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Crucial P3 4TB M.2 PCIe Gen3 NVMe Internal SSD - Up to 3500MB/s - CT4000P3SSD8 £159.29 @ Amazon
Crucial P3 4TB M.2 PCIe Gen3 NVMe Internal SSD - Up to 3500MB/s - CT4000P3SSD8 £159.29 @ Amazon
Crucial P3 4TB M.2 PCIe Gen3 NVMe Internal SSD - Up to 3500MB/s - CT4000P3SSD8 £159.29 @ Amazon
Crucial P3 4TB M.2 PCIe Gen3 NVMe Internal SSD - Up to 3500MB/s - CT4000P3SSD8 £159.29 @ Amazon
Crucial P3 4TB M.2 PCIe Gen3 NVMe Internal SSD - Up to 3500MB/s - CT4000P3SSD8 £159.29 @ Amazon
Crucial P3 4TB M.2 PCIe Gen3 NVMe Internal SSD - Up to 3500MB/s - CT4000P3SSD8 £159.29 @ Amazon
Crucial P3 4TB M.2 PCIe Gen3 NVMe Internal SSD - Up to 3500MB/s - CT4000P3SSD8 £159.29 @ Amazon
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Crucial P3 4TB M.2 PCIe Gen3 NVMe Internal SSD - Up to 3500MB/s - CT4000P3SSD8 £159.29 @ Amazon

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4TB Gen3 NVMe
QLC NAND with no DRAM
Not suitable for PS5 Internal storage
Dispatched and sold by Amazon

With all that out of the way... It's a very good price for a 4TB nvme drive, if performance isn't your main concern!

Has been sitting around £175 for the past few weeks after the last big price drop.

Amazon Blurb:
NVMe (PCIe Gen3 x4) technology with up to 3500MB/s sequential reads, random read/write 650K/700K IOPS
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  1. BrokehDM's avatar
    Tom's HARDWARE
    The P3, like the P3 Plus, is capable of using all of its native QLC in a single-bit pSLC mode. This allows for a cache up to about 550GB. Once it runs out of cache the P3 is forced to free up space by copying data from pSLC to QLC which slows it down greatly; the write speed plummets from 3.2 GBps to 100 MBps. The cache’s size will vary relative to the amount of free space on the drive, with a minimum amount always available to at least cache random writes.
    England2000's avatar
    and from what I can tell by using the Crucial software, over-provisioning isn't an option. I do notice massive speed drops when copying larger files and I have 1.5tb of the 4tb free. When unpacking large files (mostly 8-15gb) with WinRar, the speeds are all over the place, sometimes even coming to a complete stop (WinRar is setup to operate 100% on this drive)

    I would have preferred a normal 2.5 SSD, but I've got a 2022 Helios Laptop and it only allows for two m.2 drives. It's not great, but it's the best reasonably priced large capacity 2nd drive I think
  2. italondonistaavataurino's avatar
    Can some up-to-date guy enlighten about all the most recent acronyms and stuff that matters related to ssd NVMe storage etc?I'm waiting (if God allows) for my Lenovo Legion Slim 7i gen8 to be shipped tomorrow and to receive it around half of June and obviously planning to upgrade both ram and storage. What's best value nowadays for general use + standard occasional gaming?any online guides/ tutorials about those ssd features and what's appropriate for different use scenarios? Personally thinking to add 2TB but not excluding 4tb once understood best value propositions on the market. I configured my Legion with the minimum 512gb SSD M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4 TLC in order to save on upgrades doable on my own.
    PCie's avatar
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    Not an expert, but from what I've gathered just by keeping my eye on many of these deals and threads:

    PCIe 3.0, 4.0 and 5.0 are different specs for nvme, with 5.0 (gen5) giving fastest theoretical speeds. Gen5 is pretty cutting edge now so most computers/laptops don't support it yet and it's very expensive. All drives are backwards compatible, so a gen4 drive will work at Gen3 speeds in a gen3 machine. And not all drives get close to their top theoretical speeds - the cheaper Gen4 drives can be slower than a good Gen3.

    NAND is to do with the flash storage and how densely it is packed. In general, fewer bits per memory cell = better (harder wearing, faster, longer lasting). Most stuff at the moment tends to be TLC (Triple level cell) or QLC (quad level cell), with TLC generally being better but more expensive.

    DRAM is a cache which allows the drive to keep it's top speeds up for longer when transferring larger amounts of data. It's better to be with it than without it.
    Some NVMe drives have something called HMB (Host Memory Buffer) which uses the system (PC/Laptop) RAM in lieu of DRAM, but I'm not sure how good this is or if it's more of a marketing ploy...


    For general use, QLC and no DRAM (like this drive) is fine. You might have to wait a bit longer for initial transfer of large volumes of data, but once it's on there (like a game, or photos/videos) it's great. It is not really suitable for read/write intensive tasks like video editing (go for a Gen4 with DRAM).

    I'm sure others will have their own thoughts and perhaps better experience to give specific advice.
  3. Cybergibbons_'s avatar
    If you are planning on virtual machine or video editing, these are not the drives for you. The drop to 100Mb/s is all too real. I took a punt thinking it would be OK, and it wasn't.

