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4TB Crucial P3 NVMe PCIe Gen 3 x4 M.2 2280 Solid State Drive

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Various Retailers have 4TB Crucial P3 NVMe PCIe Gen 3 x4 M.2 2280 Solid State Drive (CT4000P3SSD8) on sale for $249.99. Shipping is free.

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Available:Features:
  • Sequential Read: 3500 MB/s
  • Sequential Write: 3000 MB/s
  • SSD Endurance (TBW): 800 Terabytes

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Various Retailers have 4TB Crucial P3 NVMe PCIe Gen 3 x4 M.2 2280 Solid State Drive (CT4000P3SSD8) on sale for $249.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member MarkLahn for finding this deal.

Available:Features:
  • Sequential Read: 3500 MB/s
  • Sequential Write: 3000 MB/s
  • SSD Endurance (TBW): 800 Terabytes

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Written by powerfuldoppler | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • This price is $100 lower (29% savings) than the list price of $349.99.
  • About this product:
    • Rating of 4.7 from over 1,000 Amazon customer reviews.
  • About this store:
  • Please read the Forum Thread for more deal discussion.

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j3oomerang
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For thirty more, you can get the faster gen4 P3 Plus
UltraLaser
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Be aware these are bottom-barrel drives with no DRAM and even though a 5-year warranty they have terrible TBW. Price is in line with the 1TB for $60 so really not much of a deal other than the shear size at this price.

I've had problems with these P3 drives. Phison E21T controller I think? Wouldn't work in my old Mac. Maybe they can eventually do a firmware fix.
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Even though it does not have DRAM, it will use system memory as host memory buffer (HMB). For most users, that will not be an issue at all, as you're not losing the functionality of DRAM.

800TBW means even if you kept this drive for 10 years, you'd have to write 80TB per year (220GB per day) to hit that limit. Or, from warranty perspective, you'd have to write more than double that per day for the TBW to be an issue.

4TB drives always had a premium due to packing so much storage into one drive, so there's value to that compared to a $60 1TB drive. Majority of motherboards come with 2 m.2 slots (premium ones come with more, for sure).

So yeah, this is a good deal. It's not the best of the best, but you shouldn't be expecting that at these prices.

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For thirty more, you can get the faster gen4 P3 Plus
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Quote from j3oomerang :
For thirty more, you can get the faster gen4 P3 Plus
That's a very valid point, probably better for most people.

For my use case, I don't have more pci-e gen 4 ports, they're only gen 3, so I'll take the $30 savings. Thanks for the suggestion!
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Gb1908
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Quote from j3oomerang :
For thirty more, you can get the faster gen4 P3 Plus
The faster they run, the hotter they run.. though ymmv by brand and use case... just generally speaking
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Quote from j3oomerang :
For thirty more, you can get the faster gen4 P3 Plus
Oh god damn it. I just got a P3 plus from Crucial for $300. Currently $285 there.
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Be aware these are bottom-barrel drives with no DRAM and even though a 5-year warranty they have terrible TBW. Price is in line with the 1TB for $60 so really not much of a deal other than the shear size at this price.

I've had problems with these P3 drives. Phison E21T controller I think? Wouldn't work in my old Mac. Maybe they can eventually do a firmware fix.
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Read thru the reviews on the P3 and P3 Plus on TomsHardware. I consider these to be a strong "buy" at these prices.

https://www.tomshardware.com/revi...ssd-review.
https://www.tomshardware.com/revi...-the-cheap

What we have here is a high capacity SSD, relatively speaking, suitable as a secondary drive for mass storage on laptops that support two PCIe slots.
  • High power efficiency. The P3 even exceeds the SK Hynix P31.
  • Low heat, especially the P3
  • Single sided so should fit in any 2280 slot, thinking thin laptops (I have an LG Gram)
  • 800TBW rating is modest but should be more than adequate for a write once / read many scenario.
  • Performance is more than adequate. These are not gaming drives but are not marketed as such.
Given the above, I think a P3 4TB at $250 is a great option if you have an additional PCIe slot and need the storage. Looking forward to see how Solidigm/SK Hynix and other vendors respond.
Last edited by goldenrool December 12, 2022 at 07:43 AM.
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Quote from UltraLaser :
Be aware these are bottom-barrel drives with no DRAM and even though a 5-year warranty they have terrible TBW. Price is in line with the 1TB for $60 so really not much of a deal other than the shear size at this price.

I've had problems with these P3 drives. Phison E21T controller I think? Wouldn't work in my old Mac. Maybe they can eventually do a firmware fix.
Even though it does not have DRAM, it will use system memory as host memory buffer (HMB). For most users, that will not be an issue at all, as you're not losing the functionality of DRAM.

800TBW means even if you kept this drive for 10 years, you'd have to write 80TB per year (220GB per day) to hit that limit. Or, from warranty perspective, you'd have to write more than double that per day for the TBW to be an issue.

4TB drives always had a premium due to packing so much storage into one drive, so there's value to that compared to a $60 1TB drive. Majority of motherboards come with 2 m.2 slots (premium ones come with more, for sure).

So yeah, this is a good deal. It's not the best of the best, but you shouldn't be expecting that at these prices.
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dalto
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It is great to see the prices on these drives falling.

The fact that both the P3 and the P3 plus are QLC drives that rely on HMB is a little unfortunate.

Anyone know how these compare to the Teamgroup MP34? My MB is pcie gen3 so I can't make use of gen4 performance either way,
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got this for $260 couple of weeks ago. probably not worth to return / buy on AMZ 🤣
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ionizer
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as someone else mentioned, pay the $30 more (12%) and just get gen 4. If it were 50% more you could argue against it, but 12% more for something you're not gonna wanna swap out later, makes sense to bite the bullet now
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First-Citazen
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Great drive for file storage and archive purposes!

Like others have said its slow but should be quick enough for storing larger files
Last edited by First-Citazen December 12, 2022 at 10:51 AM.
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rseiler
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Slow? How times have changed that a 3500MB/s drive (even if it's "up to") could have that word used in the same sentence, especially in the context of archiving but even if not. Heck, a normal SATA SSD is very pleasing as a Windows boot drive, and that's only a fraction of the speed of this.
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PAEmbalmer
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Wow! $250. At this rate, in 2 years a 4tb NVME will be in line with an equivalent HDD.
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Quote from muchwow :
Even though it does not have DRAM, it will use system memory as host memory buffer (HMB). For most users, that will not be an issue at all, as you're not losing the functionality of DRAM.

800TBW means even if you kept this drive for 10 years, you'd have to write 80TB per year (220GB per day) to hit that limit. Or, from warranty perspective, you'd have to write more than double that per day for the TBW to be an issue.

4TB drives always had a premium due to packing so much storage into one drive, so there's value to that compared to a $60 1TB drive. Majority of motherboards come with 2 m.2 slots (premium ones come with more, for sure).

So yeah, this is a good deal. It's not the best of the best, but you shouldn't be expecting that at these prices.
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Quote from ionizer :
as someone else mentioned, pay the $30 more (12%) and just get gen 4. If it were 50% more you could argue against it, but 12% more for something you're not gonna wanna swap out later, makes sense to bite the bullet now
The gen 4 of this drive, or SN850X for $375? Will be used as a second drive for files. Feels like it's not a big enough difference to warrant an extra $100, but SN850X seems more future proof.

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