Crucial P3 4TB PCIe Gen3 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD, up to 3500MB/s - CT4000P3SSD8 $200

b.arms

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PCIe Gen 3
QLC
No DRAM
800TBW

This has impressive performance given its hardware limitations. Large continuous file transfers are going to be an issue as the drive fills up because of the QLC and the lack of DRAM.

This would be good as a second drive for the average user. You could use this in place of a larger HDD as a secondary drive, especially if you motherboard has 2 NVMe slots.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/7...price.html

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PCIe Gen 3
QLC
No DRAM
800TBW

This has impressive performance given its hardware limitations. Large continuous file transfers are going to be an issue as the drive fills up because of the QLC and the lack of DRAM.

This would be good as a second drive for the average user. You could use this in place of a larger HDD as a secondary drive, especially if you motherboard has 2 NVMe slots.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/7...price.html [pcworld.com]

Agreed, I'm using the 2TB version of this ( was on sale for $51 at bestbuy) as a main drive for my home/work laptop. It works decently, but it does have an issue of hitting 0 transfer speed and freezing the computer for several seconds during very heavy write duty task suck as installing a very large game such as GTA V and RDR 2. Besides this I haven't notice a difference from my prior mid-range nvme with dram. Probably better as as a secondary drive if you have the luxury of an extra nvme slot in your device.

There is also a setting in the cruical ssd app called "momentum cache" that suppose to use ram as cache to increase drive life and speed. It's good to use on device with a backup UPS such as laptop otherwise corruption might happen.

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v2100

Apr 22, 2023 9:26 PM

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Momentum cache just delays the inevitable write slowdown by using system RAM as a bit of additional buffer on top of the drive's SLC buffer. Definitely don't want to use that without a UPS.

I had one of the P3 Plus drives die on me after a few hundred GB of writes. Probably semi defective flash. But it got me reading about QLC NAND and I will probably avoid that stuff for now. TLC flash was already pretty lame but QLC is something else.

Last edited by v2100 April 22, 2023 at 02:35 PM.

AmusedPlastic6071

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Which drive has dram? Samsung pro 980? WD 850? Thanks

CMather88

Apr 24, 2023 5:26 PM

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CMather88Apr 24, 2023 5:26 PM

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Would this be suitable for the PS5? (Thanks in advance)

EagerFriction6959

Apr 25, 2023 1:18 PM

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Quote from jinmc

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Agreed, I'm using the 2TB version of this ( was on sale for $51 at bestbuy) as a main drive for my home/work laptop. It works decently, but it does have an issue of hitting 0 transfer speed and freezing the computer for several seconds during very heavy write duty task suck as installing a very large game such as GTA V and RDR 2. Besides this I haven't notice a difference from my prior mid-range nvme with dram. Probably better as as a secondary drive if you have the luxury of an extra nvme slot in your device.

There is also a setting in the cruical ssd app called "momentum cache" that suppose to use ram as cache to increase drive life and speed. It's good to use on device with a backup UPS such as laptop otherwise corruption might happen.

Check to Temp's of the SSD to make sure it's not thermal throttling during intense writes.

Teaser38

Apr 26, 2023 4:01 AM

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Quote from CMather88

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Would this be suitable for the PS5? (Thanks in advance)

Need to spend another $25 for the P3 Plus.

Better would be this:
https://www.amazon.com/Acer-Preda...28e6d374b3

Last edited by Teaser38 April 25, 2023 at 09:14 PM.

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