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Crucial P3 Plus 4TB Internal SSD PCIe Gen 4 x4 NVMe $249.99

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Lowest price so far on this drive according to CCC and pcpartpicker.

Impressive read/write speeds up to 5000/4200MB/s
Storage

Spacious storage up to 4TB
Performance

Performs up to 43% faster than the fastest Gen3 NVMe SSDs
Trusted Technology

Micron Advanced 3D NAND
Flexibility

Backward compatibility with Gen3
Solid Security

Gen4 technology, SSD management software for performance optimization, and firmware updates give the Crucial P3 Plus Gen4 NVMe SSD everything you need for security and peace of mind.

Maximum Data Transfer Rate
4800 megabytes per second
Maximum Read Speed
4800 megabytes per second
Maximum Write Speed
4100 megabytes per second
Form Factor
M.2 2280
Interface(s)
PCIe Gen 4 x4

So according to wccftech, SSD prices are supposed to bottom out in the first quarter of this year:
https://wccftech.com/ssd-memory-m...nd-slumps/

If it's true, then this may be the best price for a while. For $40 more you get 10X the performance of the Crucial MX500 SATA SSD which is currently $209.99. I'm picking it up for some long term storage.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/cruc...Id=6509710

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B25M8...e=ogi&th=1
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Lowest price so far on this drive according to CCC and pcpartpicker.

Impressive read/write speeds up to 5000/4200MB/s
Storage

Spacious storage up to 4TB
Performance

Performs up to 43% faster than the fastest Gen3 NVMe SSDs
Trusted Technology

Micron Advanced 3D NAND
Flexibility

Backward compatibility with Gen3
Solid Security

Gen4 technology, SSD management software for performance optimization, and firmware updates give the Crucial P3 Plus Gen4 NVMe SSD everything you need for security and peace of mind.

Maximum Data Transfer Rate
4800 megabytes per second
Maximum Read Speed
4800 megabytes per second
Maximum Write Speed
4100 megabytes per second
Form Factor
M.2 2280
Interface(s)
PCIe Gen 4 x4

So according to wccftech, SSD prices are supposed to bottom out in the first quarter of this year:
https://wccftech.com/ssd-memory-m...nd-slumps/

If it's true, then this may be the best price for a while. For $40 more you get 10X the performance of the Crucial MX500 SATA SSD which is currently $209.99. I'm picking it up for some long term storage.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/cruc...Id=6509710

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B25M8...e=ogi&th=1

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Mar 5, 2023
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Jaylux
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Crucial P3 Plus 4TB PCIe Gen4 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD, up to 5000MB/s

Features & details
NVMe (PCIe Gen4 x4) technology with up to 5000MB/s sequential reads, random read/write 650K/900K IOPS
Spacious storage up to 4TB
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/dp/B0B25M8...HEEAYK7AWQ
Mar 5, 2023
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c3688t
Mar 5, 2023
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Been waiting for the m.2 4tb to drop. Way good deal.
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Joe123456
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Quote from Witchesofdeals :
Not the fastest
https://www.gamesradar.com/crucia...0new%20tab).
Definitely not, but I'm using WD SN 850X's for my C-Drive and primary working storage drive. I'm using this for secondary storage. I can't see the logic in getting the SATA MX500 (which is Front Page) for $209 when you can get this for $249.99 unless you are really cash strapped or don't have an available M.2 NVMe slot.
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galets
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FYI: "SSD Endurance: 800 terabytes" - this is by far the lowest number I've seen for 4TB drive. Something is fishy about this drive.

I also seen reports in another thread about crucial SSDs dropping performance enormously once DRAM cache is used up. Like: below spinning drive speeds, which I find hard to believe, but... If anyone knows whether this is the case with this specific model, can you please chime in
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monkeyass408
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Quote from galets :
FYI: "SSD Endurance: 800 terabytes" - this is by far the lowest number I've seen for 4TB drive. Something is fishy about this drive.

I also seen reports in another thread about crucial SSDs dropping performance enormously once DRAM cache is used up. Like: below spinning drive speeds, which I find hard to believe, but... If anyone knows whether this is the case with this specific model, can you please chime in
https://www.pcworld.com/article/7...eview.html
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Joe123456
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Quote from galets :
FYI: "SSD Endurance: 800 terabytes" - this is by far the lowest number I've seen for 4TB drive. Something is fishy about this drive.

