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The Crucial T700 is a flagship PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD, reaching sequential speeds around 12,400 MB/s, roughly double a fast Gen4 drive. It is aimed at creators and enthusiasts with a Gen5 slot who move very large files. It runs hot and needs strong cooling, so buy the heatsink version or ensure your board has a Gen5 M.2 heatsink. The table ranks in-stock T700 listings by live price per terabyte.
For sustained sequential workloads, large media, 3D projects and data sets, the T700's Gen5 throughput is a real advantage. For gaming and everyday use the benefit over a good Gen4 drive is small, while the price and heat are higher. Treat it as a specialist creator drive rather than a general upgrade, and always run it with a heatsink.
It reaches around 12,400 MB/s sequential read, roughly double a fast Gen4 drive, on a PCIe Gen5 slot. Real-world gaming gains are small; the benefit shows in large sequential transfers.
Yes. Gen5 drives run hot, and the T700 needs strong cooling. Buy the heatsink version or use your motherboard's Gen5 M.2 heatsink to avoid throttling.
Not really. For gaming a Gen4 drive like the T500 delivers nearly the same load times for less money and heat. The T700 suits creators with heavy sequential workloads.