P5 ROYAL SPEED READER SERIAL NUMBER
P5 ROYAL SPEED READER SERIAL

The read speeds were 3271 which aren’t bad at all, a little under the 3400 but still with just one drive in that list that was faster. Crucial advertises the P5 as reaching up-to 3400 MB/s for read speeds and 3000 MB/s for writes so I was curious how close it came. I am mostly just looking at the sequential results here. I started my testing off with the new Crystal Disk Mark 7 with both their read and write tests. But I also include this to show the firmware revision for in the future just in case things change.

Memory: G.Skill Trident Z Royal 3600MHz 16-16-16-36Īlright, before testing the P5 I did run Crystal Disk Info just to confirm that our drive was running in PCIe 3.0 and at x4. Motherboard: Asus Crosshair VIII HERO WiFi Motherboard: Asus ROG X570 Crosshair Hero w/WiFi Then over on the right, the silver chip is the new Micron DM01B2 controller. Our 1TB drive has a 1GB DRAM chip, the 250GB and 500GB models get 512MB and the 2TB drive uses 2GB. It has a Micron 9ZD77 D9ZCM which is an LPDDR4 chip. The p5 stands out from the P5 because it isn’t a DRAM-less design. There are two NAND 9XC22 NW969 chips which are 512Gb each for the 1TB of our drive. With Crucial being a Micron brand it isn’t a big surprise that everything is made in house and has the Micron branding on it. To see what the P5 has going on, I pulled the sticker off so we could get a better look at the components.

P5 ROYAL SPEED READER SERIAL

Then all of the required certification logos and serial number. On the back, you can see a lot of the black PCB and then a smaller black sticker that has all of the important information. Combined with the black PCB, it’s a good look. The Crucial logo is right in the middle and below that the P5 model name. Being more of a high-end drive they dropped the blue and white for the sticker and went with an all-black sticker. Unlike the P2, the P5 does have a little better color scheme. Inside the drive comes protected in a clear plastic clamshell tray and with it, they tucked in a user guide.

P5 ROYAL SPEED READER SERIAL NUMBER

Around back there isn’t too much going on other than a small window that lets you confirm the drive size and the serial number of the drive inside. Up top, the Crucial branding includes a lighter blue ribbon as usual as well. Down on the bottom edge in the white, they point out that this is an NVMe M.2 drive and a sticker over the white shows the capacity. Dark blue background with the strips above the name. The packaging for the P5 is exactly the same as the P2 and the P1 before it. Well, today I’m going to check out the new P5 and see what it’s all about, how it performs, and where it fits in the market as well. But it does have an in house Micron controller. Now, this is a PCIe 3.0 drive and they are a little late to that game. Which is exciting, up until now Crucial’s only NVMe SSDs have been those budget-minded models. The P5 is a little different than there P1 and P2 because it is focused more on the higher end of the market. In addition to the P2 which I recently reviewed Crucial announced alongside the P2 their new P5.

P5 royal speed reader