Crucial announces T710 SSD with 14.9 GB/s of performance, X10 portable SSD up to 8TB

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Crucial announces T710 SSD with 14.9 GB/s of performance, X10 portable SSD up to 8TB

Crucial launched its new T710 SSD here in Taipei, Taiwan, at Computex 2025, touting speeds of up to a blistering 14.9 GB/s and 2.2 million IOPS over the PCIe 5.0 interface. The T710 has numerous advantages over the prior-gen model, the T705, which we found to be the fastest SSD on the market at the time and a go-to recommendation on our list of Best SSDs.  Crucial also announced the X10 series of portable SSDs that offer up to 8TB of storage in a slim, attractive form factor. The company also teased a USB4 portable SSD prototype that delivers up to 4GB/s of throughput. 

The Crucial T710 is the focal point, though. Crucial has upped the performance ante on its fastest SSD while cramming it into a slimmer form factor suitable for laptops and lowering power consumption and heat.

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The Crucial T710 will come both with and without a heatsink, with the bare SSDs arriving to market June 1. The heatsink-equipped models will arrive later in the quarter. Notably, the SSD comes in a single-sided form factor that enables use in laptops, a huge advantage over the prior-gen model that will foment broader support from OEMs. 

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Crucial has also slimmed down the thickness (Z-height) of the heatsink-equipped model from 21mm to 11mm, making for a slimmer design courtesy of the new circular air channels (you can see a side-by-side comparison with the prior-gen T705 in the album below). The company also built in an LED activity light into the T710’s PCB, and a diffuser on the top of the heatsink glows white when the drive is chewing through workloads. 

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Speed is the word of the day, though. The T710 provides up to 2.2 million IOPS of random read performance, a 28% gen-on-gen improvement, and 1.8 million IOPS of random write performance, a 42% improvement. Perhaps more impressively, the drive reduces power by 67% and 80% during random read/write workloads, respectively. 

Peak sequential read/write bandwidth weighs in at 14.9 / 13.8 GB/s, with performance varying by the capacity of the drive. The drive also offers between 600 and 2,400 TB of write endurance (TBW), again varying by capacity. The SSD is also optimized for the game-boosting DirectStorage tech.

Crucial uses the SMI 2232 SSD controller with the drive, a notable shift from the Phison SSD controller it used with the T705. This controller has much lower power consumption, which helps with power efficiency and cooling. Micron pairs the controller with its 276-Layer G9 TLC NAND running at a blistering 3,600 MT/s.

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