In order to test the NVME drive r we used the following configuration:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X
• Case: be quiet! Dark Base Pro 901
• Case fans: 2x140 be quiet! Silent Wings 4 PWM
• CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U12A Chromax.Black + 2x120mm Stock Noctua fans
• Motherboard: ProArt X670E-CREATOR WIFI with 1415 BIOS
• Memory: 2x16GB AddLink Spider X5 DDR5-6000MHz (EXPO Profile)
• PSU: be quiet! Dark Pro 13 1300Watt
• Main Storage: Samsung 980Pro 1TB
• VGA: MSI GeForce RTX 4090 SUPRIM X 24G
• Operating system: Windows 11 x64 + latest motherboard/AMD chipset drivers installed (DirectStorage enabled drive)

First of all this drive with the included heatsink does perform according to Crucial's specifications, resulting in a maximum temperature of 66 Celsius under continuous load, while normal temperatures are expected around 52 Celsius. That is a very good performance, meaning all the time you will get max performance without any fear of thermal throttle.

The CryctalDiskMark results are very good in most cases

The latest version of CrystalDiskMark reports around 6.6G/sec reading and 5.1GB/sec writing with sequential operation.

The AJA Test Suite also gives a quick read/write test result.

Passing to the AS SSD Benchmark, we got a good score with 8025 points.

The ATTO Disk Benchmark shows low performance, but it's rather outdated and doesn't work very well with Gen4/Gen5 PCIe drives.

, while with the latest ATTO Disk Benchmark 4.01.0f1 version, we got very high results, up to 6.17GB/sec reading and 4.704GB/sec writing performance.

At the I/O Meter test, the drive showed good performance with 102468.04 points, while not getting at the top, will have very good performance. We got a very good average I/O response time of 0.078ms and a maximum of 9.90ms of I/O response time.

Then we tried to copy big files from the internal NVME SSD to the Crucial 2TB P5 Plus NVME SSD to test the writing endurance of the drive. The first test was to copy from a Samsung 980Pro 1TB NVME SSD a 47GB Single file to each Crucial NVME SSD with the Terracopy Software. The writing process was very good, and while we witnessed a small drop in writing speed, the overall writing speed was very good.

Performing the same test with a single 218GB file, gave us, more or less similar results. The single file was written without any issues and performance was around 3.0GB/sec with no drops in writing speed.