4TB Crucial P3 M.2 PCIe Gen3 NVMe Internal SSD - Up to 3500MB/s - (Acronis Edition)

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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 SATA and 22x faster than HDD2, the P3 leaves older storage technology in the dust. With sequential read/write speeds up to 3500/3000MB/s1, storage capacities up to 4TB3, Micron® Advanced 3D NAND, and innovative controller technology, the Crucial P3 gives you the speed you need for the price you want. 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.

Impressive read/write speeds up to 3500/3000MB/s
Spacious storage up to 4TB3
Solid Gen3 performance
Micron® Advanced 3D NAND
NVMe™ PCIe 3.0 M.2 (2280)
Performs up to 45% better than the previous generation

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29th Apr
4TB M.2 PCIe Gen4 (5000MB/s)

Fikwot FN955 4TB M.2 PCIe Gen4 (7350MB/s) (edited)
29th Apr
Forget the DRAM-less Fikwot, the Silicon Power XS70 is a better drive for less -
amazon.co.uk/Sil…h=1
29th Apr
Nice price for a 4TB in this day and age.
Fine for anything other than long term write intensive tasks.
No real need for anything better if it's just gaming/storage/general use. (edited)
29th Apr
This is not Gen 4, very very misleading description. The Gen 4 is £234 lol, you got my hopes up. Cold. Because im evil like that. (edited)
29th Apr
Title says gen 3 which refers to PCIe 3.0 which is correct.

The description which refers to PCIe 4.0 is actually for a different product P3 Plus. Not sure it’s OP or HUKD mod but the description which is incorrect.
29th Apr
Nice spot ! Will do a quick update on the SSD Megathread. For people comparing the P3 and P3 Plus,the P3 Plus isn't that much faster. In basic read tests there isn't much difference:

In intensive writes,the P3 Plus starts off faster but slows down quicker so over a longer period isn't much different!

The P3 also draws less power.

(edited)
29th Apr
I must admit, I've never been too fond of all those synthetic benchmarks, epsiecially gaming ones.
There are huge performance gaps between some drives but in real world performance it mostly equates to a few miliseconds difference in game loading times, lol.

The P3's efficiency is pretty impressive though, mostly down to it being gen3 and DRAM'ess.

I used to despise Crucials QLC NAND drives (had awful experiences with them in the past) but they seem to have ironed out the issues they had with earlier drives.
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29th Apr
Cheers , that helps
29th Apr
I grabbed the SN770 4TB when it was 130 late last year, and I honestly thought it was slightly too expensive even at that price. This is still way too high for a P3.
29th Apr
Times have changed, NAND prices were forced up by lowering production last year.
You have to compare the the prices to other drives right now, the good old times are over.

Last year I picked up a Solidigm 2TB P44 Pro for £95, it's almost double that now... (edited)
1st May
So much rhyme in the title
29th Apr
Is this PCI3 or PCI4 deal and description don’t match?
29th Apr
Its PCI3
The Crucial P3 = PCI3
The Crucial P3 Plus = PCI4

About this item
NVMe (PCIe Gen3 x4) technology with up to 3500MB/s sequential reads, random read/write 650K/700K IOPS
Performs up to 45% better than the previous generation
Rated at MTTF greater than 1.5 million hours for extended longevity and reliability, Crucial 5-year limited warranty
Spacious storage up to 4TB, solid Gen3 performance
Up to 80% savings on Acronis Cyber Protect Home - Protect your photos, files, applications, operating system and devices.
29th Apr
EDIT: Fixed now by the OP (edited)
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29th Apr
Sorted, thanks for noticing
29th Apr
Decent grab for a second drive if you have a mid range board with two ports, they typically only run gen 3 for the second slot due to PCI bandwidth limitations.
29th Apr
I know hindsight is a wonderful thing but:
The P3 Plus (which is gen4 not gen3 like this drive) was this price on Amazon in Feb.
I recently got the P3 Plus from Currys price matching Ebuyer for around £175.

Cheapest for the P3 plus right now seems to be:
scan scan.co.uk/pro…b-s at £209.99
ebuyer ebay ebay.co.uk/itm…920 at £207.99 with PAYAY20 code.
29th Apr
Endurance of 800TBW if that matters for your use case.

uk.crucial.com/ssd…sd8
29th Apr
Got this drive a while back for slightly less off Amazon. Could not get it to clone and work inside my Dell laptop, supposed to support 4Tb. However i now use it in a USBc NVMe enclosure getting just over 1,100Mb/s read speeds which is good enough for what I needed. Good drive. (edited)
30th Apr
I have a p3 plus 4tb and it does get a bit slow under 1tb free. Not sure if mine is a bit dodgy - keep meaning to do furthet testing and try to figure it out, but it can get super laggy eventually. Something to keep in mind if you actually want to fill it up.
2nd May
No DRAM and the speed advertised are sequential write and not random
30th Apr
Do I need to buy a heatsink for this? My motherboard has a 2nd slot but no heatsink
30th Apr
Got this on the last deal for £130 or so as my Windows boot drive. Works great and don't have to worry about space limits on my old 512GB drive any more! Is it the absolute fastest - definitely not but it works well and gives tons of space.
30th Apr
does anyone knows if this Acronis software that comes with this hdd works with W11 ? (without having to mess about with any security settings) (edited)
30th Apr
Seems like a bargain, Apple 4Tb SSD kit is £1600 Lolz
30th Apr
Just fitted this drive to my Linux PC last weekend (£160 eBay deal that was on HUKD a few weeks back) and it's working fine as a Steam game drive formatted as ext4. Doesn't look like Crucial have ever released a firmware update for it (don't whether that's a good or bad thing!). I've already moved 600GB of games onto it from other NVMe drives on my system and it seemed to do that at a decent speed.

Sadly, it looks like SSD prices have bottomed out and are beginning to rise again, so that's why I bit the bullet recently. Note that I wouldn't use this drive to boot the OS or run applications from - I have a 1TB WD SN850X for that, which I also moved the Proton and Steam Runtime packages onto to improve game startup time. (edited)
30th Apr
Why not run an OS on it?