Crucial
3DMark Storage 6,647points#4 of 11
PCMark 10 Storage 6,583points#4 of 11
Sustained write 4,050MB/s#2 of 10
CrystalDiskMark sequential Read14,293MB/s#3 of 9
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
PCMark 10 Storage
Sustained write
CrystalDiskMark sequential
3DMark DirectStorage
LLM load time
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 |
14,293MB/s | Tom's Hardware, Sep 3, 2025 Intel Core i9-12900K Peak sequential read, 1MB QD8 |
| Write |
13,544MB/s | Tom's Hardware, Sep 3, 2025 Intel Core i9-12900K Peak sequential write, 1MB QD8 |
3DMark Storage
| Setting | Result | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Standard run | 6,647points | Tom's Hardware, Sep 3, 2025 Intel Core i9-12900K |
| 5,083points | StorageReview, Jul 1, 2025 |
PCMark 10 Storage
| Setting | Result | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Standard run |
6,583points | Tom's Hardware, Sep 3, 2025 Intel Core i9-12900K |
Sustained write
| Setting | Result | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Standard run |
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
| Setting | Result | Source |
|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek R1 32B |
4.46s | StorageReview, Jul 1, 2025 Average of 10 loads |
3DMark DirectStorage
| Setting | Result | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Storage to VRAM, GDeflate |
26GB/s | StorageReview, Jul 1, 2025 |
Sources
- StorageReview (review)
- Tom's Hardware (review)
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