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4TB Crucial P3 PCIe Gen3 NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive SSD

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Amazon has 4TB Crucial P3 PCIe Gen3 NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive SSD (CT4000P3SSD8) on sale for $159.99. Shipping is free.

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  • 4TB Storage Capacity
  • M.2 2280 Form Factor
  • PCIe NVMe Gen 3 x4 Interface
  • Up to 3500 MB/s Sequential Read Speed
  • Up to 3000 MB/s Sequential Write Speed
  • Micron 3D NAND
  • 1.5 Million Hour MTTF
  • SMART & TRIM Support

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Amazon has 4TB Crucial P3 PCIe Gen3 NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive SSD (CT4000P3SSD8) on sale for $159.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member DontBreakMy20 for finding this deal.

Product Details:
  • 4TB Storage Capacity
  • M.2 2280 Form Factor
  • PCIe NVMe Gen 3 x4 Interface
  • Up to 3500 MB/s Sequential Read Speed
  • Up to 3000 MB/s Sequential Write Speed
  • Micron 3D NAND
  • 1.5 Million Hour MTTF
  • SMART & TRIM Support

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RussellJohnson
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I think Teamgroup deal is better than this because:
Crucial P3: 800TBW
Teamgroup:MP34: 2400TBW
CoreyR2384
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Terabytes Written. The warranty of SSDs are based on a time period and the amount of data written to the drive (whichever comes first). The warranty ends when one of the two conditions is met. Even though this drive has a 5 year warranty, if you were to write 800TB to the drive in the first year (unlikely), the warranty would be expired. It'll take most users a few years to write that much data to a drive, but 800TBW is incredibly low for a drive of this capacity. Most people look at the TBW as an endurance rating. The higher the TBW, the longer the drive is likely to last. I wouldn't use this drive as an OS drive, since Windows will be regularly writing to the drive and Trimming it (moving data around by deleting data and rewriting it in other places on the drive for faster future writes). It's probably alright for a secondary drive, though.

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itsCaptainSpaulding
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Would this be good for a MacBook's photo library storage?
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MikeE21286
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Quote from Sephoroth :
It's worth noting the P3 Plus (which seems to be slower Gen4) is $177 over at Amazon [amazon.com] as well.
Yeah I think that would be better. The P3 plus will also work in a PS5.
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revaaron
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Damn, I bought 2 of these @ $199ea to make an 8TB RAID0 a few months ago. No complaints.
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Quote from The_Doug :
Is either TLC?
The Team Group is TLC
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Quote from CoreyR2384 :
Terabytes Written. The warranty of SSDs are based on a time period and the amount of data written to the drive (whichever comes first). The warranty ends when one of the two conditions is met. Even though this drive has a 5 year warranty, if you were to write 800TB to the drive in the first year (unlikely), the warranty would be expired. It'll take most users a few years to write that much data to a drive, but 800TBW is incredibly low for a drive of this capacity. Most people look at the TBW as an endurance rating. The higher the TBW, the longer the drive is likely to last. I wouldn't use this drive as an OS drive, since Windows will be regularly writing to the drive and Trimming it (moving data around by deleting data and rewriting it in other places on the drive for faster future writes). It's probably alright for a secondary drive, though.
800 TBW might be low, but let's see how much data that really is...

800 TBW/4TB drive = 200 Drive Writes
5 year warranty = 1826 days
200 drive writes / 1826 days = 0.1095 drive writes per day, or 438 GB of data assuming a write amplification of 1.0.

So if you're writing 438 GB of data to the drive every day, you're probably going to want shell out more money for a faster drive that has better flash and a faster sequential write speed (crucial says 3000 MB/s) than this particular drive.

I think people on SD are putting a bit too much emphasis on TBW when they should be more focused on price, warranty, and speed.
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NateRules
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Quote from AimanA4648 :
I need to fill a SATA port on a mini pc, would it be worth getting this and using it with a SATA adapter over a similarly priced 2.5 SATA drive? Would there be any performance benefit?
No performance benefits because this will be bottlenecked by the Sata adapter bringing it's speeds way down. But this can be used in other applications down the road that I think would make it worth it. You can pull it out and put it in an enclosure at any point and have a huge portable drive. That should be faster than your Sata setup anyway.
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P3 is QLC iirc

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Quote from revaaron :
Damn, I bought 2 of these @ $199ea to make an 8TB RAID0 a few months ago. No complaints.
What enclosure are you using? I'm wanting to do this but the dual bay enclosures I'm finding are almost all limited to 10GBps (or stupid expensive) and the alternative would be separate enclosures and a software raid, but then that's using two usb-c ports.
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revaaron
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Quote from Mooseface :
What enclosure are you using? I'm wanting to do this but the dual bay enclosures I'm finding are almost all limited to 10GBps (or stupid expensive) and the alternative would be separate enclosures and a software raid, but then that's using two usb-c ports.
dell precision 7530 has 3 m.2 spots. Turn off RAID, load them as single drives, and get windows to do their software raid.
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IamRamz
Jul 13, 2023
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I got mine and doesn't work, when trying to initialize disk in windows it fails, then trying MacOS doesn't even get recognized. Tested with multiple nvme enclosures that were housing other 4tb nvme drives. Bad luck I'm guessing
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Quote from AimanA4648 :
I need to fill a SATA port on a mini pc, would it be worth getting this and using it with a SATA adapter over a similarly priced 2.5 SATA drive? Would there be any performance benefit?
There aren't any sata to pcie nvme converters. Something like the Sabrent EC-M2SA is probably what you have it mind, but it will only work with B+M Key drives (older, the difference is 500mbps vs 5000mbps). So no, you wouldn't be able to get an adapter to use this with a sata slot. You can use a 2280 m.2 sata B+M key in this fashion, though (something like the 2tb WD Blue SA510 SATA).
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Link showing $187 now... deal appears to be dead/over or OOS
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Quote from mischlep :
800 TBW might be low, but let's see how much data that really is...

800 TBW/4TB drive = 200 Drive Writes
5 year warranty = 1826 days
200 drive writes / 1826 days = 0.1095 drive writes per day, or 438 GB of data assuming a write amplification of 1.0.

So if you're writing 438 GB of data to the drive every day, you're probably going to want shell out more money for a faster drive that has better flash and a faster sequential write speed (crucial says 3000 MB/s) than this particular drive.

I think people on SD are putting a bit too much emphasis on TBW when they should be more focused on price, warranty, and speed.
While I agree that the vast majority of users will never write 800TB in 5 years, that wasn't really the point I was making. In general, a drive with a higher TBW rating will last longer. Any drive I buy I intend to use beyond the manufacture's warranty period, whether that be in a secondary PC or a build I throw together for friends/family from my old parts. I'd much rather buy a drive that's more than likely to last longer so that myself or others get more use out of it and it stays out of the landfill longer. The drives may be pretty outdated by then, but they'll still be more than capable as secondary or game storage.
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