Micron unveils new Crucial P5 Plus SSDs

Micron Technology has unveiled Crucial P5 Plus PCIe SSDs in an expansion of its NVMe solid-state drive (SSD) portfolio that are intended to offer high-performance internal Gen4 storage options to consumers.

By leveraging Micron’s shipments of 176-layer NAND, Crucial P5 Plus SSDs enable lower power, higher speed, and denser storage solutions. In addition, Micron’s advanced 176L 3D TLC NAND and controller technology, yields up to 66% faster sequential write speeds and nearly double the sequential reads of prior generation Crucial SSDs.

“With data intensive workloads on the rise, consumers increasingly demand high-performance storage solutions for their needs including engineering applications, video editing, content creation and gaming,” explained Teresa Kelley, vice president and general manager of Micron’s Consumer Products Group. “By using our powerful, industry-leading 176-layer 3D NAND, coupled with the latest high-bandwidth storage interface, the P5 Plus Gen4 SSD makes lightning-fast computing storage accessible for a broad spectrum of consumers in the market.”

Offering read speeds of up to 6600MB/s, these Crucial P5 Plus SSDs enable up to 67% faster random read and 40% faster random write performance over prior Crucial Gen3 SSDs, according to Micron.

Intended for new PCIe Gen4 PC builds or a PCIe Gen3 system upgrade, the P5 Plus is compatible with both and has been tested on Intel and AMD platforms including the latest 11th Generation Intel Core processors and AMD Ryzen 3000 PCIe 4.0 motherboards. Likewise, they are also backward compatible for most Gen3 PC systems that support M.2 form factors.