Crucial P3 Plus 1TB M.2 PCIe Gen4 NVMe Internal SSD – Up
Crucial P3 Plus 1TB M.2 PCIe Gen4 NVMe Internal SSD – Up to 5000MB/s – CT1000P3PSSD8
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| Capacity² | 500GB, 1TB, 2TB | 500GB, 1TB, 2TB, 4TB | 500GB, 1TB, 2TB, 4TB | 250GB, 500GB, 1TB, 2TB, 4TB | 480GB, 1TB, 2TB |
| Internal/External | Internal | Internal | Internal | Internal | Internal |
| Form Factor | M.2 | M.2 | M.2 | 2.5 inch | 2.5 inch |
| Interface | NVMe PCIe | NVMe PCIe | NVMe PCIe | SATA | SATA |
| Sequential Read Speed¹ | Up to 6600MB/s | Up to 5000MB/s | Up to 3500MB/s | Up to 560MB/s | Up to 540MB/s |
| Sequential Write Speed¹ | Up to 5000MB/s | Up to 4200MB/s | Up to 3000MB/s | Up to 510MB/s | Up to 500MB/s |
| Optimal For | Fast Gen4 NVMe storage for high-performance computing and hardcore gaming | Entry-level designers, editors, creatives, gamers and professionals for everyday use | DIYers, casual gamers, professionals, and entry-level designers | Professionals, upgraders & college students | Universal, value-conscious users |
1. Typical I/O performance numbers as measured using CrystalDiskMark with command queue full and write cache enabled. Fresh out-of-box (FOB) state is assumed. For performance measurement purposes, the SSD may be restored to FOB state using the secure erase command. System variations will affect measured results.
2. Some of the storage capacity is used for formatting and other purposes and is not available for data storage. 1GB equals 1 billion bytes. Not all capacities available at initial launch.
| Weight: | 17 g |
| Dimensions: | 8 x 0.23 x 2.21 cm; 17.01 Grams |
| Brand: | Crucial |
| Model: | CT1000P3PSSD8 |
| Colour: | Black |
| Batteries Included: | No |
| Manufacture: | Crucial |
| Dimensions: | 8 x 0.23 x 2.21 cm; 17.01 Grams |
Ideal for some extra storage if you have a spare m.2 slot. Its fast and showed up in windows straight away. It came with the tiny m.2 screw which is great because I am always loosing them
I recently bought a streamer/DAC that has provision for a SSD of up to 4TB so this was perfect. The problem with streaming music is that it just takes a small hiccup in broadband to make the music glitch or even come to a grinding halt. If I want to listen to an album on Apple Music, I’ll download it; once it’s downloaded, the broadband can go down completely but the files are still playable. The next thing is to digitise all of the CDs…
I bought the 2TB SSD to replace my 256GB SSD. I put the new SSD in an NVME converter (bought separately), downloaded Acronis and cloned the 256GB into the 2TB. Did everything around 30 minutes.
Inserted the cloned 2TB into my PC and restarted the laptop. Everything works like a charm.
The price seems to have gone up since I bought it, so rather bizarrely it is cheaper to buy it with a free copy of Acronis right now, although I have always used Macrium Reflect free which is sadly no longer updated.
Beware that sometimes these items are subject to theft somewhere along the line and mine was opened and removed by somebody, with just the retaining screw left for my 43. Fortunately customer services gave me a free replacement, but I would recommend checking with the delivery driver or taking a video of it being opened just in case.
Very quick SSD, haven’t had any issues with any of Crucial’s products. When transferring files on the SSD I get around 1Gbps speeds which are great! No faults as of yet.
i have lost count of the number of drives i have bought from crucial – and i have literally never had a single problem. they are faultless each and every time. this one comes really well packaged and as an added bonus comes with a tiny nvme screw too! this is something other far more expensive brands do not provide so top marks crucial.
plugged in, recognised in disk tool, initialised, formatted and away i went – what more could you ask for?
This was a bargain when comparing the price to the “Crucial BX500 2tb SSD which has about 540 MB/S”, and this is only 5 more and has 5000MB/s (nearly 10 times faster!) . It’s a no brainer if your PC has a NVME slot.
An absolute steal for the money!! I installed this in my laptop and the difference is major. The read/write speeds are brilliant. The laptop turns on in seconds and it very responsive since upgraded to this from a regular SSD.
