What’s the difference between the Crucial P5 and P5 Plus?

Crucial recently released the P5 Plus. You can check out this comparison guide to see how the new M.2 solid state drive compares to the older P5.

Quick Summary

The Crucial P5 Plus is 94.12% faster than the Crucial P5 at maximum sequential reading. The Plus version is also 20% faster at the 500 GB capacity in addition to being 66.67% faster at the 1 TB and 2 TB capacities at maximum sequential writing.

Furthermore, the P5 Plus is the only one of these two products to come with support for Device Sleep and TCG OPAL 2.0.

While these two solid state drives have the same endurance (TBW) rating and warranty length, the Plus version does have a longer reliability (MTTF) rating.

Overall, we recommend getting the P5 Plus due to the better read and write speed performances in addition to better reliability.

You can also see how the P5 stacks up against the P1 and P2 with this article.

P5 vs. P5 Plus Comparison Chart

You can take a look at Seeking Tech’s comparison table for the P5 and P5 Plus below.

Capacity Options

When it comes to capacities, the P5 is the only product in this comparison to offer a 250 GB option.

You can find a breakdown of the available options for both storage products below:

Crucial P5:

• 250 GB
• 500 GB
• 1 TB
• 2 TB

Crucial P5 Plus:

• 500 GB
• 1 TB
• 2 TB

Model Numbers

You can also check out the model numbers for each of the aforementioned capacities below:

• 250 GB Crucial P5: CT250P5SSD8
• 500 GB Crucial P5: CT500P5SSD8
• 1 TB Crucial P5: CT1000P5SSD8
• 2 TB Crucial P5: CT2000P5SSD8

• 500 GB Crucial P5 Plus: CT500P5PSSD8
• 1 TB Crucial P5 Plus: CT1000P5PSSD8
• 2 TB Crucial P5 Plus: CT2000P5PSSD8

What’s in the Box

In addition to the actual solid state drive, both products include the Crucial Storage Executive and Acronis True Image for Crucial software in addition to an installation guide.

You can check out a breakdown of the content included inside each box for both below:

Crucial P5:

• P5 Solid State Drive
• Crucial Storage Executive
• Acronis True Image for Crucial
• Crucial Easy SSD Install Guide

Crucial P5 Plus:

• P5 Plus Solid State Drive
• Crucial Storage Executive
• Acronis True Image for Crucial
• Crucial Easy SSD Install Guide

Form Factor

The P5 and P5 Plus are both M.2 2280 drives.

Memory Components

When it comes to the memory components, both of the solid state drives in this versus guide are equipped with 3D NAND.

Interface

As for the interface, the P5 uses PCIe Gen3 NVMe while the P5 Plus uses PCIe Gen4 NVMe.

Maximum Sequential Read Speed

When you compare the same capacities, the 500 GB, 1 TB and 2 TB versions of the Crucial P5 Plus are 3200 MB per second faster, or 94.12% faster, than the 500 GB, 1 TB and 2 TB versions of the Crucial P5 at maximum sequential reading.

You can check out the maximum sequential read speeds below:

• 250 GB Crucial P5: Up to 3400 MB per second
• 500 GB Crucial P5: Up to 3400 MB per second
• 1 TB Crucial P5: Up to 3400 MB per second
• 2 TB Crucial P5: Up to 3400 MB per second

• 500 GB Crucial P5 Plus: Up to 6600 MB per second
• 1 TB Crucial P5 Plus: Up to 6600 MB per second
• 2 TB Crucial P5 Plus: Up to 6600 MB per second

Maximum Sequential Write Speed

As for maximum sequential writing, the 500 GB Crucial P5 Plus is 600 MB per second faster, or 20% faster, than the 500 GB Crucial P5.

The 1 TB and 2 TB versions of the Crucial P5 Plus are 2000 MB per second faster, or 66.67% faster, than the 1 TB and 2 TB versions of the Crucial P5.

You can take a look at the maximum sequential write speeds below:

• 250 GB Crucial P5: Up to 1400 MB per second
• 500 GB Crucial P5: Up to 3000 MB per second
• 1 TB Crucial P5: Up to 3000 MB per second
• 2 TB Crucial P5: Up to 3000 MB per second

• 500 GB Crucial P5 Plus: Up to 3600 MB per second
• 1 TB Crucial P5 Plus: Up to 5000 MB per second
• 2 TB Crucial P5 Plus: Up to 5000 MB per second

General Features

When it comes to general features, the P5 Plus is the only one out of these two SSDs to support Device Sleep and TCG OPAL 2.0.

You can find the full list of general features for both storage drives below:

Crucial P5:

• Active Garbage Collection
• Adaptive Thermal Protection
• APST
• Dynamic Write Acceleration
• ECC
• Integrated Power Loss Immunity
• Multistep Data Integrity Algorithms
• RAIN
• SMART
• TRIM

Crucial P5 Plus:

• Active Garbage Collection
• Adaptive Thermal Protection
• APST
• Device Sleep
• Dynamic Write Acceleration
• ECC
• Integrated Power Loss Immunity
• Multistep Data Integrity Algorithms
• RAIN
• SMART
• TCG OPAL 2.0
• TRIM

Endurance (TBW)

When you compare the same capacity sizes, the P5 and P5 Plus have the same endurance rating.

You can check out the Terabytes Written specifications below:

• 250 GB Crucial P5: 150 TBW
• 500 GB Crucial P5: 300 TBW
• 1 TB Crucial P5: 600 TBW
• 2 TB Crucial P5: 1200 TBW

• 500 GB Crucial P5 Plus: 300 TBW
• 1 TB Crucial P5 Plus: 600 TBW
• 2 TB Crucial P5 Plus: 1200 TBW

Reliability (MTTF)

The Plus version of the P5 does have a longer reliability rating than the regular version, however.

You can find the Mean Time to Failure specs below:

• Crucial P5: 1,800,000 hours
• Crucial P5 Plus: 2,000,000 hours

Operating Temperature

The P5 and P5 Plus have the same operating temperature range, which is from 0 °C to 70 °C.

Compliances

You can find a list of compliances for these Crucial SSDs below:

Crucial P5:

• BSMI
• CE
• China RoHS
• Halogen Free
• FCC
• ICES
• KC
• Morocco
• RCM
• VCCI
• TUV
• Ukraine
• UL
• WEEE

Crucial P5 Plus:

• BSMI
• CE
• China RoHS
• FCC
• Halogen Free
• KC
• ICES
• Morocco
• RCM
• TUV
• UKCA
• Ukraine
• UL
• VCCI
• WEEE

Warranty

The Crucial P5 3D NAND NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive and Crucial P5 Plus PCIe 4.0 3D NAND NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive each comes with a 5-year warranty.

Resources:

• https://www.crucial.com/content/dam/crucial/ssd-products/P5/flyer/crucial-P5-productflyer-consumer.pdf
• https://www.crucial.com/content/dam/crucial/ssd-products/p5-plus/flyer/b2c/crucial-P5-plus-productflyer-consumer.pdf