Micron’s consumer-division, Crucial, has launched its fastest Gen5 SSD to date, the T710, powered by the SMI2508 controller & up to 14.9 GB/s speeds.
Crucial Goes With Silicon Motion’s SM2508 Controller To Power The T710, Its Fastest Gen5 SSD To Date
Press Release: At Computex 2025, Micron Technology expanded its leadership in consumer storage by unveiling its latest high-performance SSDs, the Crucial T710 PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD and the Crucial X10 Portable SSD. Forged from years of dedicated research and development, these next-gen SSDs redefine performance standards across the board by pushing the limits of speed, capacity, and durability, powering your world at full speed.
Crucial T710: Blazing-fast Gen5 speed for gaming and AI
Leveraging cutting-edge NVMe technology and Micron’s G9 NAND, the Crucial T710 delivers unmatched Gen5 performance for pro-level gaming, creative applications, and data-intensive tasks like AI. Boasting our best Gen5 speeds to date, it features up to:
- 14,900 megabytes per second (MB/s) sequential read speeds
- 13,800 MB/s sequential write speeds
- 2.2 million random read speeds
- 2.3 million random write speeds
The T710 delivers up to 67% more IOPs per watt than previous-generation Gen5 drives, running faster and cooler and making it ideal for PCs, laptops, and workstations. The optional integrated heatsink ensures the T710 stays cool under pressure, and capacity options of up to 4TB mean users have the storage space they need for their most demanding projects.
The increasing demands of AI applications require robust hardware for optimal performance. With its dramatically increased energy efficiency and decreased latency, the Crucial T710 is perfect for enabling real-time local data processing on AI PCs, with the speed to load a large language model from SSD to memory in under one second.
Crucial X10: Fast and tough portable storage to expand your digital life
Crucial’s latest portable drive, the X10, delivers read speeds of up to 2,100 MB/s, twice as fast as its predecessor. The X10 is designed for users who need a fast, reliable, and durable solution to back up and store their most important photos, games, movies, documents, and more. With 4TB, 6TB, and 8TB versions available, the Crucial X10 allows users to store massive amounts of data, including up to 500,000 4K photos, 114 games, or 2.6 million MP3 files.
With its sleek, matte-blue design, the X10 is perfect for content creators, gamers, photography hobbyists, and mainstream consumers who require high-speed data transfer and ample storage capacity. Its durable design is IP65 dust- and water-resistant and drop-resistant up to 9.8 feet, making it a vault for your data — secure, portable, and always ready.
The T710 uses Silicon Motion’s SM2508 controller, while the X10 uses the SM2322 controller.
Availability: The Crucial X10 is now available for purchase through e-tailers, retailers, and global channel partners, while the T710 will be available starting in July 2025.
