computer (but I’m ringing about a MAC!). Might be slower but maybe try Samsung 990 series…..

I purchased a new computer and it only came with a single 1TB SSD.. Considering I'm a massive gamer I knew immediately it was going to be an issue.. I settled on an External drive with a fair bit of memory 8 TB's and that filled my needs for a while, but I noticed that some games had stuttering and lag, which considering the specs on my system shouldn't have been happening.. RTX4090, 64 GB of ram, etc etc etc etc.. So I narrowed down the likely causes to the External HDD, so I knew I needed to remedy that situation asap.. After searching around I settled on the Crucial T700,, highly rated, and reviewed.. The price is hefty but gaming isn't a cheap hobby, if you want to play like a pro, you gotta pay like a pro.. The install was super easy, plug and play pretty much, the only issue arose from trying to format the drive for use.. after a half hour and numerous youtube videos I discovered that I had forgotten to name the drive, after feeling like an idiot, I had my harddrive installed and ready to roll.. Download speeds have never been faster, I've always had issues with steam download times, normally stuff that my internet speeds should have done in minutes would take an hour or more, with the Crucial it's down to taking minutes again.. I honestly couldn't be happier with this product.. If had another slot on my board I'd pick up another and never have to worry about uninstalling and installing games again.. Extremely happy with this purchase..

Super fast, surprisingly not that hot temps are ok

Very Fast,, worth the investment and upgrade,, highly recommended and you will feel the improvement even on a gen 4 motherboard

This is blazing fast if your motherboard supports PCI 5.0. A couple things to keep in mind, it has it's own heatsink. I think you probably can remove it and use your own but from what I read it is a good one and does the job, so I just used the built in one. At first I had some issues getting it to sit properly on my motherboard and then realized there was a layer of compound on the back of it, which this has one built in, so once I removed that it was fine. The only negative issue I have had is that I can't get the crucial software to set the over provisioning. It keeps telling me to do it manually in drive manager. I think it is worth the price, it is fast, but keep in mind on real world experience, if you already have an m.2 you are likely not to notice a ton of difference unless you are copying a large file, normal day to day use is similar, actually my Sabarent Rocket 4 had better random read write speeds. I posted that benchmark also. But if you want the latest cutting edge and fastest... this is your drive. I also used the EaseUS Partition Master to clone my windows 11 os with zero issues. Worked perfectly, entire system cloned in about 9 minutes. I can't recommend that software enough...

great storage capacity, lightning fast, and the heatsink works great under heavy load!