Crucial P5 Plus 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive
CDRLabs kicks off the week with a review of Crucial's new PCIe 4.0 SSD, the P5 Plus. Designed specifically for intensive workloads, high-quality creative content and hardcore gaming, this M.2 form factor drive is powered by Micron's own DM02A1 controller and is available with up to 2TB of their industry-leading 176-layer 3D TLC NAND flash. The P5 Plus also includes advanced features like full dynamic write acceleration, error correction, full hardware-based encryption and adaptive thermal protection to keep your data safe while enhancing system reliability. To top it all off, the drive is equipped with an ultra-fast PCIe Gen4 x4 NVMe 1.4 interface and is capable of 6,600 MB/s read and 5,000 MB/s write speeds.

Low latency, high endurance Storage Class Memory (SCM) is coming to KIOXIA NVMe™ SSDs. Kioxia Corporation, a world leader in memory solutions, is now sampling its KIOXIA FL6 Series enterprise NVMe SCM SSDs. Featuring Kioxia’s SCM solution, XL-FLASH, the dual-port and PCIe® 4.0-compliant KIOXIA FL6 Series SSDs bridge the gap between DRAM and TLC-based drives, making them well-suited to latency-sensitive use cases such as caching layer, tiering and write logging.


Today, CDRLabs brings you a review of Plextor's new PCIe 4.0 SSD, the M10PY. Designed for avid gamers and audio-visual (AV) enthusiasts, this HHHL form factor drive is powered by Innogrit's Rainier (IG5236) controller and is available with up to 2TB of Kioxia's 96-layer BiCS4 3D NAND flash. The M10PY also features an extra large heatsink with programmable RGB lighting and is equipped with an ultra-fast PCIe Gen4 x4 interface capable of delivering up to 7,000 MB/s read and 5,000 MB/s write speeds.