    Great for storage that doesn't change much though.
    antony.leather's avatar
    M assuming this only happens if the drive is nearly full or if you’re dealing with more than 550GB and saturating the cache?
  4. mchcreations's avatar
    I know the price is too attractive but only buy this as a storage drive, no active drive. Cache is simply too small and speed drops ridiculously to lower than a old HDD. 500gb (cache) might seem a lot but to today standards is nothing and it’s painful to see under 100mb/s speeds.

    For Active drives (constant use) get a better 2TB drive or you’ll regret it (personal experience). (edited)
    aliasrezistance's avatar
    I second that. It took forever and a day to move my games to this drive. Once on games run fine, just need to get them on is a pain.
  5. crack_shot's avatar
    3500 is slow for NVME

    same thing, faster- £50 more - 4 TB of fast NVME is worth £200 to PCs and £1000 for Macs

    amazon.co.uk/dp/…h=1 (edited)
    The.Fat.Cat's avatar
    The higher sequential speeds are only useful for transferring large amounts of data, especially on a regular basis.
    For the average user/gamer there's no point in spending more on the gen4 drive (except PS5 owners, or course).

    Even then, if you were writing large amounts of data frequenty you'd want to skip these QLC drives. (edited)
  6. Dan_the_man28's avatar
    Damn paid £161.92 the other day when ebay had a 10% off code. Should've waited a bit longer. Bugger
    England2000's avatar
    I had a minor heart attack as I paid 195 a couple of weeks back. Was planning a return, but noticed this isn't the p3 plus and, according to another user here, has quite a bad estimated total read/write lifespan
  7. montblanc's avatar
    I just got this amazon.co.uk/dp/…2Q7 I think this will be good to pair with it to make a portable 4tb drive? With the 500gb nvme that's currently in there, I can only get about 30MB a second, don't know if I'm doing anything wrong.
    SartoriX's avatar
    Are you using the cable that came with it, or another? Is it plugged into a USB 3.2 Gen 2 connector on your Desktop / Laptop?

    I have one of these and getting the same kinds of speeds, however, I don't have a USB C on my desktop PC, my USB 3.2's are type A, so I have ordered a USB 3.2 type C to type A cable, which will hopefully fix it.
  8. aahmed9510's avatar
    I was mainly looking to get a 2tb nvme preferably gen 4 since it's one up on gen 3, the best I saw was WD Black Sn770, but based on some reviews it looks like they don't recommend it since it's dramless.

    Just checking this 4tb to see if there is one which is gen 4 for the same price.
    PCie's avatar
    Author
    Crucial do a "P3 Plus" version which is gen4. Price is around £193 on amazon at the moment for the 4TB version.

    The P3 Plus is still a "low end" drive (QLC NAND, no DRAM and doesn't perform at the higher end of gen4 speeds). However many people won't notice a difference - it really depends on your personal usage case.
  9. Berniboy's avatar
    I'm thinking of getting an nvme to be my D drive and use it to store all my photos and videos. Would this nvme drive need a heatsink?
    The.Fat.Cat's avatar
    It might not need one if your case airflow is decent, but you can get them for £6+ so may as well just in case (pun not intended).
  10. brfc's avatar
    I'm curious if I can do this
    Buy this, by the enclosure in the first post, and connect it to my community fibre router to allow me to access my files anywhere as the HD would be connected to my router... would this work ?
    The.Fat.Cat's avatar
    If the router suppors it, then yes.
    Some do, some don't. (edited)
  11. emptypocketz's avatar
    Need an 8TB Nvme drive for £299
    fishmaster's avatar
    4TB needs to hit £150 or lower consistently for that to happen. It will happen of course and possibly before the end of the year if things stay the same.
  12. DealerDo's avatar
    These drives need more credit then they deserve. A 4TB ssd for under £160 is awesome in its own. in my experience, once past 1tb, there usually so much free space that you will get hundreds of GB's worth of SLC cache so it makes these drives really fast, especially for normal use. (edited)
    DealHugger's avatar
    Why buy a big drive then if expect to have a lot of free space?

    Not arguing, just need a reason to stop buying more.
  13. aahmed9510's avatar
    Is this decent for gaming or is there anything else better priced around?
    McFlufftang's avatar
    This is great value and will meet all of your gaming needs.
  14. teddybeers's avatar
    Maybe in a few years and I'll replace an 18TB HDD for a few of those... maybe
  15. g00ner82's avatar
    Not gen 4 ? PCI 3.0
  16. italkapple's avatar
    Can someone recommend an external + internal drive for PS5. I’ve just ran out of space and can’t be bothered to keep deleting, installing etc. it feels I’m spending more time managing this and then actually playing and I rarely turn the PS( on as it is!
    I’ve currently got
    SN850 1TB internal.
    1TB T7 external
    USERTEMP's avatar
    I have a Crucial P3 Plus 4TB internal. Does not quite meet speed requirements but it's good value gen 4 and works great. Cheap because it's qlc and no DRAM but if it's just to hold games and mainly read not write then no issues. If any games ever appear that don't like the speed I can move them to the native drive.
  17. Ed_Freindo's avatar
    Not sure why this has been expired, this is still in stock at the same price with Amazon.
    The.Fat.Cat's avatar
    Yep, OP needs to change the link to the one from Amazon.

    amazon.co.uk/gp/…c=1
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