The Crucial P5 Plus is a solid-state drive in the M.2 2280 form factor, launched on August 3rd, 2021. It is available in capacities ranging from 500 GB to 2 TB. This page reports specifications for the 2 TB variant. With the rest of the system, the Crucial P5 Plus interfaces using a PCI-Express 4.0 x4 connection. The SSD controller is the DM02A1 from Micron, a DRAM cache chip is available. Crucial has installed 176-layer TLC NAND flash on the P5 Plus, the flash chips are made by Micron. To improve write speeds, a pseudo-SLC cache is used, so bursts of incoming writes are absorbed more quickly. The cache is sized at 200 GB, once it is full, writes complete at 1800 MB/s. Thanks to support for the fast PCI-Express 4.0 interface, performance is excellent. The P5 Plus is rated for sequential read speeds of up to 6,600 MB/s and 5,000 MB/s write; random IO reaches 720K IOPS for read and 700K for writes.
At its launch, the SSD was priced at 368 USD. The warranty length is set to five years, which is an excellent warranty period. Crucial guarantees an endurance rating of 1200 TBW, a typical value for consumer SSDs.