Today we're sharing a performance review of the Crucial P5 1TB NVMe SSD. The P5 is Crucial's first high-end PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe SSD, featuring Micron’s third-generation 96L TLC NAND flash as well as a proprietary six-core NVMe controller.

With the P5 series, Crucial is taking a stab – arguably a bit late to the party - at the high-end segment by offering an NVMe drive with read/write speeds rating of 3400/3000MB per second. The Crucial P5 1TB variant I looked at today is a no-nonsense NVMe PCIe Gen3 x4 SSD that delivers solid performance levels overall. My real-life usage experience was inline with the synthetic benchmark results. The drive was snappy, and I didn’t notice any issues while performing daily computing tasks involving writing or seeking data.