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1TB Crucial P5 3D NAND NVMe Internal Solid State Drive

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Best Buy has 1TB Crucial P5 3D NAND NVMe Internal Solid State Drive (CT1000P5SSD8) for $89.99. Shipping is free or choose curbside pickup where stock permits.

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Features:
  • Innovative 3D NAND and cutting-edge controller technology, with read and write performance up to 3400/3000MB/s, pushing the limits of PCIe Gen 3 NVMe for tech enthusiasts, professional designers, and serious gamers
  • Capable of enhancing data security and management with rapid, full-drive encryption, helping protect your data without performance degradation
  • Optimize performance and durability with dynamic write acceleration, error correction, and adaptive thermal protection
  • Operating systems open almost instantly, apps launch in seconds, and games load before you're ready to spawn

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  • About this deal:
    • Our research indicates that this offer is $30 lower (25% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting from $119.99.
    • This price is $10 less than this recent Frontpage deal.
  • About this product:
    • Rated 4.7 stars out of 5 overall based on 300+ reviews on Best Buy
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Best Buy has 1TB Crucial P5 3D NAND NVMe Internal Solid State Drive (CT1000P5SSD8) for $89.99. Shipping is free or choose curbside pickup where stock permits.

Thanks to Community Member bennycast for finding this deal.

Note: Availability for curbside pickup may vary by location.

Features:
  • Innovative 3D NAND and cutting-edge controller technology, with read and write performance up to 3400/3000MB/s, pushing the limits of PCIe Gen 3 NVMe for tech enthusiasts, professional designers, and serious gamers
  • Capable of enhancing data security and management with rapid, full-drive encryption, helping protect your data without performance degradation
  • Optimize performance and durability with dynamic write acceleration, error correction, and adaptive thermal protection
  • Operating systems open almost instantly, apps launch in seconds, and games load before you're ready to spawn

Editor's Notes

Written by SubZero5 | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • Our research indicates that this offer is $30 lower (25% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting from $119.99.
    • This price is $10 less than this recent Frontpage deal.
  • About this product:
    • Rated 4.7 stars out of 5 overall based on 300+ reviews on Best Buy
  • About this store:

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Model: Crucial P5 - SSD - encrypted - 1 TB - internal - M.2 2280 - PCIe 3.0 (NVMe)

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BlockofWood
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Extended holiday return period of up to Jan 16 means there really isn't any risk with buying now. You can price match during the return period if something better comes up.
fallbreak
517 Posts
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Good price. Have this exact one and can confirm it runs quite hot - if you plan to put it into laptop, might look for something else.
jzhang918
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https://www.tomshardware.com/revi...d-review/3

PROS

+ Competitive pricing and specs
+ Hardware-based AES 256-bit encryption
+ Available in capacities up to 2TB
+ Blacked-out aesthetics
+ 5-year warranty
+ Software suite

CONS

- Lower than average performance
- High heat output
- Runs hot and lacks heat spreader

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jzhang918
Oct 19, 2021
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https://www.tomshardware.com/revi...d-review/3

PROS

+ Competitive pricing and specs
+ Hardware-based AES 256-bit encryption
+ Available in capacities up to 2TB
+ Blacked-out aesthetics
+ 5-year warranty
+ Software suite

CONS

- Lower than average performance
- High heat output
- Runs hot and lacks heat spreader
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Oct 19, 2021
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RangerJay
Oct 19, 2021
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Crucial/Micron has been pushing out lots of deals. Even tho this is basically a no brainer at the price point, I'd wait till BF
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BlockofWood
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Quote from RangerJay :
Crucial/Micron has been pushing out lots of deals. Even tho this is basically a no brainer at the price point, I'd wait till BF
Extended holiday return period of up to Jan 16 means there really isn't any risk with buying now. You can price match during the return period if something better comes up.
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Good price. Have this exact one and can confirm it runs quite hot - if you plan to put it into laptop, might look for something else.
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gamingdroid
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Quote from jzhang918 :
https://www.tomshardware.com/revi...d-review/3 [tomshardware.com]

