Crucial

Crucial T705 2TB

Name: Crucial T705 2TB
Brand: Crucial

Crucial T705Released February 20, 2024Launch price $399.99 (2TB without heatsink, price at launch (Tom's Hardware, StorageReview))

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3DMark Storage 6,739points#3 of 11 PCMark 10 Storage 6,541points#5 of 11 Sustained write 4,029MB/s#3 of 10 CrystalDiskMark sequential Read14,163MB/s#5 of 9

The Phison E26 drive that set the Gen5 pace in early 2024. It still sits near the top of the 3DMark Storage and sustained-write charts, holding over 4 GB/s once its cache fills; Crucial says the bare version needs a motherboard heatsink to run at full speed.

Against the line-up

3DMark Storage points

#3 of 11 · Tom's Hardware

1SN8100 2TB8,100
2Renegade G5 2TB7,337
3T705 2TB6,739
4T710 2TB6,647

PCMark 10 Storage points

#5 of 11 · Tom's Hardware

1SN8100 2TB7,694
2Renegade G5 2TB6,893
39100 Pro 2TB6,597
4T710 2TB6,583
5T705 2TB6,541
6T500 2TB4,781

Sustained write MB/s

#3 of 10 · Tom's Hardware

1T500 2TB4,066
2T710 2TB4,050
3T705 2TB4,029
4SN8100 2TB3,892

CrystalDiskMark sequential Read · MB/s

#5 of 9 · StorageReview; † another publication

1SN8100 2TB14,307
2Renegade G5 2TB14,302
3T710 2TB14,293
49100 Pro 2TB14,287
5T705 2TB14,163
6SN7100 2TB7,137

3DMark DirectStorage Storage to VRAM, GDeflate · GB/s

#3 of 8 · StorageReview

1SN8100 2TB26.1
2T710 2TB26
3T705 2TB25.8
49100 Pro 2TB23.8

The whole SSDs line-up side by side, with prices

Every benchmark

Quoted from the publications that ran them; we don't test hardware ourselves. Figures from different publications were run on different systems and scenes, so compare within a row's source.

CrystalDiskMark sequential

Setting	Result	Source
Read	14,506MB/s	KitGuru, Jun 10, 2024 AMD Ryzen 7 7700X, Gigabyte AORUS X670E Xtreme CrystalDiskMark 8 default test (SEQ1M Q8T1). Heatsink version tested
Read	14,163MB/s	Tom's Hardware, Feb 20, 2024 Intel Core i9-12900K Peak sequential read, 1MB QD8
Write	12,739MB/s	KitGuru, Jun 10, 2024 AMD Ryzen 7 7700X, Gigabyte AORUS X670E Xtreme CrystalDiskMark 8 default test (SEQ1M Q8T1). Heatsink version tested
Write	12,653MB/s	Tom's Hardware, Feb 20, 2024 Intel Core i9-12900K Peak sequential write, 1MB QD8

3DMark Storage

Setting	Result	Source
Standard run	5,100points	StorageReview, Mar 18, 2025 AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Hero Comparison drive in the Samsung 9100 Pro review
Standard run	6,739points	Tom's Hardware, Feb 20, 2024 Intel Core i9-12900K

PCMark 10 Storage

Setting	Result	Source
Standard run one source	6,541points	Tom's Hardware, Feb 20, 2024 Intel Core i9-12900K
Data Drive one source	8,783points	StorageReview, Mar 18, 2025 AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Hero Comparison drive in the Samsung 9100 Pro review

Sustained write

Setting	Result	Source
Standard run one source	4,029MB/s	Tom's Hardware, Feb 20, 2024 Intel Core i9-12900K Steady state: average MB/s after 15 minutes of 1MiB sequential writes at QD32

3DMark DirectStorage

Setting	Result	Source
Storage to VRAM, GDeflate one source	25.8GB/s	StorageReview, Mar 18, 2025 AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Hero Comparison drive in the Samsung 9100 Pro review

Specs

Capacity	2 TB
Interface	PCIe 5.0 x4, NVMe
Form factor	M.2 2280
Sequential read	14500 MB/s
Sequential write	12700 MB/s
Endurance	1200 TBW
Controller	Phison E26
NAND	Micron 232-layer TLC
DRAM cache	LPDDR4

From Tom's Hardware review spec table (Crucial's figures) (2024-02-20), Crucial (2026-10-19).

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Sources

KitGuru (review)
StorageReview (review)
Tom's Hardware (review)

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