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Nov 20, 2022 8:35 AM
Crucial P3 PCIe 3.0 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD: 2TB
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"Cons
-QLC and DRAM-less
-Low TBW"
Passing even though a good price for 4tb
Now that's a deal.
This is the lowest tier of SSD drives. The TBW looks in line with Inland SSDs (MicroCenter brand).
Even this is fine for a lot of people. I've been using a Crucial P2 as a boot drive. Purchased right around when people discovered Crucial was bait and switching the P2 from TLC to QLC. Sustained write performance is really really really bad. But most of the time people are not doing long write sessions.
This is what happens when you copy too much data at once https://www.amazon.de/gp/customer...SC1A
This drive doesn't even have a dedicated SLC flash. It uses its own QLC in pseudo SLC mode for write caching, which uses 4 bits of QLC space as a single bit, so the cache is in theory one eighth of the empty space. It performs well in benchmarks if your drive is empty. But don't fill these drives past 75~80%, or it will slow down very soon after the overprovisioned space filled.
Obviously for a video editor who spends $2000 on a workstation, don't skim on a $200 2TB drive. But for other people as long as they know how to work around their drives, they will be fine. If you are buying a $600 laptop from Costco, it doesn't make sense to spend $120 on a Samsung 980 Pro or SK P31 1TB.
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"Cons
-QLC and DRAM-less
-Low TBW"
Passing even though a good price for 4tb
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B25LZGGW
Now that's a deal.
Now that's a deal.
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"Cons
-QLC and DRAM-less
-Low TBW"
Passing even though a good price for 4tb
Even this is fine for a lot of people. I've been using a Crucial P2 as a boot drive. Purchased right around when people discovered Crucial was bait and switching the P2 from TLC to QLC. Sustained write performance is really really really bad. But most of the time people are not doing long write sessions.
This is what happens when you copy too much data at once https://www.amazon.de/gp/customer...SC1A
This drive doesn't even have a dedicated SLC flash. It uses its own QLC in pseudo SLC mode for write caching, which uses 4 bits of QLC space as a single bit, so the cache is in theory one eighth of the empty space. It performs well in benchmarks if your drive is empty. But don't fill these drives past 75~80%, or it will slow down very soon after the overprovisioned space filled.
Obviously for a video editor who spends $2000 on a workstation, don't skim on a $200 2TB drive. But for other people as long as they know how to work around their drives, they will be fine. If you are buying a $600 laptop from Costco, it doesn't make sense to spend $120 on a Samsung 980 Pro or SK P31 1TB.
This can make for a good portable external TB3 drive. Pair it with an Ori-co Transparent case - https://www.newegg.com/p/0VN-0003-00233 and you can get pretty fast speeds over thunderbolt.
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