I also seen reports in another thread about crucial SSDs dropping performance enormously once DRAM cache is used up. Like: below spinning drive speeds, which I find hard to believe, but... If anyone knows whether this is the case with this specific model, can you please chime in
So here's the conclusion of teh PC World review:

So the P3 Plus is no barn burner among NVMe SSDs. It still seeks 10 times faster than SATA SSDs, and reads and writes dozens of times faster than any hard drive. It's fast—it's just not as fast as others in the benchmarks.

Bottom line

If you want a lot of NVMe storage for not a lot of money (relatively speaking), then currently, the Crucial P3 Plus is what you're looking for. The performance won't be fantastic all the time, but again, this is NVMe, and unless you really stress the drive to the point where it runs out of secondary cache, you'll likely never notice. It's a real bargain.

and here's two additional reviews:

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

So here's my thinking on this drive. First, if you visit pcpartpicker you'll see that the pickings are slim in 4 TB drives. It's much more competitive for 1 TB and 2 TB drives. To move up to a mainstream 4TB drive, you're in the $400 ballpark. This is one of the slowest gen 4 NVMe drives, yet several times faster than the fastest SATA SSD. 800 TBW is consistent with QLC NAND. If you are going to be beating this drive with multiple write/erase cycles daily, you need to spend more for a better drive. If you want a 4 TB drive and you're thinking about getting the Crucial MX500 and you have an available NVMe slot, this is your drive.
Last edited by Joe123456 March 8, 2023 at 05:30 AM.
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arny56
Mar 5, 2023
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I so want to buy this drive but, with prices on SSDs falling like a fire sale at a furniture store, I'm afraid to jump in just yet.

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Mar 6, 2023
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galets
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Quote from arny56 :
I so want to buy this drive but, with prices on SSDs falling like a fire sale at a furniture store, I'm afraid to jump in just yet.
4TB drives are not yet mainstream. The only good one I'm aware of it WD SN850X. Samsung isn't making these period. With that said, if I had to get one right now, I'd pick WD. It might be twice price, but it is faster and 3x higher endurance.
Mar 8, 2023
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srcloudnine
Mar 8, 2023
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For those comparing this vs Gen4 adds, make sure your motherboard and processor can utilize Gen4 at the higher speeds.
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LabRat810
Mar 8, 2023
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Considering there's still a premium on SSDs over 2TB, this isn't a bad deal. I do find myself in agreement with those hesitant to buy, as NAND prices are in near free-fall.
(There are also companies promising to make "Many TB" NVMe SSDs for the consumer market, in the very near future)

I have grabbed myself 2 of the P41 plus drives over the last year. $50/TB for a Gen4 NVMe of 'acceptable performance' was my personal 'buying threshold', and the P41 hit that threshold first.

BTW. 'Slow' Gen4 drives should still be able to operate in Gen4 mode when connected to a Gen4 x1 slot via any of the 'short trace' X1 lane PCIe-M.2 adapters.
(Gen4 x1 is 'as good as' the early PCIe Gen2 boards with 2.0x4 lane NVMe-support, and some budget Gen3 drives only used a 3.0x2 lane.
-Might be handy for a content creator on a shoestring budget: 2 Gen4 drives in 4.0x1 slots and in RAID 0 would make for a great 'scratch drive'. AFAIK, all the X570 boards have 4.0 x1 slots off the chipset.
Last edited by LabRat810 March 7, 2023 at 04:19 PM.
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Lanchon
Mar 8, 2023
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i was unable to find any info on Opal compatibility, encryption, or security anywhere.

i tried contacting Crucial for pointer to PUBLICLY AVAILABLE information on such matters, but there is NO WAY to talk to crucuial: no emal, nothing. there might be a silly chat on certain hours, but i'd have no legal trace of that conversation.

Cruial drives have been found to have ridiculously flawed encryption implementations by researchers reversing their firmwares. i just saw that Crucial sort of acknowledges on their website the existence of "some" research about vulnerabilities (but curiously not the vulnerabilities themselves, much less which ones) and just recommends upgrading the firmware... again without saying which vulns exist, much less which were supposedly fixed by any particular update, or even that any update fixed any such vuln at all. it "sounds" as if you are covered if you upgrade, but they DON'T SAY that, they just let you infer it.

these guys are a poor excuse of a company and don't deserve any trust at all.

buy the sn850x. it might be more expensive, but the OEM is way less doggy and those actually are Opal 2.01 compliant from day one.
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