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4TB Crucial P3 Plus PCIe 4.0 3D NAND NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive

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Various Retailers have the 4TB Crucial P3 Plus PCIe 4.0 3D NAND NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive SSD (CT4000P3PSSD8) on sale for $279.99. Shipping is free.

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Specs:
  • Up to 5000MB/s sequential reads
  • Random read/write 650K/900K IOPS
  • MTTF greater than 1.5 million hours

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Update: This popular deal is still available.

Various Retailers have the 4TB Crucial P3 Plus PCIe 4.0 3D NAND NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive SSD (CT4000P3PSSD8) on sale for $279.99. Shipping is free.

Available:
  • Amazon $279.99
  • Adorama $279.99
    • Back-ordered, but can still be ordered.
  • Best Buy $279.99
  • Newegg $279.99
    • Back-ordered, but can still be ordered.
Thanks to Community Member j3oomerang for finding this deal.

Specs:
  • Up to 5000MB/s sequential reads
  • Random read/write 650K/900K IOPS
  • MTTF greater than 1.5 million hours

Editor's Notes

Written by Corwin | Staff
  • About this Offer:
    • This is $120 lower (30% savings) than the regular price.
  • About this Store:

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untillater
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This has no DRAM and is QLC, 800 TBW . still great for the price.
DillDozer
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Dumbest thing I've read today. It might even beat people using tablets to edit video 🤣
Z_K
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That works out to a bit more than 200GB a day every day for 10 years... Unless you're downloading multiple games a day, you will never reach that limit. Plus that is just the warrantied limit for warranty purposes, it should last much longer than that.

Unless you're using this in a server farm constantly writing data (probably wouldn't be doing that with a consumer SSD anyway), you'll be fine for 10+ years.

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Quote from Jaggsta :
800TBW for 4TB is garbage won't last long in PS5 with updates and game installs.
That works out to a bit more than 200GB a day every day for 10 years... Unless you're downloading multiple games a day, you will never reach that limit. Plus that is just the warrantied limit for warranty purposes, it should last much longer than that.

Unless you're using this in a server farm constantly writing data (probably wouldn't be doing that with a consumer SSD anyway), you'll be fine for 10+ years.
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Keats852
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I once tried to copy 2TB from a spinning HDD to a 2TB NVMe QLC DRAMless drive. It took almost a full day. Never again, spend the extra money.
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Quote from Z_K :
That works out to a bit more than 200GB a day every day for 10 years... Unless you're downloading multiple games a day, you will never reach that limit. Plus that is just the warrantied limit for warranty purposes, it should last much longer than that.

Unless you're using this in a server farm constantly writing data (probably wouldn't be doing that with a consumer SSD anyway), you'll be fine for 10+ years.
I was going to do the math in response to that comment but you beat me to it. Thank you!

There is nothing wrong with this SSD. It will meet the majority of people's needs and at an excellent price.
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Quote from Keats852 :
I once tried to copy 2TB from a spinning HDD to a 2TB NVMe QLC DRAMless drive. It took almost a full day. Never again, spend the extra money.
Wouldn't the copy speed be limited by the max throughput of the HDD, regardless of NVMe SSD type?

I typically get max 100MBps for transfers to/from USB3 external HDD. Recently toyed around with NVMe for the first time & got about 3000MBps for transfers from internal NVMe to external NVMe (the ones I have aren't on the higher end spec wise). The speeds are awesome but I don't really do enough copies to external to justify spending a ton to get a high capacity external NVMe like this one.
Last edited by sknick December 12, 2022 at 04:13 PM.
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Quote from BigBowlOfRice :
Does anyone know if this would work well with PS5?
Very tempting...
Have it installed in mine right now. Working great so far. I picked up a PS5 custom heat sink off of Amazon
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"Gen4 performs 43% faster than Gen3. Not this one, but hey we didn't lie. ;-)"

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Quote from Keats852 :
I once tried to copy 2TB from a spinning HDD to a 2TB NVMe QLC DRAMless drive. It took almost a full day. Never again, spend the extra money.
I just copied to an external HDD USB 3.0, took about 90 minutes. No idea what you're talking about day to copy to this nvme
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chong67
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Does it have a good controller?

