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Crucial P3 PCIe 3.0 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD: 2TB

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Various Retailers have Crucial P3 PCIe 3.0 3D NAND NVMe M.2 Solid State Drives on sale for prices listed below. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member CrazyHorse for sharing this deal.

2TB Crucial P3 PCIe 3.0 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD (CT2000P3SSD8) $139.99 > now $136.99

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    • The price for 500GB Crucial P3 SSD is $17 lower (34% savings) than the listed retail price.
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    • This item has a rating of 4.7 stars out of 5 based on over 630 customer reviews on Amazon.com.
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500GB Crucial P3 PCIe 3.0 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD (CT500P3SSD8) $32.991TB Crucial P3 PCIe 3.0 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD (CT1000P3SSD8) $62.89
4TB Crucial P3 PCIe 3.0 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD (CT4000P3SSD8) $322.99
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Amazon.com [amazon.com] has the Crucial P3 Series NVMe Internal Solid State Drives for

500gb $32.99
1TB $62.89
2TB $139.99
4TB $322.99

About this item
NVMe (PCIe Gen3 x4) technology with up to 3500MB/s sequential reads, random read/write 350K/460K IOPS
Spacious storage up to 4TB
Performs up to 33% better than the previous generation
Solid Gen3 performance
Rated at MTTF greater than 1.5 million hours for extended longevity and reliability
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Model: Crucial P3 500GB 3D NAND PCIe Gen3 NVMe M.2 Internal SSD, 3500MB/s Read

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Best Buy$53.99
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From Tom's Hardware:
"Cons
-QLC and DRAM-less
-Low TBW"

Passing even though a good price for 4tb
Did anyone else read this as 4tb for $32.99.

Now that's a deal.
No. If you need DRAM cache look at this https://slickdeals.net/f/16220146-1tb-sabrent-rocket-extreme-pcie-4-0-nvme-m-2-ssd-80-free-shipping



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...SC1AIYMOH2 After around 1/4 of the empty space's worth of storage is taken by cache, the real copy rate drops below 80MB/s.

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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Amazon [amazon.com] has Crucial P3 1TB PCIe 3.0 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD for $62.89. Shipping is free.

Price:
$27.10 lower (30% savings) than the list price of $89.99

Customer reviews:
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About this Item:
  • NVMe (PCIe Gen3 x4) technology with up to 3500MB/s sequential reads, random read/write 650K/700K IOPS
  • Spacious storage up to 4TB
  • Performs up to 33% better than the previous generation
  • Solid Gen3 performance
  • Rated at MTTF greater than 1.5 million hours for extended longevity and reliability

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Does this have the good dram cache that we want?
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Quote from carwash1976 :
Does this have the good dram cache that we want?

From Tom's Hardware:
"Cons
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-Low TBW"

Passing even though a good price for 4tb
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lowest price since launch according to camel camel

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11-22-2022 at 06:16 AM.
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This is decent but the sn850x 4TB has cropped up a couple times for ~$370 which is just way better
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11-22-2022 at 03:01 PM.
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Did anyone else read this as 4tb for $32.99.

Now that's a deal.
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Quote from FreeSmith :
Did anyone else read this as 4tb for $32.99.

Now that's a deal.
Yes, that's what it actually says, title needs to be updated.
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11-22-2022 at 05:02 PM.
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will never buy crucial SSDs again. the TBW is just way too low compared to everything else.
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So I assume, based on the cons, these would be good for storage if a laptop has 2 slots?
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Quote from carwash1976 :
Does this have the good dram cache that we want?
No. If you need DRAM cache look at this https://slickdeals.net/f/16220146-1tb-sabrent-rocket-extreme-pcie-4-0-nvme-m-2-ssd-80-free-shipping

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From Tom's Hardware:
"Cons
-QLC and DRAM-less
-Low TBW"

Passing even though a good price for 4tb
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...SC1AIYMOH2 After around 1/4 of the empty space's worth of storage is taken by cache, the real copy rate drops below 80MB/s.

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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I would argue the Sabrent PCIe 4 DRAM drive is worth $80 compared to $63 for this one. https://slickdeals.net/f/16220146-1tb-sabrent-rocket-extreme-pcie-4-0-nvme-m-2-ssd-80-free-shipping But this drive is sold by Amazon which can be combined with the various shop with points offer making it under $40, and the Sabrnet can't be combined with the same offer. So this still has an edge post promotion.
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This is 3rd gen. Not 4th gen. Which what you need with a PS5.
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best used for game drives...
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