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expiredj3oomerang posted Dec 11, 2022 07:16 AM
expiredj3oomerang posted Dec 11, 2022 07:16 AM

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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  • Newegg $279.99
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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

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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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Dec 13, 2022 03:16 AM
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erikevDec 13, 2022 03:16 AM
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Quote from erikev :
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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the SSD transfers files 112% faster and loads major games up to 57% faster than comparable competing products. Not to brag too much, Micron said its 2550 also delivers "breakneck" sequential read performance of up to 5 gigabytes per second and sequential write performance of up to 4 gigabytes per second, which are 43% and 33% faster than the previous SSD generation, respectively.

The bigger concern to average users may be power savings. Micron said it is using an advanced process node for the controller and elimination of DRAM by way of Host Memory Buffer technology. Sleep power consumption in the 2550 is under 2.5 milliwatts, while active idle power consumption is under 150 milliwatts and active power consumption is below 5.5 watts.
Dec 13, 2022 03:32 AM
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Teaser38Dec 13, 2022 03:32 AM
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Direct writes on this thing (and the P3) is pretty bad (100 MB/s). This is important if you plan to do very large file transfers frequently or going to operate it full.
Dec 13, 2022 03:48 AM
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whodiiniDec 13, 2022 03:48 AM
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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.
Read the review

https://www.tomshardware.com/revi...d-review/2

It has a 550GB psedocache. Once 550GB is exceeded, the transfer rate goes to 100MB/sec, which is half the speed of a spinning drive. As long as you follow this restriction, you are in good shape.
Dec 13, 2022 04:28 AM
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SlickGame4485Dec 13, 2022 04:28 AM
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Certainly doesn't work without a PCIe 4.0 port, don't know what exactly they mean by backwards compatible.
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Dec 13, 2022 04:34 AM
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motaku96Dec 13, 2022 04:34 AM
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Dec 13, 2022 05:59 AM
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JohnJonJoinDec 13, 2022 05:59 AM
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Quote from whodiini :
Read the review

https://www.tomshardware.com/revi...d-review/2

It has a 550GB psedocache. Once 550GB is exceeded, the transfer rate goes to 100MB/sec, which is half the speed of a spinning drive. As long as you follow this restriction, you are in good shape.
550GB cache is a bit crazy
Dec 13, 2022 06:13 AM
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GidaeanDec 13, 2022 06:13 AM
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Unless you absolutely need the 4TB density in one M.2 slot, absolutely get one or two of the P5 Plus for $150 each right now instead! The P5 Plus 2TB is TLC with 2GB of DRAM cache (vs QLC with NO dram on the P3). The P5 Plus is in a whole other league, and while the Samsung 980 Pro is overall better, the Crucial P5 Plus is still rated for the PS5 if that tells you anything.

I wouldn't buy the P3 for anything more than a steam game library (vs HDD) or backups in an external USB enclosure.
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Dec 13, 2022 08:57 AM
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trrboDec 13, 2022 08:57 AM
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Quote from DillDozer :
Dumbest thing I've read today. It might even beat people using tablets to edit video 🤣
Found the android user
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Dec 13, 2022 09:02 AM
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trrboDec 13, 2022 09:02 AM
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Nice deal. Need to upgrade my scratchdisk on my desktop!!
Dec 13, 2022 09:02 AM
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ranasif25Dec 13, 2022 09:02 AM
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Work with ps5
Dec 13, 2022 03:54 PM
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CreativeJojoDec 13, 2022 03:54 PM
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I was thinking of going for the P5 plus deal instead of the P3 plus, and I saw it come with with a heatsink variant for $10 more. Is that really necessary for P5 plus?
Dec 13, 2022 05:10 PM
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njramsfanDec 13, 2022 05:10 PM
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Ughh. Best buy. Hurry up post my points to buy this lol.
Dec 13, 2022 06:23 PM
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MacDudeDec 13, 2022 06:23 PM
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Quote from init0 :
What Thunderbolt 3 or 4 enclosure for these please?

Bought a TEKQ Cube Thunderbolt 3 SSD Enclosure last time ($107)

Mac Studio
What did you end up going with? What are your speeds with the TEKQ Cube? OWC is a reputable company and their enclosure is $79: https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/TB3ENVXP00/

In a similar situation so curious to know your speeds.
Last edited by MacDude December 13, 2022 at 11:29 AM.
Dec 13, 2022 06:39 PM
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init0Dec 13, 2022 06:39 PM
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Quote from MacDude :
What did you end up going with? What are your speeds with the TEKQ Cube? OWC is a reputable company and their enclosure is $79: https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/TB3ENVXP00/

In a similar situation so curious to know your speeds.
On pc's during working hours/saved to a mac drive; but I'll quote you back with I bought and tested new.
I don't remember, but something like 3K. I recall the M1 Studio 512G hit like ~5500GB/s.

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Dec 13, 2022 07:51 PM
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divide0Dec 13, 2022 07:51 PM
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Ugh like I don't really need it but I'd def like it. 1tb for games isn't enough when games go up to 100gb each now. My steam library needs to get moved around and uninstalled/reinstalled so often. But then idk what to do with my 1tb lol. Sigh

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