It’s alright “cons” for this one is that you need to buy a separate heatsink… I rather get the Corsair MP600 PRO LX with no needing of a separate heatsink because it’s already attached and the price is little cheaper and the read speeds is @ 6500+ vs this crucial at 5600mbps… do yourself a favor and get the Corsair MP600 pro LX with much better speeds and comes with heatsink and little cheaper too. Look at the picture I included of the speed with the Corsair MP600 pro LX 1TB.. I also got a top heatsink along and looks nicer instead of thee original top heatsink.

Windows 11 specs needed this upgrade. Got it for a 64 bit 'Ryzen CPU' build, Gigabyte MOBO approved part, along with some others. All approved. Rig is very quiet, and snap fast. Traditional SSD or HD comes no where close to these for OS loading, running programs etc. If you are building now, consider following CPU / MOBO recommendations, otherwise it may not work as you expect!

If you are going to get a Crucial NVMe drive, please get this P5 Plus model; you will see multiple reviews listing issues with the less expensive P5 model. I have purchased two of the 1TB P5 Plus models, and I installed one in a desktop and one in a laptop. However, neither the desktop nor the laptop must be PCIe Gen 4 compatible because my read/write speeds were only half of Crucial's claimed "up to 6600MB/s sequential reads" and "up to 5000MB/s sequential writes" (see attached images of CrystalDiskInfo stats for each system). For most users with a one-to-three-year-old computer that has a M.2 2280 slot, your average maximum is going to be 3000MB/s read/write. If you have a brand new, high end system that is confirmed to have a PCIe Gen 4 M.2 2280 slot, then you may very well reach the mythical 6600MB/s numbers that Crucial advertises. Will the average user be able to tell the difference between 3000MB/s and 6600MB/s? Probably not; the P5 Plus is crazy-fast either way. However, if stats matter to you and you are buying this drive in hopes of reaching Crucial's advertised maximums, be sure your system is PCIe Gen 4 ready. Also, if you plan on putting this drive in a desktop, Crucial's included screw is useless; the screw's threads and head are too small to secure the drive to a desktop board. Please make sure your desktop board has the right screw before attempting an install. While Crucial's screw did work in the laptop, the head of the screw is still a bit small; Crucial should include a screw with a larger head for a more secure fit. I am giving this product four out of five stars; Crucial should disclose the realistic read/write speeds for most users and not just the PCIe Gen 4 speeds, and the included screw is trash. Nevertheless, this drive is fast and works amazingly well in Windows 10.

*Summary: The Crucial P5 Plus NVME drive lived up to its marketing claims and delivered a great performance on my Windows 10 PC. Everything was sped up, like video editing, gaming, and transferring large files. The 5-year warranty is awesome and the price is competitive and reasonable. It's a win! _____ *Pros: -Fast performance for all scenarios - gaming, video editing, and file transfers. -Simple and quick install into my laptop. -Good pricing and value for a PCIe 4.0 drive. -Runs 10C cooler than my Samsung NVME drive. -5-year warranty. _____ Cons: -None. The Crucial P5 Plus Gen4 NVME drive is my second drive from Crucial (I'm usually a Samsung guy) and I'm delighted with it. The drive offers everything I want from an NVME drive - easy installation (thanks to the included screw), low temperatures (10C cooler than my Samsung 960 Evo 1TB NVME inside the same laptop), consistently speedy performance in everything I do with it (gaming, video editing, large file transfers), and a reassuring 5-year warranty period. The installation of the P5 Plus was a cakewalk. After undoing about 15 screws & popping off the bottom cover of my Asus TUF 15.6" gaming laptop, I slid the drive in and used the included screw to hold it down. To activate the drive in Windows 10, I just went into Computer Management -> Disk Management, and initialized it. It was available as a 931.00 GB NTFS drive ready to go. I tried Cyberpunk 2077 on it and the game installed very quickly and loading times were short and sweet. Same for Resident Evil Village. NVME drives truly are the best when it comes to gaming and I can't imagine ever going back to SATA-3 mechanical hard drives with their bulk, slowness, and noisiness. Doing video editing with Cyberlink PowerDirector 19 also resulted in tangible improvements in speed and smoothness. With a 11th-gen Tiger Lake Intel Core i7 11370H CPU, 16GB of DDR4-3200, and the 1TB Crucial P5 Plus NVME, my workflow has received a pleasant bump in performance while getting ample storage space. I benchmarked the P5 with CrystalDiskMark 7.0.0 and the results were excellent (see pic). If my Asus laptop had supported the newer PCIe 4.0 standard, my scores would've been higher. Thanks to the backward compatibility, I can still enjoy the drive and transfer it to a PCIe 4.0-supporting motherboard later down the road when I build a new PC within the upcoming year. When it comes to thermals, I was very impressed with the relatively low temperatures. Compared to my older Samsung 960 Evo NVME drive inside the same laptop, the P5 Plus ran 10C lower. I do prop up my laptop using a riser stand to improve airflow and prevent thermal throttling. To manage the P5 Plus from Win10, I downloaded the Crucial Storage Executive app and I liked it for its clean interface and ability to perform firmware updates. === Is it a good buy? === Absolutely. You're getting cutting-edge performance from a big brand-name company with a 5-year warranty.

Really like the improvement in speed these give. Took a long time to get rid of my hard drives but the snappiness of these is great