If you’re still using SATA drives – either hard drives or solid state ones – you’re missing out on the better performance and lower prices the NVMe M.2 drives available on the market today boast.
One of the best examples is the recently-launched Crucial P5 Plus which offers sequential read speeds of up to 6 600MB/s by leveraging Gen4 NVMe technology and a tiny M.2 form factor.
Crucial has worked tirelessly to offer this performance in a drive that can easily tackle gaming, editing, engineering applications and just about every other difficult task you can throw at it, complete with a five-year limited warranty to back up its longevity.
Creatives will love the speed here with a drive finally able to stand up to those massive projects that you fear opening and working on. The P5 Plus finally turns those nightmare files into just another task thanks to its speed and capacity.
If you’ve not yet used one of these drives you’re in for a real treat. Unlike the SATA drives you don’t need to worry about separate connections for data and power delivery as the NVMe drives connect with one slot providing both. It’s an absolute godsend for those tired with fiddling with wires in their desktops and those worried about space in notebooks.
Those who have used older NVMe drives like the Gen3 and found yourself frustrated with bottlenecks are also in for a treat with the full capabilities of a brand new drive like the P5 Plus. If you’ve spent the money upgrading to a new motherboard – or one of those pricey new GPUs from Nvidia or AMD – don’t let your drive be the limiting factor in your setup.
There’s still a long list of great games coming out in 2021, but 2022 is looking to be an absolute bumper year. All the titles that have been endlessly delayed because of the pandemic are receiving a launch next year, which makes upgrading now the perfect time to get in before the rush.
Drives like the Crucial P5 Plus are bringing real parity to the world of storage where all the other formats of storage are simply being outclassed by both performance and value for money across stationary and mobile devices, and it is even entering a world outside of PCs…
The PlayStation 5 and storage upgrades*
Recently Sony released its beta software that allows for users to install their own NVMe SSDs into the console to give the PlayStation 5 some much needed extra storage.
Before the release of the PS5 last year Sony really harped on the capability of its pre-installed storage and the new gameplay opportunities that developers could access thanks to this faster performance when compared to the last generation.
Because of this the company has put together a laundry list of storage requirements for the drives users can install on their systems. Sony requires that these secondary SSDs interface through PCIe Gen4, connect through the M.2 form factor, offer sequential read speeds of 5 500MB/s or faster and offer capacities between 250 GB and 4 TB.
The Crucial P5 Plus not only meets these requirements but surpasses them. As mentioned about the sequential read speeds of up to 6600MB/s for the Crucial P5 Plus drives means there will be absolutely no slow down here with your additional storage easily keeping pace with the PS5.
While the PlayStation 5 is expensive and still difficult to find, the Crucial P5 Plus can be bought right now from Takealot.
The P5 Plus also meets Sony’s requirements when it comes to size as the 1TB option is available which will more than double the available storage on the console.
No matter if you choose to use this drive in desktops, notebooks or consoles, these storage options means that there’s always a great choice for your needs and budget, while offering fantastic performance.
*Third party heatsink or cooling structure required for secondary SSD installations in the Sony PlayStation 5. User-installed storage is in testing beta phase.
