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The P5 Plus with heatsink comes in a small, blue and white box. Along with a picture of the drive, the packaging advertises a number of its key features including its 1TB capacity, support for PCIe Gen4 NVMe technology, maximum read speed and 5 year warranty. Inside, you'll find the P5 Plus as well as a small guide with information on where you can get additional help and download the migration and cloning software.
Physical Features:
As I mentioned earlier, the main difference between this version of the Crucial P5 Plus and the one we reviewed previously is the addition of an integrated heatsink. Made entirely out of metal, the heatsink has a series of fins along the top which increases the surface area for greater cooling.
The heatsink wraps entirely around the P5 Plus and is attached using hex screws. While this ensures a solid fit, it also adds to the overall width of the drive. Compared to the original P5 Plus, the heatsink equipped version is about 1mm wider. This doesn't sound like much. However, you will want to make sure that the card doesn't hit a PCI slot or any of the other components on your motherboard. With the heatsink's increased height (8mm), you'll also want to be careful that it doesn't interfere with your video card if your motherboard's M.2 slot is below it. That being said, the heatsink-equipped P5 Plus will fit fine in the PlayStation 5 without any problems.
For the 1TB version of the heatsink equipped P5 Plus, Crucial once again opted to use Micron's 176-layer (B47R) 3D TLC NAND flash. If you'd remove the heatsink, you'd see that there are two 512GB NAND flash packages on the top of the PCB. The drive also has a single 1GB Micron LPDDR4 DRAM chip that is used for caching.
