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4TB Crucial P3 PCIe Gen3 M.2 Solid State Drive SSD $160 + Free Shipping

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Amazon [amazon.com] has 4TB Crucial P3 PCIe Gen3 M.2 Solid State Drive SSD on sale for $159.99. Shipping is free

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  • NVMe (PCIe Gen3 x4) technology with up to 3500MB/s sequential reads, random read/write 650K/700K IOPS
  • Spacious storage up to 4TB
  • Performs up to 33% better than the previous generation
  • Solid Gen3 performance
  • Rated at MTTF greater than 1.5 million hours for extended longevity and reliability
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Model: Crucial P3 4TB 3D NAND PCIe Gen3 NVMe M.2 Internal SSD, 3500MB/s Read

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11/24/23Newegg$160
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10/31/23Adorama$166.49
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10/19/23Amazon$167.53
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07/11/23Amazon$160 frontpage
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05/22/23Best Buy$189.99
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05/09/23Newegg$199.99
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04/21/23Newegg$199.99 popular
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04/19/23Amazon$200
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04/01/23Amazon$190 frontpage
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02/26/23Amazon$220 frontpage
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02/15/23Best Buy$250
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01/30/23Adorama$210 frontpage
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12/15/22Newegg$244.99
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12/11/22Amazon$250 frontpage
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11/28/22Amazon$259.99
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11/07/22Amazon$323
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11-23-2023 at 01:04 AM.
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11-23-2023 at 03:50 AM.

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11-23-2023 at 03:50 AM.
I use this as a secondary drive installed in the extra PCIe slot of an LG Gram laptop. I was looking for a bulk storage device that was single side form factor, consumes little power and runs cool. It meets that criteria. The downside is the drive was irritatingly slow during the initial file transfer / load process.

When first installed, it was loaded with over 3.5TB of data from an external USB 3.1 hard drive. The lack of DRAM cache soon became obvious. There developed a regular cycle where file transfer was paused when the drive became saturated. Crucial supplies a driver / utility that will improve performance but be prepared for halts if you are writing large amounts of data continuously, especially as the drive nears maximum capacity.

Saying that, it performs well for its intended purpose as a "write once / read many" drive.
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I use this as a secondary drive installed in the extra PCIe slot of an LG Gram laptop. I was looking for a bulk storage device that was single side form factor, consumes little power and runs cool. It meets that criteria. The downside is the drive was irritatingly slow during the initial file transfer / load process.

When first installed, it was loaded with over 3.5TB of data from an external USB 3.1 hard drive. The lack of DRAM cache soon became obvious. There developed a regular cycle where file transfer was paused when the drive became saturated. Crucial supplies a driver / utility that will improve performance but be prepared for halts if you are writing large amounts of data continuously, especially as the drive nears maximum capacity.

Saying that, it performs well for its intended purpose as a "write once / read many" drive.

I second this. It is a good drive if you are aware that once it hits around 1.8TB full it will slow down to around 60-100MBps. If you are looking for consistent seq write speeds are 1.8TB, another drive is more suitable. Else the read performance is fine
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I second this. It is a good drive if you are aware that once it hits around 1.8TB full it will slow down to around 60-100MBps. If you are looking for consistent seq write speeds are 1.8TB, another drive is more suitable. Else the read performance is fine
dude, thank you so much for the heads up! i'll wait for a samsung evo deal.
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11-24-2023 at 02:35 AM.
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dude, thank you so much for the heads up! i'll wait for a samsung evo deal.

Havent seen the EVOs go on sale for some months now, waiting for a 970 gen 3
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11-24-2023 at 05:40 AM.
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Is this good for a primary drive?
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11-24-2023 at 06:03 AM.
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Bought. Thanks! I've been running 250 gigs for two years now. Having to uninstall a game to play another was getting old.
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11-24-2023 at 08:53 AM.
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Gen 4 is $180 ... is that better for a regular laptop , no gaming. Want to get something which will not get obsolete in few years
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11-24-2023 at 09:09 AM.
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Quote from cuck :
Is this good for a primary drive?

Depends who you ask. There are several elitists here that will tell you no, and explain why you need to spend double this on something else that may load your AAA game in 1.6 seconds instead of 1.8 seconds.

But if you're coming off of booting from a regular HDD on an old computer, then yes it is excellent.
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11-24-2023 at 02:39 PM.
11-24-2023 at 02:39 PM.
I bought this drive from Bestbuy in December 2022 when it was on sale, but I didn't have a computer with NVME support until April 2023. I installed this drive into my new laptop, and starting moving video footage files to it planning to edit them during a business trip. I slowed down by a lot after about 400GB or so written into the drive. I was on a tight schedule for travel so I left the file transfer (total 2TB)over night to complete.
My business trip got extended when I was not in the country to 3 months. I came back to the US in late August and wanted to find out why this drive slowed down so far. I tested with CrystalDiskMark (CDM) with all default settings and I got around 3000MB/s read and write sometimes. I realized this drive is probably designed to have good result with the default 1GB file size test. So I tested with 64GB file size and only sequential to save time. I consistantly get around 80MB/s write speed, and 2000MB/s read speed. The bottleneck is around 8GB.
So I backed up everything to other drives, emptied this drive, and run CDM on empty drive, I got adverstised speed. I keep copying files to the drive until it slows down, which happens around 20% capacity used, and run CDM with 64GB test, same 80MB/s write speed.
I contacted Crucial support, and they claim this is how the drive should perform. I can get a replacement. But since it's not an individual issue, getting a replacement means nothing. The email chain has been going back and forth since September. Crucial told me to update firmware, perform optimizing steps, and I did all of them, yet same result.
I have other QLC drives, Included test results on intel 660p and 665p. When they have more ratio of space written, I can still get faster than mechanical drive sequential write speed, around 180MB/s.

If you plan to write more than 8GB of data to this drive at once at some point, do not buy this drive. It's not an unrealistic situation. Let's say you use this drive in your laptop, with OS, some software and documents. It's easily exceeding 20% of the drive capacity. Now you want to copy photos from your camera SD card to this drive, good luck. I hope you never take more than 8GB of photos.
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11-24-2023 at 04:31 PM.
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Is this drive good drive for torrenting 24*7 usage in optiplex micro
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11-24-2023 at 05:00 PM.
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I don't see how this is a deal? It's gen 3… I picked up a gen 4 yesterday 4tb for 135 on Amazon… most 4tb gen 4 are this price right now, or quite a few are.
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