Crucial - P3 2TB Internal SSD PCIe Gen 3 x4 NVMe
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Basic bootup speeds won't cut it - not at work, on the go, or in the game. But the Crucial P3 SSD is anything but basic. With NVMe performance that's more than 6x faster than SATA2 and storage capacities up to 4TB3, the P3 leaves older storage technology in the dust. Get faster bootups, downloads and file transfers, and store all your files, photos, videos, apps, and games with room to spare with the quality and dependability you expect from Crucial.
Dimension
Product Height : 0.86 inches
Product Width :3.14 inches
Product Depth :
Product Weight :0.59 ounces
Features
Speed Impressive read/write speeds up to 3500/3000MB/s
Storage Spacious storage up to 4TB
Performance Performs up to 33% better than the previous generation
Trusted Technology Micron Advanced 3D NAND
Flexibility Solid Gen3 performance
Solid Security SSD management software for performance optimization and firmware updates give the Crucial P3 everything you need for security and peace of mind.
What's Included
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The coolest running nVMe on the market.
OK so we all know there may be faster SSDs on the market but currently there's no cooler running SSD on the market then the P3 family. Go ahead and look up independent tests and they'll tell you that at idle these things barely register above room temperature and they do thermally throttle correctly, that is to say they don't go into near explosion overheated then throttle they throttle a reasonable temperature and still give good consistent performance. Now why would you care about this on a modern system? Tablets and laptops is the answer. Most tablets and laptops do not have heat sinks or very good Silicone material to wick heat away from their SSDs. Because of this you're going to be prone to SSD overheat and failure in smaller embedded devices that don't have supplied heat sinks. The fastest performing SSD devices on the market require large active cooling solutions. This one does not. And I will personally say that from the speeds I've witnessed I don't know why any regular Person would need any faster speed for the current Windows 11 or MacOS platforms. Unless you're doing a large amount of video encoding or special gaming this SSD is going to be very fast and you will be pleased with its overall performance and reliability. The heat is the answer. These things have an incredibly low idle power consumption and as stated above they have some of the best thermal throttling on the market currently. Yes you sacrifice a little speed but I'd happily sacrifice a little speed for reliability. Also the crucial management software, well not the best, works just fine with this in a tablet and properly upgraded its firmware and was able to manage it even as the primary boot device. If you don't have an active cooling solution ready this is the chip you want. If you do have an active cooling solution go ahead and buy a faster chip and enjoy it.
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Great SSD
Bought for new pc and works without issue, good price for amount of storage
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NVME PCIE3.0 SSD 2TB of space and great speed
The crucial P3 NVME SSD is a PCIE 3.0 compatible device I have the 2 TB version. This drive is capable of 3500 mb/s read and 3000mb/s write according to crucial. The drive comes well packaged in a crucial branded box with a plastic carrier for the drive and brief instructions with links to download Acronis true image cloning software and Crucial drive executive software which allows firmware updates, over provisioning and microns own cache to speed up drive access. I used this drive in my Dell G15 running Windows 11 to replace the OEM 500gb drive. Although this laptop has 2 SSD slots I used an SSD enclosure with USB C cable to clone the drive so I could duplicate the process that people would have with only 1 slot. You should go into Windows drive manager or the equivalent on a Mac and initialize the drive first so it will be recognized. I did not use the Acronis true image as I read some people had issues with it, instead I used a free third party utility to clone the drive. I also expanded the C drive partition with another utility because my drive had multiple partitions. I shut down the computer, removed the old SSD as I wanted to use it in my new USB enclosure as an external drive and installed the crucial P3 in its place. Some computers like mine have a 2230 size drive and this is a 2280 and involve moving a bracket or if you have a second SSD slot purchasing a bracket as a lot of laptops don't include these so check before if this is your plan or you will be waiting for your new bracket to arrive in the mail! On reboot the computer booted up correctly I installed the Crucial drive executive software to check if a firmware update was necessary but it was up to date. I did not over provision the drive or install the extra cache as Windows 11 is optimized to use this type of drive and these 3rd party cache applications tend to be less stable and cause problems. Drive performance was great. I have attached the images of the windows benchmarks. This was a great upgrade giving me a lot more space and improving the drive speed great for gaming and video editing as well as general computer use. This drive gives an impressive amount of space with excellent real use speed it is not the fastest but is fast enough to please most users.
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Seamless install
Was gonna buy it, but then it went on sale, so I had to jump on it. Quick load speeds so good for games. Would recommend
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Great deal if not the fastest out there.
Very fast and at a great price. I bought four of them and made a 1+0 RAID (which makes 8TB of total space come out to 4TB of double redundant storage) out of them with a Thunderbolt 3 enclosure. Storage is lightning fast with these drives. Write speed was 945 Gbps, and read speeds were 2,300 Gbps. Not the fastest for sure, but for the price it's perfect for my needs.
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Great option for budget PCIe SSD
Excellent budget SSD with good price to performance ratio. Has so far been very reliable with no issues and solid speeds, much better than standard SATA SSDs. My M.2 slot does not support its full speed, however it is maximizing what is available to it.
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Needed more space & performance.
Bought this needing more storage for games on my laptop, specifically games that run better from an ssd. It was easy to install, transferred a couple games to it & they ran great after moving from a hdd.
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Good balance of capacity and reliable performance
I have used Crucial memory (RAM) in the past on several computers and have never had an issue. The Crucial website has also always been helpful in verifying that I am getting the right type of memory or drive (form factor/specs) that will be compatible with my computer. The Crucial P3 2TB has good performance, runs cool with an inexpensive heatsink (see my install note below) and is a good value for the capacity it offers. I have a good size collection of games. My original hard drive on my ASUS ROG M16 GUGU603HE filled up quickly and I added a 1TB drive in the second M2 slot. Recently my daughter has taken an interest in gaming and 1TB started to seem pretty small. This Crucial P3 2TB drive should give us both room to grow without having to uninstall and reinstall games just to play them again. It is an inexpensive investment given how much I have invested in my game library (both time and money). (((Installation))) This was an easy DIY project with a inexpensive electronics tool kit I purchased online. It is a nice touch that Crucial includes the hold down screw in case your computer does not have one or it gets lost. To keep the drive cool I purchased a kit made for M2 drives that includes a flat copper heat sink and gel silica (thermal) pads with a few different thicknesses. The top of the drive is not perfectly flat (there is a high spot in the middle) so I did remove a small amount of the silica pad so that the ridged copper heat sink would sit level. Since I am using this for game storage, I formatted the drive as one volume using Windows Disk management. (((Performance))) Crucial does offer software to help monitor and manage their drive, but already had CrystalDisk(Info & Mark) installed so I used it to run a few test and check temperatures. Performance is right on what is stated in the Crucial specs (max read for me was 3478MB/s and write was 3029MB/s). It is a little slower than my old 1TB drive based on the test results (about 3%), but I did not notice any difference in real world use and it is twice the size. I was really impressed with how cool it runs, which was a struggle for my old drive (with the same heat sink). At idle it stays in the mid to high 30s (C). After running 2 CrystalDiskMark 1GB tests and moving 380GB data (read and write) the drive temperature peaked out around 52C.
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Fast downloads
Bought this for a storage upgrade on my laptop, it did not disappoint with fast speeds and easy installation