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Various Retailers have 2TB Crucial P3 Plus PCIe NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive SSD (CT2000P3PSSD8) on sale for $124.99. Shipping is free.

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  • 2TB Ample Storage
  • NVME Interface
  • Up to 5000MB/s sequential read speeds
  • Up to 4200MB/s sequential write speeds
  • Rated MTTF (1.5 million hours for extended longevity/reliability)
  • Backward compatible w/ Gen3 systems
  • Drive is compatible w/ desktops & laptops that accepts PCIE NVMe Gen 4 drives
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  • NVMe (PCIe Gen4 x4) technology with up to 5000MB/s sequential reads, random read/write 680K/850K IOPS
  • Performs up to 43% faster than the fastest Gen3 NVMe SSDs
  • Rated at MTTF greater than 1.5 million hours for extended longevity and reliability
  • Backward compatibility with Gen3

https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Pl...09_70&th=1
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Model: Crucial P3 Plus 2TB 3D NAND PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 Internal SSD, 5000MB/s Read

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FYI: This drive does not have DRAM, but instead uses HMB (some of your system RAM instead). Fine for a game drive, not ideal for a boot drive. The P5 Plus for $25 more has DRAM.
How isn't this instant front page? Where's the love?
What in the actual F retail world? Is it just me or has this season been the most inconsistent roller coaster of pricing? I've never had so many days of snagged-a-deal-joy to buyers remorse from one day to the next.

Now if you'll excuse me I will get yesterday's purchases ready for return to make way for today's deals....again. 😂

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booboloo
12-21-2022 at 01:13 PM.
12-21-2022 at 01:13 PM.
Quote from elefante72 :
When TLC came out everyone said that MLC was the only way to go. I will concede 440 TBW (for this drive) is piss poor..
The durability of QLC is markedly questionable, but for a vast amount of folks these drives are just fine. I purchased 2 for cache (which will get hit pretty well) for my NAS, and they are mirrored so in that case the SPOF is not really there. Also I can get 2 of these drives almost for the cost of one high end MLC. So it is fit for purpose.

Not sure why you wouldn't use this as a boot drive (2TB for boot?), there are not a lot of IOPS/data written in a boot drive. You could partition it up and make the rest usable.

Also when the TBW limit is hit, the warranty goes up in smoke but it's not like some kill switch and the drive fails, that is what is warrantied.

The disturbing trend is pulling out cache from SATA SSD because there is no HMB as a crutch, these drives use quasi SLC cache.
The more bit levels the memory the slower the performance, and the more important it is to keep large portions of the drive empty if using for os/applications drive to preserve performance and write life. The durability drops off a cliff with qlc, having trouble with your boot drive just isn't worth it, especially when the lower price is again undermined by how much you'd have to leave empty to preserve maximum slc cache and all the garbage collection etc.

Leaving your game drive almost full isn't that big a deal, not so much for your os drive as it gets peppered with writes by default.
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LordPope
12-22-2022 at 03:50 PM.
12-22-2022 at 03:50 PM.
Quote from Cheepman :
How often do you reboot? I do it once a month. If you need the P5 version, It will cost $25 more.

https://slickdeals.net/f/16298833-2tb-crucial-p5-plus-pcie-4-0-ssd-up-to-6600mb-s-150-free-s-h
yeah... who Reboots alot in 2022... dont even need to reboot to update video drives mostly... reboot speed is a super dead issue
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wlandy
12-23-2022 at 02:41 PM.
12-23-2022 at 02:41 PM.
It is QLC, and with $20 more and you can get good TLC like SK Hynix P31 2TB.
Not a good bargain.
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d00b
12-24-2022 at 05:56 AM.
12-24-2022 at 05:56 AM.
>very low TBW rating for a 2TB drive. a decent one should be over 1000.

Yes, this is worrying. Endurance (TBW) spec for the Crucial P3 Plus 2TB is only 440TB.

https://crucial.com/ssd/p3-plus/ct2000p3pssd8

The $110 Kingston NV2 2TB has endurance spec of 640TB, which is better, but also low.

https://kingston.com/en/ssd/nv2-nvme-pcie-ssd

I think these are indicative of QLC. If you check endurance ratings of other NVMe's, 2TB capacity tends to have a TBW over 1000TB. These likely reflect TLC's longer endurance.

For example, the Silicon Power A60 2TB ($105 at Amazon) has a TBW of 1200TB. The A80 ($130) has a TBW of 1600TB.

https://silicon-power.com/support...g5/TBW.pdf

https://amazon.com/dp/B07ZQ97H3W $105 Silicon Power A60 2TB

https://amazon.com/dp/B07QR8LD7Y $130 (was recently $115) Silicon Power A80 2TB


>When folks say QLC is "garbage", what does that really mean? That the drives die an early death?

QLC can tolerate fewer write cycles than TLC. I'm ignoring SLC (1st-gen) and MLC (2nd-gen), as current consumer units no longer use these (longer-lasting but less capacity) tech.

People keep harping about speeds. But how long a drive lasts should trump that, at least for low-end NVMe's.


TL/DR: How long a drive lasts matters more than how fast it is. Google for the drive specs and check their endurance/TBW rating.
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12-25-2022 at 10:20 AM.
12-25-2022 at 10:20 AM.
Deal dead? I see $147
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12-25-2022 at 05:44 PM.
12-25-2022 at 05:44 PM.
Now $143, right? Does that mean this is expired?
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12-26-2022 at 09:50 AM.
12-26-2022 at 09:50 AM.
Quote from Sam Hobbs :
Now $143, right? Does that mean this is expired?
I think it is expired.. all these vendors showing 143.99.
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12-26-2022 at 10:36 PM.
12-26-2022 at 10:36 PM.
Damn it! Got it late. No deals now
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LuckyRoscoe
12-27-2022 at 12:04 PM.
12-27-2022 at 12:04 PM.
Bought this thinking to replace the 1tb stock drive inside the trash can. Trash can doesn't even boot when this is installed. Fans ramp up to max and no video. Other brands seem to work. Maybe has something to do with the absence of DRAM.
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