The SSD manufacturer Micron has introduced two new SSD series through its Crucial brand. The Crucial P5 is aimed at performance enthusiasts, while the Crucial P2 is primarily intended to convince with an affordable price.
Crucial P5
The Crucial P5 uses PCI-Express-3.0-x4 as well as the NVMe protocol of the third generation as M.2-SSD. It is the fastest SSD from Crucial to date. It should be able to read at up to 3.4 GB/s and write 3 GB/s.
Information about the built-in controller and the memory components is not yet available. It is known, however, that Crucial uses a pseudo-SLC cache, which should cause the performance of the SSD to collapse after a few gigabytes.
The Crucial P5 comes into the market with 250 GB to 2 TB. Prices are not yet known.
Crucial P2
The Crucial P2 will be launched as a budget SSD. The P2 series offers up to 2,300 MB/s read and 1,150 MB/s write. The P2 comes on the market with 250 and 500 GB. It’s noticeable here that Crucial specifies a higher write rate for the 250 GB version than for the 500 GB version.
The Crucial P2 uses a Phison E13T controller and TLC memory from the parent company Micron. The controller has no DRAM cache and Crucial has already announced that QLC memory instead of TLC memory may be used in the future.
While 250 GB will cost about 60 Euros, the 500 GB SSD will only cost 70 Euros. This of course makes the move to the larger model easy. Both models are already available, for example at Cyberport or notebooks cheaper.
