Crucial P3 Plus 1TB PCIe 4.0 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD, up to 5000MB/s – CT1000P3PSSD8

My laptop used to take more than 5 minutes to boot and windows 11 was unresponsive. It was impossible to use Google Chrome as it would take a lot of time to load. After installing Windows in this SSD, my laptop now boots within 10 seconds!!!! Google Chrome takes few seconds to start, everything feels smooth and snappy.
To check whether you have genuine product: Download “Crucial Storage Executive” application and match the model number & serial number on the package to that in the application. Mine was genuine.
I’ve uploaded the read write speed of my old HDD and this new SSD, you can clearly see the huge margin.
Out of 500 GB, Available storage to use is 465 GB.

Me dan velocidades mas bajas y eso que si excedo con las especificaciones necesarias, supongo que instalando la aplicación que recomienda Crucial según vi en un comentario que mejora las velocidades. Aún así estoy satisfecho porque se siente muy ágil mi pc y solo lo tengo para el sistema operativo y los programas. Instalaré el famoso programita de Crucial y daré retroalimentación.

Performance is as advertised. Very good entry level Gen 4 nVME option by Crucial. Great VFM for or under twelve grands.

Update as of February 2 – It turns out the drive is not faulty. I tried a 990 pro 4tb in the same nvme slot of my pc and it did the same thing. Thinking its not the drive, i pit this crucial into an enclosure and amazingly, the affected files from the same 1. Something write all copied over to this drive successfully. It turns out the problem with my Asus pn53 is that it seems to have a limit on the drive size. So for now, i have a 4tb in my main slot, the old 2tb 3.0 in the affected second slot, and my 4tb sata in the 2.5 slot. I’m keeping this drive. Due to the update, I upgraded the review to 5 stars.

Old review:

This is the second P3 4TB drive I bought. first one is in my laptop and is fine. When I bought this, I installed it in my second nvme slot of my desktop to replace the 2TB drive in there. As I started copying the data from my 2TB in an Asus enclosure to this drive, it stopped at some point and sat at 0kbps for hours. I hard rebooted and when I retried, it got to a file and said 0x800701B1: a device which does not exist was specified.

I thought maybe it was the WD Blue nvme 2TB not working while in an enclosure. I reformatted the P3 4TB and tried the same data transfer, but from my NAS through my local network. It didnt finish and my PC Blue screened. I tried again and same error with files.

I then retried the files from the same NAS to my main drive, and it copied with no issue. This rules out my 2TB drive and the enclosure as being the issue. I doubt the second slot NVME would be the problem as my 2TB worked fine in that slot.

This leaves me to believe the Crucial 4TB drive I got is defective even if crystal disk reads it as healthy. I doubt its my OS or the desktop as this would have happened with the main drive too.

Please dont avoid this completely just because of the experience i had with this drive. Again, my first one didnt have this issue. When getting this, make sure you dont use your only copy of data and make a backup before trying. If it copies 1TB+ of data successfully, you should be fine.

Its normal for a drive like this to slow down from 900mbps to 20-100mbps because of its lack of DRAM. What is not normal is for it to stay stuck at 0mbps for hours and get an error like that when copying files to it.

Installed Crucial P3 plus 2TB Nvme SSD with PiBOX India NVMe/NGFF SATA Dual Protocol SSD Enclosure (M2333DL). Connected it to windows laptop and formatted it with exFAT file system using windows disk manager. Next connected it to my android phone S20fe 5g and transfered 4gb file. It was very quick, didn’t record exact time but was surely under a minute. Was able to open the file on laptop. Worked flawsely. Excellent product.

I ordered this ssd for my 5 years old laptop which was very slow. But after installing the ssd, it is now butter smooth and boots up in seconds.
SSD packaging was good and there was an extra screw also provided to install the ssd in laptop. It gives read and write speeds upto 1600Mbps which is very good. Overall it was good but speeds could have been faster because other brands are providing faster SSDs in the same price segment.