Various Retailers have
4TB Crucial P3 Plus PCIe 4.0 3D NAND NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive SSD (CT4000P3PSSD8) on sale for
$274.99.
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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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I'm leaning towards purchasing either the Crucial P3 (Gen3) or this P3+. My intended use is as a secondary drive on an LG Gram. The notebook only supports PCIe Gen 3 so will not benefit from any additional speed the P3+ would offer. I could probably justify the additional cost for "future proofing" but realistically speaking, when I move to another laptop, the performance delta not that great and by then, Gen 4 may be considered obsolete.
Aside from slightly lower cost, a primary draw of the P3 is power efficiency and heat, especially important with any laptop. According to TomsHardware.com, the P3 was the most power efficient NVMe SSD ever tested, better than either SK Hynix Gold / Platinum and besting the P3+ by 13%.
But I'm wondering, would the P3+ be more power efficient running in a PCIe Gen 3 environment? The speed (thru put) performance should be close to the same for either the P3 or P3+ but would the P3+ consume less power in a PCIe Gen 3 machine?
I'm leaning towards purchasing either the Crucial P3 (Gen3) or this P3+. My intended use is as a secondary drive on an LG Gram. The notebook only supports PCIe Gen 3 so will not benefit from any additional speed the P3+ would offer. I could probably justify the additional cost for "future proofing" but realistically speaking, when I move to another laptop, the performance delta not that great and by then, Gen 4 may be considered obsolete.
Aside from slightly lower cost, a primary draw of the P3 is power efficiency and heat, especially important with any laptop. According to TomsHardware.com, the P3 was the most power efficient NVMe SSD ever tested, better than either SK Hynix Gold / Platinum and besting the P3+ by 13%.
But I'm wondering, would the P3+ be more power efficient running in a PCIe Gen 3 environment? The speed (thru put) performance should be close to the same for either the P3 or P3+ but would the P3+ consume less power in a PCIe Gen 3 machine?
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(And no, I don't care about anyone's pron collection, which an SSD seems kind of pointless for anyway.)
I'm leaning towards purchasing either the Crucial P3 (Gen3) or this P3+. My intended use is as a secondary drive on an LG Gram. The notebook only supports PCIe Gen 3 so will not benefit from any additional speed the P3+ would offer. I could probably justify the additional cost for "future proofing" but realistically speaking, when I move to another laptop, the performance delta not that great and by then, Gen 4 may be considered obsolete.
Aside from slightly lower cost, a primary draw of the P3 is power efficiency and heat, especially important with any laptop. According to TomsHardware.com, the P3 was the most power efficient NVMe SSD ever tested, better than either SK Hynix Gold / Platinum and besting the P3+ by 13%.
But I'm wondering, would the P3+ be more power efficient running in a PCIe Gen 3 environment? The speed (thru put) performance should be close to the same for either the P3 or P3+ but would the P3+ consume less power in a PCIe Gen 3 machine?
https://www.microcenter
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/cruc...Id=65097
https://www.newegg.com/crucial-4t...6820156302
https://www.bhphotovide
In its defense 1) it can absorb ~550GB of sequential writes at north of 4GB/s before the cache is overwhelmed and 2) this particular usage pattern I'm describing is way outside of how most people are going to use it.
So all in all it is a pretty good deal if you need a system drive of some kind. For me though, I'm looking for a 4TB m.2 SSD to use in an external enclosure for bulk data transport; so this is probably not going to be the one for me.
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