Performance Comparison & Temperatures
We will be comparing the Crucial P5 Plus to a handful of other Gen4 NVMe drives we’ve reviewed lately. Let’s see how it does…
The P5 Plus does not ship with a heatsink or any type of cooling. While most motherboards that will support this drive will come with heatsinks we always run our drives with and without our motherboards integrated heatsinks to see if the drive will throttle at all. Running the drive without a heatsink and going through ATTO Disk Benchmark we can see that it does indeed throttle, reaching a maximum temperature of 74C. Using our motherboards heatsink we did not have any temperature or throttling issues.