Crucial - P5 Plus 1TB Internal SSD Pcle Gen 4 x4 NVMe with Heatsink for PS5

If you're looking for more storage for your PS5 and need something that is not only super affordable now but also from a reputable company, here's your answer. Since Sony finally updated the consoles with firmware that allowed the use of NVMe's, the competition has grown and the prices have dropped more and more. Now is the time to jump on that 1 or 2TB of space you've been eyeing. Now, if you are using this for your PC, I just wanted to throw this out there and warn people there is no screw included in the box. So make sure you are prepared for that. Since I am using this for my PS5, I recommend you watch some Youtube tutorials on how to remove the plates if you haven't done so before to avoid potentially damaging them. All you are going to need is a Phillips head screwdriver to unscrew 2 screws to get to the socket and move the screw to the 80mm mark. Plug in the drive, replace the screws and plates and you are off to the races. Performance is exactly what the console needs. Out of the box and with no firmware update needed, I scored 5652MB/s which is more than what it required. I changed my installation destination to the drive and all my games ran without a hitch. Crucial is one of the top companies I recommend for speed, price and reliability and would even look at getting a 2TB with the great pricing. I hope in the future they make even a larger capacity as I would upgrade in a heartbeat.

I’ve been waiting to upgrade my PS5 storage for awhile and I’m glad I did. M.2 SSDs especially the ones with heat sinks were very expensive until recently where prices have taken a free fall. You can get a new 1TB or 2TB top-end Gen4 SSD for less than half what it cost a year or two ago when PS5 launched. The Crucial P5 Plus is a Gen4 PCIE 4.0 SSD with max read/write speeds of 6600/5000 Mbps which is down just slightly from a few of the competitor drives that hit 7000/6000 for Gen4. Not a huge deal since PS5 seems to cap out around 5600Mbps anyways and Somy recommends drives that are rated for 5500+ speeds. So the P5 Plus is ready for the job. Installing it was simple, I just looked up the PS5 video for installing an SSD, popped the lid open by turning the PS5 upside down and disc side facing away from me. Slide the cover off and you see the rest looks like a PC. Use a screwdriver to remove the metal plate and the m.2 screw, then move the stand-off to the 2280 spot. Insert the SSD at a 45 angle, slide it in, and secure it with the screw on the stand-off. Put the metal plate back and close the PS5. Took about 5 mins total. I build my own PCs so this was pretty easy for me, if you are unsure let a handy friend or maybe Geek Squad take care of this for you. Once I booted up my PS5 it instantly detected the P5 Plus SSD and asked if I wanted to format it. Hit yes, and it tells the speed of the drive which again, seems capped around 5600Mbps from other reports on the web. Then on settings > storage you can choose where to install your games so I chose the Crucial since my built in storage only has 50GB left. A few notes, you definitely want a fast SSD rated at 5500Mbpd in your internal slot as this lets you run games off the drive instead of just use it to store downloaded games. External drives and slower SSDs won’t give you this option. Also, the heatsinks are more than just looks. Not sure if anyone has tested on PS5, but m.2 in the past have been shown to throttle on PC due to temps for sustained loads. Not an issue on the p5 plus since it has a very nice and substantial feeling heat sink installed. Great price and option if you need more PS5 storage!