PROS

+ Competitive pricing and specs
+ Hardware-based AES 256-bit encryption
+ Available in capacities up to 2TB
+ Blacked-out aesthetics
+ 5-year warranty
+ Software suite

CONS

- Lower than average performance
- High heat output
- Runs hot and lacks heat spreader
For the encryption, does it require any software to encrypt?
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Oct 19, 2021
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IversonJu
Oct 19, 2021
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https://youtu.be/qdqA53-q6KA I purchased 1TB from Amazon earlier this month, looks like Crucial has thrown QLC NAND into it, be aware.
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RangerJay
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Quote from BlockofWood :
Extended holiday return period of up to Jan 16 means there really isn't any risk with buying now. You can price match during the return period if something better comes up.
Fair point. It would still be somewhat a hassle pulling the drive out and plug in new one then install everything if that's your boot drive. If you are not in a rush to build (say waiting for the next GPU drop), be patient and see if there's better deals around

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Oct 19, 2021
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JesseH5623
Oct 19, 2021
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Seems good for 1tb if you don't need 7000 mb read
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Wookiestick
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Oct 19, 2021
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Wasn't sure, so I looked it up. According to Amazon answers and a Crucial rep, the p series m.2 do not have DRAM.
Oct 19, 2021
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FuschiaPiranha299
Oct 19, 2021
51 Posts
Quote from RangerJay :
Fair point. It would still be somewhat a hassle pulling the drive out and plug in new one then install everything if that's your boot drive. If you are not in a rush to build (say waiting for the next GPU drop), be patient and see if there's better deals around
you wouldn't pull the drive out, it works by if you purchase some things on newegg covered by this, they'll automatically refund the price difference if it drops down during black friday time area. So you don't return and get a new one, you just get the price difference refunded.
Oct 19, 2021
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pyrux
Oct 19, 2021
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Quote from IversonJu :
https://youtu.be/qdqA53-q6KA I purchased 1TB from Amazon earlier this month, looks like Crucial has thrown QLC NAND into it, be aware.
Hate that they keep nerfing these drives without changing sku's
Oct 19, 2021
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josluis86
Oct 19, 2021
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Does anyone know if it's compatible with PS5? TIA!
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gamingdroid
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Quote from pyrux :
Hate that they keep nerfing these drives without changing sku's
Quote from IversonJu :
https://youtu.be/qdqA53-q6KA I purchased 1TB from Amazon earlier this month, looks like Crucial has thrown QLC NAND into it, be aware.
How can we tell if we ended up with the cheaper QLC NAND?

I bought this exact drive back in end of June 2021. It didn't feel much of an upgrade over my SATA SSD so it makes me wonder.
Oct 20, 2021
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ChySan
Oct 20, 2021
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Quote from josluis86 :
Does anyone know if it's compatible with PS5? TIA!
It isn't. It's PCIe gen 3 rather than gen 4.

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Quote from gamingdroid :
How can we tell if we ended up with the cheaper QLC NAND?

I bought this exact drive back in end of June 2021. It didn't feel much of an upgrade over my SATA SSD so it makes me wonder.
They never are, all these speeds are in ideal sequential setting so in reality pcie SSDs are make barely noticeable improvements over sata SSDs (except for certain specific workloads). E.g. you might see it if you copy massive files from one place to another but bare in mind that in most cases that "other" place will be a bottleneck so again you don't see it. Also loading of massive games or programs should be faster. In my experience upgrading from HDD to SSD was the most impactful upgrade I have ever done on a computer. Sata to pcie I never actually noticed a difference...

what you actually care about is random iops (how long it takes it to find something at a random place) this SSDs have miles better than HDDs and you can see very little difference between sata and pcie SSDs. The only thing which was actually making a difference but I never got around to try it is optane.
Last edited by CleverMustang771 October 19, 2021 at 06:21 PM.
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