Crucial T710 - SSD - encrypted - 4 TB - internal - M.2 2280 - PCI Express 5.0 (NVMe) - TCG Opal Encryption 2.01

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The Crucial T710 encrypted 4TB for £594.70 ex-VAT is solid value *if* you specifically need a big-capacity NVMe drive with hardware encryption. In day-to-day B2B terms, it’s the kind of SSD that makes sense for server-adjacent roles, VDI/storage acceleration, and “we need fast + we need data-at-rest protection” deployments—without the hassle of software encryption overhead. If you’re upgrading machines that support PCIe 5.0 and you’re already paying for that platform, you’re not leaving performance on the table.

That said, I wouldn’t buy it just because it’s PCIe 5.0. If your hosts are PCIe 4.0, or the bottleneck is the network/CPU/app layer, you may not feel much benefit over cheaper encrypted drives. Also, TCG Opal is great in the right environment, but only if your fleet management and BIOS/OS tooling actually handles it cleanly—otherwise you’re paying for features you can’t fully use. Net: worth it for IT teams who need large, encrypted NVMe with confidence; not worth it if you just want “fast storage” and your infrastructure isn’t set up to take advantage of it.