PC World - USA (2020-09)

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Seagate FireCuda 520 [go.pcworld.com/

sgfc]) reader we’ve ever tested. The result is

well within the margin of error, but hey... a win

is a win.

of capacity. That’s meager by current
standards, but still more data than the average
user is likely to write in a decade.

PERFORMANCE
To be clear, my surprise over the P5’s
excellent performance is not due to a lack of
faith in Micron’s ability to produce a great
drive—merely that they’ve sent me only
bargain types recently. The numbers garnered
by the 1TB P5 I tested were extremely
impressive, even during relatively large write
tasks.
CrystalDiskMark 6 rated the P5 as the
fastest NVMe/PCIe 3.0 (by a whisker over the

The Crucial P5 (the top bars above) garnered the
fastest CrystalDiskMark 6 sustained write score
we’ve seen out of a PCIe 3.x NVMe SSD.

RandomWrite 4K

(Q=32, T=1) 2,5743,323

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

3,479

2,978

RandomRead 4K

(Q=32, T=1) 3,4853,511

3,474

3,507

Crucial P5 WD Black NVMe SN750

Kingston KC2500 Seagate FireCuda 520

CrystalMark 6

MBps

The P5 was second only to the WD Black

SN750 when it came to overall read and write

performance in our 48GB transfer tests.

Tot al t ime

48GB copies

(Seconds)

333

335

SHORTER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

355

342

48GB folder

write 127

132

147

146

48GB folder

read 142

148

152

14 0

48GB folder

48GB read

28

29

32

28

25

30

Crucial P5 WD Black NVMe SN750

Kingston KC2500 Seagate FireCuda 520

27

32