When we reviewed Crucial’s first PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD product, the T700, last July, it was truly in a class of its own. Since then, other manufacturers have brought their own Gen5 SSDs to market, and the T700 now has company performance at up to 12,400 MB/s (the Corsair MP700 PRO is an example).

But Crucial did not want to give up the crown. Their new T705 promises the highest sequential numbers yet, with specified read speeds of up to 14,500 MB/s and 12,700 MB/s. That’s pretty impressive, and we were lucky enough to get a 2TB sample for review. Let’s throw it on a Gen5 capable test bed and see what happens.