I heard Samsung has the best controller.
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Quote from sknick :
Quote from Keats852 :
I once tried to copy 2TB from a spinning HDD to a 2TB NVMe QLC DRAMless drive. It took almost a full day. Never again, spend the extra money.
Wouldn't the copy speed be limited by the max throughput of the HDD, regardless of NVMe SSD type?

I typically get max 100MBps for transfers to/from USB3 external HDD. Recently toyed around with NVMe for the first time & got about 3000MBps for transfers from internal NVMe to external NVMe (the ones I have aren't on the higher end spec wise). The speeds are awesome but I don't really do enough copies to external to justify spending a ton to get a high capacity external NVMe like this one.
The problem with a full disk copy, is that initially the SSD will work with the cache, and it appears to do 4000Mbps, until the cache fills up. Before the cache fills up, the controller just claims the write is done after it is written to the cache, while it takes its time to copy everything in the cache to the native flash. This works really well when your loads are random bursts (like most workloads other than full drive copy). Once the cache fills up, the controller can no longer just write to the cache, it needs to write to native flash, for the 4TB variant of this drive it is around 100Mbps or lower. For the most basic model there is usually less flash chips, so there is no parallel writes to multiple chips compared to higher storage variants, meaning the native speed is even lower. I think something like 50Mbps or 25Mbps for the 500GB model. BTW the sustained write spec is never published. Which is why when SSD makers were bait and switching the underlying flash from TLC to QLC and they don't get in trouble, companies like Crucial doing to their P2 drives, WD to their SN550 drives, Samsung to their 970 EVO Plus. Because the advertised speed is up to 4000Mbps, and sustained 25Mbps is still up to 4000Mbps, there is no published sustained write spec. No promise, no trouble.

For this drive, the cache is the QLC itself working in pseudo-SLC mode. QLC holds 4 bit per cell, but in pseudo-SLC mode it is 1 bit per cell, the cache size is around 1/(2^4/2^1) = 1/8 of the free space available, or around 500GB initially. There is some small amount of over provisioning in all of these SSDs, so in reality it would be a little over 500GB, but note as you fill it up, the cache space available reduces dramatically. For this purpose and for write leveling purpose, you should never utilize more than 80% of your SSD (especially cheap ones without DRAM or decicated cache like this).

But, even with this caveat, I would still recommend something like this for most people. People should not be doing full drive copies every day. And this is sufficient for 95% of the people out there.
Last edited by HappyDome8591 December 12, 2022 at 06:08 PM.
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Quote from lmj7373 :
Amazon has never price matched, you can always return and order again.
They did for a long time...but now haven't for several years.
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Technology advancement is amazing. I remembered I bought some 256GB SSD at around $300 thinking it was finally cheap enough to have SSDs in my systems around ten years ago.
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drslovak
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aww man, i just bought a 2tb not too long ago. I need this for my PS5 since call of duty takes up damn near half of it
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Quote from BigBowlOfRice :
Does anyone know if this would work well with PS5?
Very tempting...
Q: That is working with PS5?
A: This is the model I am using on my PS5. It works well and did consistently well in reviews for use in the PS5.
By AdmiralP on September 25, 2022 See other answers
Q: Is the 4tb compatible with the PS5 and does it come with a heatsink?
A: Thank you for contacting customer service.

I am pleased to confirm that part (CT4000P3PSSD8) is compatible with the PS5 and it will not come up with heatsink.

Yours sincerely,
The Crucial team.
By Micron CPG Customer Service on November 7, 2022

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erikev
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Crucial brand is now owned by Micron Technology. Micron have in the last year performed much better than samsung with their new 176 layer NAND they use in Gen4 and newerGen5 232 layer. Micron was behind samsung in performance 2 years ago, but are now at least 6 month ahead of competition in terms of performance and capacity. The sheer density of these SSDs causes them to run a little hot, but they are designed for that. You could add a heatspreader.

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