In order to test the NVME drive we used the following configuration:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X
• Motherboard: Asus ProArt X670E-CREATOR WIFΙ with 3112 BIOS
• Main Storage: Samsung 980Pro 1TB
• Operating system: Windows 11 x64 + latest motherboard/AMD chipset drivers installed (DirectStorage enabled drive)

Since our motherboard supports TWO Gen5 drives, we installed at the closest to the CPU NVME slot the Crucial T710 2TB NVME SSD, at the second PCIe Gen5 slot, a Crucial T705 2TB NVME SSD as well. Since the Crucial T710 doesn't have a heatsink we used the be quiet! MC1 Pro heatsink with no additional fan and we can say that the T710 drive delivered good performance since even under heavy testing didn't pass 78 Celsius, while seats mostly around 61 Celsius (idle). Compared with the T705 in a similar scenario, we did witness a reading/writing slowdown, since the drive passed 80 Celsius. Keep in mind that the drive can go up to 88 Celsius before shutdown, so we can say that for normal use, it can work without any problems with laptops/PS5 systems.

Starting our tests, we used many different CrystalDiskMark software versions to get how the drive would perform.

The latest CrystalDiskMark 9.0.1 promises up to 14.4GB/sec reading and 13.23ΒB/sec writing performance with sequential files.

Compared with the T700/Τ705 2TB NVME SSD, we see higher sequential reading/writing, while SEQ1M is much higher for the T710 series. The RND4K Q32T1 numbers compared with the T700 series are better, however equal to what the T705 delivers, however at the RND4K Q1T1, the T710 is faster, even by a small margin at reading and higher margin at writing speeds.

In the latest ATTO Disk Benchmark 4.01.0f1 version, we got very high results, up to 13.84GB/sec reading and 12.50GB/sec writing performance.

Compared with the T700/T705 series, the T710 series performs constantly and without any performance dropdown, like the T705 did.

At the I/O Meter test, the Crucial T710 showed high performance with 154.771,26 points and much lower max I/O response time, compared with both T700/T705 series.

Crucial T710

Crucial T705

Crucial T700

Passing to the writing performance, the T710 is a solid performer, provided that you have a very fast (PCIe Gen5) NVME SSD drive. For our tests, we used as the source a Crucial T705 and copied the same files to the Crucial T710 using the Fast Copy software. The reported writing speed was around 10.40GB/sec and the drive will not slow down either with a 44GB or a 200GB file, which is good for creators who have high-sized files to move around.

How about more benchmarks? We did try the PCMark10 Storage test and the T710 came first with 4.776 points compared with 4.645 points for the T705 and 4.528 points for the T700 series.

The Future 3DMark also includes a storage test that gives us more test results. As expected the T710 is a faster drive and gets a better score compared to both T705 and T700 series.

and the average access times are also slight better for the T710 series.