Crucial T705 2TB SSD Review

The 3DMark Storage Benchmark uses traces recorded from popular games and gaming-related activities to measure real-world gaming performance.

Traces used:

Battlefield V
Loading Battlefield™ V from launch to the main menu.

Call of Duty Black Ops 4
Loading Call of Duty®: Black Ops 4 from launch to the main menu.

Overwatch
Loading Overwatch® from launch to the main menu.

Game Move
Copying the Steam folder for Counter-Strike®: Global Offensive from an external SSD to the system drive.

Game Recording
Recording a 1080p gameplay video at 60 FPS with OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) while playing Overwatch®.

Installing Game
Installing The Outer Worlds® from the Epic Games Launcher.

Game Saving
Saving progress in The Outer Worlds game.

In 3DMark’s Storage Test, the drive averaged 1,299MB/s for the three-game load tests with an average access time of 41µs.The fastest load performance was for the Battlefield V test at 1,827.19MB/s (42µs), next up was Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 at 1,324.98MB/s followed by Overwatch at 746.67MB/s

In the game moving, recording, installing and saving test traces the drive averaged 1,670.49MB/s with an average access time of 31.75µs for the four tests.

The Crucial T705 with Heatsink sits in second place in the Average Overall Bandwidth table with a figure of 866.01MB/s, just behind Corsair's MP700 PRO SE drive. The T705 is 43.06MB/s faster than the heatsink-equipped T700 and 44.06MB/s faster than the standard T700.

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