Crucial
Crucial T705
$239.99Cheaper
Released 2024-02
Best Internal Ssds · head-to-head
A sourced, side-by-side comparison. Crucial T705 is cheaper at $239.99. Every spec and price links to its source.
Crucial
$239.99Cheaper
Released 2024-02
Corsair
$474.99
Released 2023-11
The Crucial T705 wins 2 of the 2 specs we compare head to head; the other wins 0. The Crucial T705 is the cheaper at $239.99. The Crucial T705 both leads on specs and costs less — the straightforward pick.
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The numbers that decide it, drawn to scale — longer bar wins, the accent bar is the stronger figure.
✓ marks the stronger figure where "more" — or "less", for price and weight — is unambiguously better.
| Spec | Crucial T705 | |
|---|---|---|
| US price | $239.99 | $474.99 |
| Brand | Crucial | Corsair |
| Released | 2024-02 | 2023-11 |
| Capacity options (TB) | 1, 2, 4 | 1, 2, 4 |
| Form factor | M.2 2280 | M.2 2280 |
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x4 NVMe | PCIe 5.0 x4 NVMe |
| Seq read (Mbps) | 14500 | 12400 |
| Seq write (Mbps) | 12700 | 11800 |
| Random read kiops | 1550 | 1500 |
| Random write kiops | 1800 | 1600 |
| Nand type | 3D TLC | 3D TLC |
| Has dram cache | Yes | Yes |
| Endurance tbw | 600 | 700 |
| Warranty years | 5 | 5 |
Sources — Crucial T705: crucial.com (verified 2026-07-11). Corsair MP700 PRO: corsair.com (verified 2026-07-11).
Where the two actually differ on the specs we track (5 of 11). Matching specs are omitted.
Sourced tester consensus for each — the "what people who used it think" layer, not just specs.
Four hands-on testers — Tom's Hardware, StorageReview, PCWorld and TechRadar — each benchmarked the Crucial T705 and agree it is the fastest consumer PCIe 5.0 SSD at launch, with sequential reads near 14,400-14,500 MB/s. All four flag the steep price. Tom's Hardware and TechRadar additionally warn about heavy heat and power draw, while PCWorld and StorageReview note that the synthetic wins seldom translate to real-world or 4K workloads. (4 sourced reviews, 4 lab-tested.)
Praised: Record-setting sequential read speed — fastest consumer PCIe 5.0 SSD tested at launch; Effective bundled heatsink keeps the drive cool enough for full performance; Strong feature set: TCG OPAL/AES256 encryption, software suite, capacities up to 4TB.
Flagged: Very expensive / premium pricing across all capacities; High power consumption and heat output; requires cooling; Synthetic gains rarely translate to real-world / 4K performance.
One whitelisted lab (StorageReview) hands-on tested the 2TB MP700 PRO air-cooler model and ranks it among the better consumer PCIe Gen5 SSDs, measuring ~12.4 GB/s CrystalDiskMark reads and ~11.8 GB/s writes. Praised for chart-topping sequential speed and its active-cooling heatsink design. Flagged for write and random-IO throughput trailing top competitors — 3rd place in sequential writes and near the bottom of the boot-IOPS leaderboard (51,521 IOPS). The TechPowerUp review was dropped because its paginated content was not retrievable and none of its cited quotes or figures could be verified. (1 sourced review, 1 lab-tested.)
Praised: Chart-topping sequential transfer speeds (~12.4 GB/s read, ~11.8 GB/s write); Standout active-cooling heatsink design.
Flagged: Write and random-IO throughput trails top competitors (3rd in sequential writes; near bottom of boot-IOPS leaderboard).