I bought a Lenovo Laptop with a very powerful 12th Gen laptop but only 256GB SSD. The model with 512GB was way too expensive. From the difference, I bought this 1TB NVMe SSD (and an 8GB RAM stick) and upgraded the laptop from 256GB to 1TB SSD storage. I cloned the 256GB onto this 1TB so I did not have to re-install Windows the Laptop worked just like before the SSD clonong.
This offers fantastic value for money.
Installed as second drive for games. Easy as plug in, secure with supplied screw and format with windows disk management tool. It’s full capacity and fast. I’ve filled it already. Maybe should’ve go a bigger one lol
I bought this Crucial and a Samsung 970 Evo plus at the same time (both 1Tb). I ran some speed tests on them in order to decide which would be the drive I use for my laptop and which would be my spare. This Crucial drive was fast but a little inconsistent with it’s speeds. Therefore the Samsung won. The crucial overall was fractionally slower than the Samsung in my tests. It was also a lot more inconsistent speed wise than the Samsung. Good value for money though.
There are a few brands – like Samsung and Crucial, that seem to be ahead in the management and value stakes. So I confine my purchases to them.
Ease of installation will depend on what you’re doing. If you’re replacing a drive within a laptop, it can sometimes be fiddly, with a need to disassemble several parts of the machine to get at the drive housing. How clear and how easy that is, will depend on the information the laptop manufacturer makes available, not the drive manufacturer. It’s also worth finding out the maximum drive size (TB) that can be installed. Some CPUs and motherboards have their limits — exceeding this can be possible — but can involve diving into the BIOS and work-arounds. So it’s best to do some research.
These Crucial disks have the same form factor and installation options as other disks of their standard – by Crucial and other manufacturers – I’ve yet to see a difference between brands. Installing in an external housing is usually very straightforward.
For gaming, speed can be critical. I’ve not used this for gaming, it’s on a disk array on a powered external USB hub and the USB speed is the limiting factor. The manufacturer provides full details of the maximum read and write speeds that can be obtained.
I’ve found the value for money per GB of storage that Crucial offers is excellent.
The SSD arrived on time and was well packaged. Over the last few months I have bought several Crucial SSD from P3 to P5’s both SATA and NVMe. These drives are so easy to setup and this one was no different. It took only a few minutes from getting it out of the box to a working drive in my PC. This is also a nippy SSD. I am happy with my purchase would would recommend it especially at the price it is.
Wow.JUST WOW!This thing is blazing quick.i did not expect these read and write speeds from a 40 SSD from such a known company.When i recieved it my initial thoughts were on how fast windows downloaded and how quick it could boot up.Even with my pentium 6th Gen it still loaded up into the full windows menu in under 10 seconds.I were amazed as the old Toshiba NVME Gen3 SSD took about 2 minutes.It has relieved so much stress on my processor leaving it about 1% utilization most of the time i can even play GTA now at 60FPS which is unreal! The crucial executive storage manager provides many options to improve the SSD which is a big plus.If your looking for an SSD go no further with this SSD going up to 4TB and 5000,4800Mb/s Read and write speeds i personally think it is a steal
Although I have his in an external name gen3 thunderbolt drive the speeds are great 2500MB/s write and 2260MB/s read. So. an excellent result and no issues so far. Formatted APFS for iMac .
After doing a lot of research I opted to buy 2 x 1tbit drives.
They are supoer fast and super easy to install.
Fast to write too and read from. My new system is much better then my old 10+ year old system.
For the price of this card you can’t go wrong. A real bargain.
Must give this card or both cards I got 10-10 for sure. Well deserved.
My ASUS Z390-A motherboard has two M.2 slots so I was able to add this 1TB NVMe SSD card then clone my 250GB C: boot disk to it using the Crucial data transfer software. I then swapped the M.2 cards over so the PC booted off the new 1TB card (couldn’t see how to change boot sequence in BIOS which would achieve the same thing). I was a bit apprehensive but it all worked well and I’m getting 3500 MB/s sequential read speeds. I download Crucial Storage Executive too which will be useful. I had an issue screwing down the loose end of the SDD to secure it as there was no support post in my PC, i found a workaround so not an insurmountable issue
I purchased this Crucial M.2 SSD to use in my custom gaming PC build. Installation was super easy, just slotted it into the motherboard. Boot times are lightning fast now and games load notably quicker than with my old SATA SSD. Read and write speeds are very impressive, around 3500MB/s when I benchmarked it. For the price this SSD has great performance – very speedy for gaming and multitasking. Overall an excellent NVMe drive that boosted speeds in my gaming rig. Highly recommended
Good Value for a 2TB M.2 and it also has good speeds.
