Saturday, March 18th 2023
Crucial T700 PCIe 5.0 SSD Preview Unit Hits 12 GB/s Read and Write Speeds, May 2023 Release Hinted
Crucial is keen to drum up early interest for an upcoming SSD model, and the Linus Tech Tips team has received and tested a sample unit. The T700 is a PCIe Gen 5 NVMe M.2 SSD storage solution based around a Phison PS5026-E26 controller, which is a very common choice for the current generation of PCIe 5.0 SSDs available on the market. Micron 3D NAND chips look to be present on the T700's PCB, and a Crucial-branded heatsink is mounted to the provided sample unit. It is interesting to note that the uncovered T700 unit bears a striking resemblance to Phison's E26 Engineering Reference sample, although the latter appears to feature SK Hynix memory chips, instead of Micron.
The LTT team posted benchmark results from a Crystal Disk Mark test session, and the T700 achieved maximums of 12.4 GB/s sequential read and 11.9 GB/s write speeds. This represents an almost two fold jump over the performance of Crucial's PCIe 4.0 based P5 Plus SSD, which is a substantial improvement and also very impressive considering the T700's usage of a passive cooling solution.
The Crucial Memory Twitter account has stated in a reply to the LTT tweet that the T700 is "dropping in May."
There is no word on pricing for T700 at this stage, but anticipate it being expensive, since companies charge a premium for cutting edge SSD tech during launch windows.
Sources:
Linus Tech Tips Twitter, TPU Database, TweakTown
The LTT team posted benchmark results from a Crystal Disk Mark test session, and the T700 achieved maximums of 12.4 GB/s sequential read and 11.9 GB/s write speeds. This represents an almost two fold jump over the performance of Crucial's PCIe 4.0 based P5 Plus SSD, which is a substantial improvement and also very impressive considering the T700's usage of a passive cooling solution.
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optane, meanwhile ...
even forspoken a game with direct storage shows zero benefits from a half decade old gen 3 SSD vs a brand new 10GB/s gen 5 drive.
Bring back optane Intel, please - just get the message out there, surely it can't just die?!?
Gotta go fastBecause sequential speeds are borderline irrelevant unless you work with content creation and regularly transfer large single files.
Games can and do benefit from faster storage, but, like system files, that is typically lots of small files.
Yep, a perfect time to launch an uber-expensive new product :(
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random 4k is arguably the most important, unless you had two of these drives copying large files between them who cares about sequential?
If you think about it, when you need to completely reload, say, 8 GB of data in VRAM and a few GB in system RAM, you should be able to do that in 3-4 seconds from PCIe 3.0 SSD; and probably 2-3 with DirectStorage compression. Everything else is just lack of optimization or overhead, filesystem (lots of small accesses instead of a few big sequential reads), inefficient/slow decompression, not doing enough things in parallel, overhead (e.g. drivers), plus time of game state reset.
Setting aside other issues with Forspoken, it looks like DirectStorage fell victim to... optimization and great performance.
I don't play a lot of games, but from my PCIe 3.0 SSD, in a few other AAA releases loading a save takes 10-20x the time Forspoken needs for the same (even when changing environment).
So I guess what happened is MS wanted to show off with DirectStorage, made the developer optimize, optimize and optimize some more. They shaved time from, say, 20 seconds to 2, then applied DirectStorage compression to reduce it to 1 second, made it smaller than CPU/GPU loading overhead... and it turned out that, on fast disks,:)