Crucial T700 2TB with Heatsink SSD Review

The T700 Heatsink comes in a decent quality box with a good clear image of the drive on the front. To the right of this image is a longish sticker that displays the capacity of the drive, maximum Sequential read speed and a logo stating the 5-year warranty. The rear of the box is home to some multi-lingual notes about the drive's speed, backward compatibility and the fact that it has a factory-fitted heatsink.

Under the two-part heat sink, the 2TB T700 is built on a dual-sided M.2 2280 format.

One side of the PCB holds the Phison PS5026-E26 8-channel controller, two Micron 232-layer (B58R) 3D TLC packages and an LPDDR4 DRAM IC. On the other side of the PCB are two more NAND packages. Phison's PS5026-E26 is the first consumer Gen5 controller. Built on a 12nm process, it uses dual Arm Cortex-R5 cores that work together with Phison’s CoXProcessor 2.0 specialized accelerators. It supports up to 32TB of TLC or QLC NAND flash memory with data transfer speeds of up to 2400 MT/s. The first couple of drives using the E26 had transfer speeds of 1600MT/s but in the T700 it's running at 2000MT/s. The controller supports the company's 5th Generation LDPC ECC engine.

Crucial's design for the passive heatsink for the T700 isn't as massive as some we've seen, only adding around 19mm to the height and 39g to the weight of the drive. The heatsink is constructed from aluminium and nickel-plated copper and is fixed to the cradle holding the drive by four small screws.

Crucial’s Storage Executive is a pretty comprehensive SSD toolkit. With it, you can check the drive’s S.M.A.R.T data, update the firmware, see how the drive’s capacity is being used, monitor the drive’s operating temperature and overall health as well as adjust the Over Provisioning. There are a few more options as well that aren't supported by this particular drive.

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