My Rig as of writing this review
Monitor:
Philips Gaming 279M1RV (3840 x 2160 / 27 Inch / 144Hz) +
ASUS ROG PG27V (2560×1440 / 27 Inch / 165hz)
Operating system:
Microsoft Windows 11 Pro (22H2)
Motherboard:
MSI MPG Z790 CARBON WIFI ATX
Processor:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900K CPU @ 5.8GHz (8+16 Cores, 32 Threads)
RAM:
Corsair Vengeance RGB 64GB DDR5 7200MHz CL32
Graphics card:
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti (8 GB)
SSD:
Crucial P3 Plus M.2 2TB
SSD:
Samsung SSD 990 EVO M.2 2TB
SSD:
Samsung SSD 970 EVO M.2 500GB
SSD:
Samsung SSD 850 EVO 2.5″ 250GB
Case:
NZXT H440 Red/Black New Edition
Internet:
1 Gigabit Download and 0.41 Gigabit Upload FTTP Fiber
VR Headset:
HTC Vive
I have a custom gaming PC and needed some extra space. This 4TB M.2 drive is super fast. It’s also future-proofed. My motherboard only supports M.2 PCIe 3.0 and this drive is PCIe 4.0. It still works in a 3.0 slot, and will be able to run at full speed when I get a new motherboard! Note that it’s often on sale. I bought it for around 150 on Prime Day.
My new PC build warranted some SSD drive storage space, after all, if I’m building a better PC its only going to be better if I upgrade the drives.
Along with the new motherboard, processor & RAM my newly built PC makes my 5 year old system look like a snail, when transferring data to/from this drive over my LAN the bottleneck is now the speed of my NICs, not the speed of the old mechanical drives.
Value for money, yes it was, I’m sure the price will drop shortly as with most PC components.
Long story short – if you need a new SSD and your motherboard is compatible, then go for it!
Been using Crucial memory and ssd storage for more than twenty tears without a single failure. This 2TB M2 stick was installed with ease as an upgrade to my laptop which had a full 1Tb disk. Used Acronis’s True Image software provided free by Crucial to clone the disk which it did easily & effectively and the laptop was back in use instantly on switching on with the new disk. Once again great disk from trusted brand.
I love this brand, always reliable.
Quick unscrew of a few screws on my laptop, locate the secondary nvme m.2 slot
Click in the unit, noting the notch on the drive. Re screw everything and power on the laptop.
Go to your disk management,select mbr or gpt ,initialise the drive, format it, allocate a drive letter and you Re good to go. caution if you have more than 1 drive make sure you are selecting the correct drive
900gb of drive space approx appears! Yay happy saying stuff you don’t need
I ran multiple benchmark tests on the Crucial P3 Plus 1TB and the drive is fast. Getting over 5100 MB/s Read and 3600 MB/s Write.
However, this NVMe needs a Cooler and the Thermalright M.2 2280 Pro is a good match for the Crucial P3 Plus 1TB Gen4 NVMe, as it managed to cool it from 64 Degree Celsius, all the way down to 33 Degree Celsius.
The Crucial P3 Plus 1TB is not as fast as my WDBlack SN850X, but it is half the price, and quick enough to not notice any difference in day to day tasks.
Decent Performance for the price. Random Read & Write IOPS values are average.
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CrystalDiskMark 8.0.4 x64 (C) 2007-2021 hiyohiyo
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes
[Read]
SEQ 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 5180.188 MB/s [ 4940.2 IOPS] < 1614.42 us>
SEQ 1MiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 3127.982 MB/s [ 2983.1 IOPS] < 335.02 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 32, T= 1): 699.048 MB/s [ 170666.0 IOPS] < 181.39 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 64.191 MB/s [ 15671.6 IOPS] < 63.69 us>
[Write]
SEQ 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 3612.888 MB/s [ 3445.5 IOPS] < 2317.58 us>
SEQ 1MiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 3607.560 MB/s [ 3440.4 IOPS] < 290.20 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 32, T= 1): 534.512 MB/s [ 130496.1 IOPS] < 237.82 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 280.427 MB/s [ 68463.6 IOPS] < 14.48 us>
Profile: Default
Test: 1 GiB (x5) [C: 27% (48/180GiB)]
Mode: [Admin]
Time: Measure 5 sec / Interval 5 sec
Date: 2023/06/03 0:37:34
OS: Windows 11 Professional [10.0 Build 22621] (x64)