Crucial offers consumers top-quality, fast and affordable flash storage – accessible to South African resellers or system builders through Syntech Distribution.
Craig Francis, Crucial product manager at Syntech Distribution, explains that Crucial is the consumer brand from Micron Technology, one of the largest memory and flash storage manufacturers in the world.
Globally, Crucial is known for its dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) and solid state drives (SSDs), and is considered to be among the world’s top memory and storage experts.
“Importantly, Micron doesn’t outsource manufacturing to a third party,” Francis says. “All their products are made in-house, which ensures top quality, and that Micron and Crucial retain their positions as premium brands.”
For 17 years, Crucial has provided award-winning products, offering more than 250 000 upgrade options for over 50 000 systems across desktops, laptops, and workstations. With more than 35 years of experience, Crucial is the trusted name behind the memory and storage built into today’s computers, so upgrading to Micron SSDs or memory will have an immediate and noticeable impact on any user’s experience.
The only SSD and DRAM provider that’s based in the US, Micron’s offices are in Boise, Idaho.
New storage offerings
Micron Technology recently 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.
The T710 SSD is being touted as the fastest Gen5 drive yet, turbocharging gaming and creative applications.
The X10 portable drive is described as a powerhouse that effortlessly handles massive backups, games, and photo libraries.
Together, they represent a bold step forward in storage innovation – empowering users to do more, create faster, and move beyond limits.
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 the 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.
The T710, which is available in 1TB, 2TB and 4TB capacities, with and without heatsink, comes in a PCIe 5.0 NVMe M.2 (2280) form factor and boasts endurance of up to 2 400 TBW.
The drive runs Microsoft DirectStorage optimised firmware and protects data with AES-256 encryption with TCG Opal 2.01+. It uses Silicon Motion’s SM2508 controller.
The Crucial T710 has a five-year limited warranty.
Who should buy the T710?
The T710 pushes the boundaries of what’s possible in gaming, creativity, and beyond. As such it is ideal for gamers and creatives who want the performance to win big and create without limits.
Crucial X10: Fast and tough portable storage to expand your digital life
Crucial’s latest portable drive, the X10, delivers blistering read speeds of up to 2 100 MB/s – twice as fast as its predecessor, the Crucial X9 SSD – and offering fast, convenient storage to easily expand a PC gaming library.
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 – all powered by the efficient and high-performance SM2322 controller.
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.
The X10’s durable design is IP65 dust- and water-resistant, as well as drop-resistant up to 9,8 feet (3 metres), making it a vault for your data – secure, portable, and always ready.
The external drive is ideal for videographers, Francis adds. The external SSD is compatible with just about every device and it’s small enough to easily fit into a shirt pocket. It’s also rain-resistant so carrying it when you’re out and about isn’t a problem.
“The Crucial X10 external drive is durable, reliable and compact,” Francis concludes. “This is in line with everything that Crucial does, delivering high-specification products with high speeds. It’s what makes them a leading storage and DRAM manufacturer.”
For more information, visit www.syntech.co.za