I’m going to keep this short and sweet. Has great specs at a great price from a trusted brand with 5-year warranty. TBW is right there with the best of the bests. Comes with a great heatsink, max temp I saw was 53 c. Usually that alone costs ~$8 - $15. Testing proved it hit rated specs in synthetic benchmarks. Transfer speeds to and from were great for the price. While it isn’t the best SSD on the market, as it scores in the top 25 percentile on average, it is a stellar bang for your buck. Great for your PC or PS5. I don’t know how long it will last as I haven’t had it for long. But Crucial/Micron are huge players and I’d expect good things. Boot times were fast. Very responsive for window install. QUICK SPECS: - 2280 NVMe Gen 4 SSD - 176 Layer TLC NAND from Micron ARM 32 Bit processor. - 2 GB LPDDR4 2133 MT/s - 600 TBW - Direct Storage Enabled - Full Hardware-Based Encryption (not always seen). TESTING: Crystal Disk Mark: - See attached photo: But I got the rated Read and Write of 6,600 and 5,000 MB/s (Mine was 6,799.23 and 5,019.06 MB/s). - See attached photo: For External NVMe encloser (10 GB/s max) it scored Read 1,064 MB/s and Write 1,042.82 MB/s. I don’t know why you’d buy this fast of a drive for that. But it does hit full speeds. Transferring of Files: - Using an X570 motherboard that supports dual NVMe 4x4 transferred COD (151 GB) between the Crucial P5 Plus and Western Digital SN850x back-to-back. - Transferring from Crucial P5 Plus to WD SN850x: Peaked at ~3.00 GB/s (3,000 MB/s) but mainly stayed 700 MB/s – 1.10 GB/s. Took three minutes. - Transferring from WD SN850x to Crucial P5 Plus: Stayed at ~2.6 – 3.0 GB/s until the last 17 GB where it dropped to ~1.00 – 1.3 GB/s. Took 1 minute. Yes, 151 GB took 1 minute to transfer. Insane! WITH MOMENTUM CACHE: Crystal Mark Scores went through the roof, with Read 12,715.20 MB/s (vs 6,799.23) and Write 9,357.42 MB/s (vs 5,019.06). But repeated tests back-to-back showed a quick degradation to Read 6,489.83 MB/s and Write 7,162.44 MB/s. Honestly, I turned it off as it can cause some instability to data and found the increased speeds to be negligible in my normal operation and at times even hindered it. Actual transfer rates were worse. I did test this twice to verify results. - SN850x to Crucial: ~ 2.2 – 2.5 GB/s (vs 2.5 – 3.0 GB/s). - Crucial to SN850x: ~1.75 GB/s for 80 GB then 600 MB/s – 1.10 GB/s for the rest. (vs 700 – 1.10 GB/s)

The Crucial P5 Plus is a 1TB SSD with heatsink. I plan to use this on my Sony Playstation 5. Removing the side cover is tricky but simple. I had to find some Youtube videos, but the trick is to lift and slide. Do not just lift up. Once you remove the side cover, there is another cover for the M.2 slot. Once you remove it, you will see several holes and at the end, you will see a ring/riser and screw. Unscrew this and remove the ring/riser. The size of the SSD is 2280. The hole labeled “80” is where you will put the ring/riser and screw in the SSD. If you done it correctly, as soon as you turn on the PS5, it will inform you of the SSD drive and that you need to format it. You will need to format it before you can use it. The PS5 detects its read speeds to be 5661 MB/s. Not bad considering the maximum speed is 6600 MB/s. I selected four games that I mostly play with a total of 251 GB of data to be moved. The estimated time to move the data was four minutes. I tried it with Gran Turismo 7. I noticed a difference when using the Livery. It loads quicker than before. The race also loads quicker. This is a great upgrade in my opinion. Especially being able to use both internal storage and this NVME drive. You can move frequently played games over to the NVME SSD drive so that they load faster.

The Crucial P5 Plus PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 SSD is a great option for anyone looking to expand storage for their PS5 or PC. Especially right now, as they are on sale. This SSD has fast read and write speeds and worked great as a replacement for my usb storage that I had for my PS5. Because the games were being moved from usb to m.2, it did take it a while but I also moved over 556 GB all at once so i expected it to take a long time. Games that I have stored on the SSD launch fast and it performs like they were on the base storage space. I also like that it has an included heatsink attached as there's nothing to cool that area of the ps5 other than the one fan cooling the entire system, but I am not sure how much air actually flows through that area. Being Gen4, it is actually faster than the 970 Evo Plus that is in my PC that is Gen3, so it was tempting to use it as my boot drive in my pc and use the Samsung drive as extra storage, but I have been looking to expand my PS5 storage and get off of the usb storage and saw this as a good opportunity. Anyway, overall I have been very happy with this drive and would recommend it to anyone looking for a fast 1 TB SSD.

