Product Features:
Powerful Performance
Upgrade your PC with the fast Gen4 performance it needs at a price you want. The Crucial P3 Plus NVMe SSD delivers load times and data transfers that are 8.9x faster than SATA and 43% faster than the fastest Gen3 SSDs.
Spacious Storage
With generous space of up to 4TB, the Crucial P3 Plus offers powerful Gen4 storage for loads of apps, programs, files, docs, photos, videos, and games — with room to spare.
Trusted Technology
Crucial P3 Plus Gen4 NVMe SSDs are built with high-quality Micron® Advanced 3D NAND, tested and validated to the exacting standards you’ve come to expect from one of the world’s largest manufacturers of flash memory. Want proof? Go check out our award-winning line of SSDs.
Solid Security
Gen4 technology, SSD management software for performance optimization, and firmware updates give the Crucial P3 Plus Gen4 NVMe SSD everything you need for security and peace of mind.
Product Specifications:
General tech specs
SSD series: P3 Plus
Interface: NVMe (PCIe Gen 4 x4)
Capacity: 4TB
Form factor: M.2 (2280)
SSD Endurance (TBW): 800TB
Speed
Sequential Read: 4,800 MB/s
Sequential Write: 4,100 MB/s
Warranty & returns
Warranty: Limited 5-year
during Amazon sales I bought a Crucial P3 (none plus) 4TB NVMe drive
installed in a machine with PCI NVMe slot, have a few other SSD SATA and NVMe Samsung drives also around.
What you experienced here:
is exactly what I saw too; also take a look at the drive activity in task manager when you see this sharp drop in performance.
like you had here
Thi is because Crucial is using: Micron 176 Layer 3D QLC NAND – Quadruple-Level-Cell ;
in order of performance , SSD Cells
SLC > MLC > QLC/QLC
the P3 and P3 Plus have NO dedicated DRAM cache, they will first write data first level SLC, once that is filled , will start going in the QLC and this is where you see the huge performance drop AND a huge increase in response times (3000ms+) and the disk I/O is at 100%. And this during a simple sequential write action.
My 10 year old SATA150 HDD has higher sequential write speeds than this NVMe SSD!
and once that I/O is at 100%, FULL system hang.
This drive should never be used as an OS Disk; and even as a scratch/data disk, seeing the performance drop; cannot really recommend it.
the 2TB Crucial P3 Plus is at €99 at Amazon.de
Samsung 970 Evo 2TB NVMe is at €98 at same shop
and that is a complete no brainer; the Samsung EVO 970 hold consistent NVMe PCI express levels of performance, not seeing ANY drops in performance as stellar as this Crucial one and I/O activity remains lower and latency is at <1ms, instead of 2000-3000ms I see with the Crucial NVMe
this is one drive to avoid imho