Review Crucial P3 SSD Review: Solid Secondary SSD

[Admin]

The Crucial P3 SSD is an efficient budget drive with capacity to spare.

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[escksu]

Price looks good. But it's still up against very stiff competition from tlc drives. A large SLC cache is needed for qlc drives.

 

[Co BIY]

Are the parts here binned lower or just derated for the pricepoint ?

Seems strange to have two products with the exact same BOM but different models.

 

[Co BIY]

I may be the only one following the P3 but the 2TB at $158 is looking very good for someone installing on a PCIe 3.0.

The P31 and 970 EVO are still sitting at $200. P3 Plus is at $180.

 

[rumcajs997]

"If you’re looking for performance, you are better served with the 970 EVO Plus..." - yet 970 Evo Plus is slower or similar in most tests for some strange reason? How is it possible that this drive with Dram and on TLC, is slower than P3 Dramless and on QLC?

 

[xnd]

Please, can you provide idle power consumption with ASPM enabled? It's very important. Graphs are missing there. There is only graph without ASPM: https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/69CVuUReZ9ZAiyL2uNSmZN-1200-80.png.webp
Thank you!

 

[Bamda]

I just purchased the Crucial P3 4TB Gen3 NVMe M.2 SSD for $250. This will make for an excellent secondary drive.

 

[Nim_Chimpsky]

"If you’re looking for performance, you are better served with the 970 EVO Plus..." - yet 970 Evo Plus is slower or similar in most tests for some strange reason? How is it possible that this drive with Dram and on TLC, is slower than P3 Dramless and on QLC?

Yeah I know, my question exactly.

If the P3 seems to beat out the 970 EVO plus in nearly all the tests, why would the EVO be better?