Amazon has
4TB Crucial P3 Plus PCIe 4.0 3D NAND NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive SSD (CT4000P3PSSD8) on sale for
$264.99.
Shipping is free.
Adorama has
4TB Crucial P3 Plus PCIe 4.0 3D NAND NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive SSD (CT4000P3PSSD8) on sale for
$264.99.
Shipping is free.
- Note, for Adorama this item is temporarily on backorder, you can order it now and it will ship as soon as it arrives.
Newegg has
4TB Crucial P3 Plus PCIe 4.0 3D NAND NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive SSD (CT4000P3PSSD8) on sale for
$264.99.
Shipping is free.
- Note: Currently backordered and will not be shipped until inventory is confirmed. You will not be charged until this order is processed. Newegg cannot guarantee inventory for backordered items.
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fatlardo 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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The P in the drive names, are just the brand's name for that drive.
PCIe transfer speeds increase dramatically with each generation.
The gen4 one in this post advertises sequential read speeds up to 5000 MB/s and sequential write speeds up to 4200 MB/s.
The gen3 drive they're talking about advertises sequential read/write speeds up to 3500/3000 MB/s, or about 30% slower than the other drive.
There are some new gen5 SSD's coming out that have speeds over 10,000 MB/s, but they'll be pretty expensive for now, as is most new technology.
In order to achieve those speeds the m.2 socket on your motherboard must be rated for that generation of PCIe. Most of the last couple of generations of motherboards have at least one gen4 m.2 slot. Most of the latest generation of motherboards (other than the cheapest of them) have at least one gen 5 m.2 slot. However, SSDs are backwards compatible, if you don't mind the slower speed. if you were to put the gen4 SSD we're talking about in an older motherboard with a gen 3 m.2 slot, you'd likely get speeds similar to the gen3 SSD.
Prices have come way down on SSD's in the past year or two. Most people now keep 1-2 TB drives in their system for all applications, and even some games. It's generally a good idea to have your games on an NVME SSD, to save time in loading and to get the best performance in the game. Also, most modern motherboards now come with 2-4 m.2 slots, but only 4 SATA connectors.
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And keep in mind that both are much faster than an SATA SSD. I went to a Gen3 (3500 MB/s) from an SATA... and it was night and day. Recently upgraded it to this Gen 4, and while slightly faster, it wasn't very noticeable. My main reason for upgrade was 1TB to 4TB.
I do a ton of 4K video editing for my channel where I am constantly swapping files around that range from 1GB to 10GB.
Also, PCI3's cap is 1GB/s if I am correct and NVME is 4 lanes. So that would be a theoretical maximum of 4GB/s whereas PCI 4 doubles that to 8GB/s. And as someone will mention... that is the high limit. You rarely get the max as the system has to do lookups and such, not to mention that the operating system itself eats up bandwidth.
Call me an old hat though, but I remember my first hard drive. 40MB external hard drive for my Mac Classic II. That thing amazed me. And yes... 40MB. Who even knows what the speed was. The internal was 40MB as well. I was also amazed that I could use up to 8MB of it for "Virtual Memory" on OS 7. lol
I wanted to buy something, but I don't want to deal with a failure. Frustrating.
The sequential speed of this drive looks about the same as the 970 Pro, but the Random 4K looks significantly faster (~2800MB/s (P3) vs ~750MB/s (970 Pro). Hmm...
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Wait, this is a Plus version, huh!
Then probably it worth it.
On backorder. Oh well, lol
best buy for $250: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/cruc...Id=65097
Doing informal tests, comparing xfer speeds of writing 714GB data from one SK Hynix P31 drive to another SK Hynix P31 and then writing same data from an SK Hynix P31 to Crucial P3, I found the Crucial P3 to take 3X longer. 21 mins vs 65 mins. Environment was identical inside an LG Gram 15 (16GB RAM, I5-1135G7, PCIe Gen 3.0 dual slots). There is no active cooling or heatsink due to space constraints of a laptop.
If the file xfer had been longer, suspect the comparison would have been even worse as the Crucial seemed to be struggling more. During both tests, the write operation would sometimes halt then resume. Could have been result of the drives have overrun any caching scheme or possibly throttling due to heat. The SK Hynix peaked at 74C while the P3 hit 78C. However, after the file copy was completed, both drives cooled back down quickly 44C and 36C, respectively.
My first inclination is to return the Crucial P3 but not sure there is a suitable replacement in this product niche, namely, comparatively inexpensive mass storage in a NVMe form factor.
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On backorder. Oh well, lol
best buy for $250: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/cruc...Id=6509716 [bestbuy.com]
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Best Buy is $300 - https://www.bestbuy.com/site/cruc...Id=65097
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