This is great drive, with great speeds. I think the packaging is a bit conservative in it’s performance promise, the drive consistently beats 6600 in my tests. I posted caps of an average test with 1GB, and an average test with 4GB. The drive does not choke with a lot of writes as the cheaper drives with fast cache will, this one just keeps going full speed. It runs cooler than the other P5 Plus I have in here under a motherboard heatsink, but that may be just the difference between being on the chipset vs the cpu lanes. I really like the heatsink design, half open, half closed, it’s got the tunnel down the middle for extra cooling from PS5 mounts, but it still works great in computer cases as well. I was using one of the motherboard heatsinks for another P5 Plus, and have the picture posted of what the heat pad was actually making contact with, not much, but it’s enough, since it makes good contact with the controller, which is on the right of the logo. That’s the most important part to keep cool, but the Crucial heatsink makes good coverage, staying very cool in my air cooled PC. Definite recommend!

The Crucial P5 Plus is a great NVMe SSD from one of the leading manufacturers of storage. I installed the P5 Plus first in my PS5 to see how well it would work when loading/playing games and it worked exactly as advertised. The installation was super simple and the heat sink is just enough so that it doesn’t get stuck when trying to install it. When it came to game play I experienced no lag when playing any game (shooters/RPG/sports) even after having it on for multiple hours there was little to no noticeable slow-down while gaming. The attached heat sink does an amazing job by making sure the drive doesn’t get too hot and it comes preinstalled so one less thing I personally needed to worry about. Now the PS5 only showed that I was getting read speeds of 5200 , not the 6600 its rated for but the 6600 is a best case scenario. One thing I would like to mention is the P5 Plus did not come with a NVMe screw so please keep that in mind. Besides the PS5 I also attached the Crucial P5 plus to a laptop (external NVMe enclosure) and used it to transfer some video files and music files and this harddrive worked like a champ , I did see a drop off in the transfer speeds after a while however I was transferring huge files which totaled about 350 GB. Overall this is one of the best NVMe harddrives on the market and this thing is fast. I would highly recommend it to anyone looking to upgrade/add additional storage or to use as a backup drive. The drive it self has a whole mess of other techy things that help protect your data (the drive makes auto adjustment to so the drive does not get too hot to damage it) which I would go into but to make a long story short Crucial is known as a world leader when it comes to storage for a reason.

I'll keep this concise: you have very few reasons to get anything else. Whether for gaming, data storage, content creation, etc., this has what it takes to upgrade your current setup. ***WHAT IT GETS RIGHT:*** 1.) Built-in heatsink which goes all the way around. You won't have an issue with a cooked underside PCB. This takes the heat out the top. The heatsink looks nice, too. 2.) When connected to a PCI-E Gen. 4 device, this actually hits advertised read speeds. Even in older (Gen. 3) hardware, you'll peg the rev. limiter with this, capping off the 3500 MB/s bus speed. 3.) Price. Compared to the Gaming-pocalypse of early 2021 to 2023, the price on something this fast and this quality - at this storage size - is incredible. 4.) Hardware encryption. It's shocking that something consumer-focused - specifically GAMING focused - would include hardware encryption, but here it is. 5.) A write-cache. Small to medium files write incredibly fast due to a sizeable write cache. 6.) Disk-cloning software. It may not be your ideal cloning-software, depending on how often you require it, but it's just an extra bonus for Crucial to include it. ***WHAT MAY BE LACKING:*** The kitchen sink? Honestly, the only type of user who may not like this dtive is the gamer/builder who wants to keep the stock motherboard NVMe heatsinks. That's it. That's all I can think of. ***CONCLUSION:*** Get it.