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Posted 29 April 2023
1TB - Crucial P3 Plus PCIe Gen 4 x4 NVMe SSD - 5000MB/s (PS5 Compatible) - £43.79 / 4TB - £192.99 / 2TB - £94.02 / 500GB - £32.28 @ Amazon
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Update 1
Price dropped to £43.79 for the 1TB model and to £32.28 for the 500GB model - As of 07/05
2TB Price drop from £96.99 to £95.02 20/05 to £94.02 23/05
2TB Price drop from £96.99 to £95.02 20/05 to £94.02 23/05
4TB Crucial P3 £175.99 / 2TB - £87.99 here: hotukdeals.com/deals/crucial-p3-4tb-m2-pcie-gen3-nvme-internal-ssd-up-to-3500mbs-ct4000p3ssd8-ps17599-2tb-ps8799-at-amazon-4128064
- NVMe (PCIe Gen4 x4) technology with up to 5000MB/s sequential reads, random read/write 650K/800K IOPS
- Spacious storage up to 4TB
- Performs up to 43% faster than the fastest Gen3 NVMe SSDs
- Rated at MTTF greater than 1.5 million hours for extended longevity and reliability
- Backward compatibility with Gen3
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sorted byI posted this deal previously but crooked mods deleted "Hi Ulti, I really do apologise about that deal being removed, unfortunately we do ask for the marketplace seller to be existing for 1+year to ensure they're reputable, this amazon marketplace seller is only a few months old.". Hopefully your deal doesn't get deleted but I wouldn't be surprised if it did.
I was going to get back and update my deal as I bought it and had some feedback to post but sadly deleted as mentioned. I also have a 980 Pro 1TB and Crucial P3 Plus 1TB to compare with.
The Crucial P3 Plus 1TB appeared to be faster in Samsung Magician, showing up to 7400MB/s reads and 3700MB/s writes and ATTO benchmarked at 6.9GB/s reads and 5.9GB/s writes while CDM showed close to 5200MB/s reads and 3600MB/s writes. However this drive ran pretty hot and got close to 70C on sustained writes. The SLC cache was also quite small - after writing somewhere around 280GB of data, the speeds slowed to a crawl at around 70MB/s TLC writes.
This fanxiang S660 2TB benched rather oddly - 6000MB/s reads and 4500MB/s writes in Samsung Magician but only 4.5GB/s reads and 4.2GB/s writes in ATTO while CDM showed around 4850MB/s and 4400MB/s writes. It ran super cool on sustained writes at 47C and the SLC cache was surprisingly large and handled well - it has around 1TB of SLC cache in which case once filled, the TLC still writes at 600MB/s. Note that this may not be accurate because of the fact that the TLC is still pretty fast so while writing to the SLC cache, a lot of that would have been written to the TLC. A bit too lazy to try and calculate it.
The Samsung 980 Pro 1TB benches the highest unsurprisingly with 7000MB/s reads and 5200MB/s writes in Samsung Magician, 6.3GB/s and 4.2GB/s read/writes in ATTO and 6900MB/s and 5000MB/s read/writes in CDM. I didn't test the cache and TLC speeds myself but TPU quotes 113GB of SLC cache with TLC speeds of 1.5GB/s. The drive however runs the hottest in my PC at over 70C when doing sustained stuff.
Note that these are all just sustained speeds, randoms are also very important which is where the Samsung 980 Pro dominated with close to 1 million IOPS for random reads/writes while both the fanxiang and Crucial P3 Plus were similar to each other with a much lower 350K/280k IOPS random read/write.
I got the Crucial P3 Plus 1TB with the £5 off £15 spend for £39 from Amazon, the fanxiang S660 2TB with the 10% off voucher for £76.50 from Amazon and the Samsung 980 Pro 1TB with cashback and work discount for £78 from the Samsung EPP store. Needless to say the fanxiang S660 is clearly the winner in my eyes.
But yeah tl;dr - this one is probably the best budget 2TB drive with decent max sustaineds and an excellent SLC cache implementation with fast TLC speeds while running super cool.
The seller is Amazon not some random bod with 10 feedback with 90% positive.
USB 3.2 Gen 1 will get you 500MB/s and Gen 2 1000 MB/s speeds.
However, if you use it for backups the speed will tank to 100MB/s after say 500Gb of writing. Incremental backups will go faster as they won't fill up the cache. So, it depends what you are backing up as to how fast it will go.
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Also 2TB for £122. 99
Also for those with DRAM, do they encounter the same issue too but just with a bigger frame buffer as the DRAM cache is 2GB? (edited)
Dram can help as it is much faster but if the drive is QLC it will still slow down when full as the inherent speed of QLC is slow.
A TLC drive has a faster inherent speed and so maintain a faster speed under large copies, but these are more expensive. But if you need that sort of thing then 980 Pro, SN850 are the ones I would recommend. 980 Pros 2Gb have been going quite cheap of late.
Any knowledgeable opinions?
P3 if you want to save money and just need a big store that you will not be doing big data writes to that often. Read speed is good but the big downside is the write speed drops off a cliff (<100MB/s) on the P3 when the cache is full (~ 25% of the free space of the drive)
The SN850X is the performance choice and will maintain a decent speed (> 1500MB/s) even when cache is full.
If it were me (and BTW I have already bought a P3 Plus 4Tb) and was buying today I would pay the extra £60 and know that it would not disappoint me. Though I am not seeing the SN850X 4Tb for £250 (more like £330).
[EDIT] Ah spotted the CEX one, which will be a 2nd hand drive I expect. (edited)
was really weak and went for two......
£175.99 4TB Crucial P3 Plus is PCIe Gen 3.0 which is why it is limited to 3500MB/s
This £192.99 is PCI Gen 4.0 and is middle road performance on PCIe 4.0, so 5000MB/s, good enough for most people. Crucial also do even faster with P5 Plus but if you need faster get a better brand.
Floodgates are open. It is over the Chinese brands now to beat these prices. So NETAC and Fanxiang. (edited)
1TB - Crucial P3 Plus PCIe Gen 4 x4 NVMe SSD - 5000MB/s (PS5 Compatible) - £43.99 / 4TB - £192.99 / 2TB - £96.99 / 500GB - £32.99 @
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The 2GB P3 Plus is way overpriced for what it is, it should be around the same price of the NV2.
General OS/app/game performance will be pretty much identical for all 3 drives (the higher sequential speeds of this crucial will only really help when transferring very large files).
If you do want to go gen4, this Integral is better than all of the above, TLC NAND again but still DRAM-less -
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To improve performance a little more you could go for a drive with DRAM cache, but that comes at an extra cost (though the way prices are at the moment, it may not be too much more). (edited)