Crucial

Crucial's second Gen5 drive moves to the Silicon Motion SM2508 controller and Micron's 276-layer flash. It is about as fast as the T705 in Tom's game and application traces and holds over 4 GB/s in long writes.

Against the line-up

3DMark Storage points

#4 of 11 · Tom's Hardware
  1. 1SN8100 2TB8,100
  2. 2Renegade G5 2TB7,337
  3. 3T705 2TB6,739
  4. 4T710 2TB6,647
  5. 59100 Pro 2TB6,371

PCMark 10 Storage points

#4 of 11 · Tom's Hardware
  1. 1SN8100 2TB7,694
  2. 2Renegade G5 2TB6,893
  3. 39100 Pro 2TB6,597
  4. 4T710 2TB6,583
  5. 5T705 2TB6,541

Sustained write MB/s

#2 of 10 · Tom's Hardware
  1. 1T500 2TB4,066
  2. 2T710 2TB4,050
  3. 3T705 2TB4,029
  4. 4SN8100 2TB3,892

CrystalDiskMark sequential Read · MB/s

#3 of 9 · StorageReview; † another publication
  1. 1SN8100 2TB14,307
  2. 2Renegade G5 2TB14,302
  3. 3T710 2TB14,293
  4. 49100 Pro 2TB14,287

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

#2 of 8 · StorageReview
  1. 1SN8100 2TB26.1
  2. 2T710 2TB26
  3. 3T705 2TB25.8
  4. 49100 Pro 2TB23.8

LLM load time DeepSeek R1 32B · s, lower is better

#3 of 6 · StorageReview
  1. 1SN8100 2TB4.29
  2. 29100 Pro 2TB4.37
  3. 3T710 2TB4.46
  4. 4Renegade G5 2TB4.65
  5. 5990 Pro 2TB5.11
  6. 6P310 2TB5.48

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

SettingResultSource
Read
one source
14,293MB/s Tom's Hardware, Sep 3, 2025
Intel Core i9-12900K
Peak sequential read, 1MB QD8
Write
one source
13,544MB/s Tom's Hardware, Sep 3, 2025
Intel Core i9-12900K
Peak sequential write, 1MB QD8

3DMark Storage

SettingResultSource
Standard run 6,647points Tom's Hardware, Sep 3, 2025
Intel Core i9-12900K
5,083points StorageReview, Jul 1, 2025

PCMark 10 Storage

SettingResultSource
Standard run
one source
6,583points Tom's Hardware, Sep 3, 2025
Intel Core i9-12900K

Sustained write

SettingResultSource
Standard run
one source
4,050MB/s Tom's Hardware, Sep 3, 2025
Intel Core i9-12900K
Steady state: average MB/s after 15 minutes of 1MiB sequential writes at QD32

LLM load time

SettingResultSource
DeepSeek R1 32B
one source
4.46s StorageReview, Jul 1, 2025
Average of 10 loads

3DMark DirectStorage

SettingResultSource
Storage to VRAM, GDeflate
one source
26GB/s StorageReview, Jul 1, 2025

Sources

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