Crucial P3 Plus 1TB PCIe Gen4 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD, up to 5000MB/s - CT1000P3PSSD8

I upgraded my system with this Crucial P3 Plus 2TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD and it’s been outstanding. Speeds are impressive, up to 5000 MB/s sequential reads, which makes booting and launching apps almost instantaneousInstallation was seamless; my motherboard recognized it immediately, and it’s fully compatible with Gen4 as well as backward compatible with Gen3. Whether I’m loading large files or transferring data, performance remains ultra-smooth.The 2TB capacity gives me plenty of room for games, work files, and media, without compromising speed. Plus, the drive stays cool and reliable during extended use.Overall, this drive delivers premium Gen4 performance at a very fair price.

I purchased this Crucial1TB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD to use as a secondary file storage drive in the new Beelink SER8 Mini PC that I recently bought. This is the same exact 1TB Crucial SSD that already comes installed in the Beelink SER8 Mini PC as the boot drive, so they match perfectly. Also, since I have seen this question asked many times now, and I don't actually see the M.2 SSD slot size specification in the Amazon listing anywhere. This Crucial SSD is the longest size 2280 M.2 form factor. However, the M.2 2280 specification is actually shown on the Crucial SSD in the listing photos several times, but product photos aren't always accurate. This should hopefully clear up any confusion about the actual SSD size.The Crucial line of products are all made by MICRON, one of the largest and highest quality memory manufacturers in the world, so they are all very high-quality computer memory and storage drive components. I usually either purchase Samsung or Crucial memory and storage drives when building or upgrading computers. However, Crucial components always seems to be "on-sale" for nearly half the price as the equivalent Samsung products (as was this Crucial SSD), so most of the time I wnd up going with Crucial just for that reason.This Crucial SSD installed easily into the second M.2 NVME drive slot on the Beelink SER8 Mini PC motherboard. It was also immediately recognized by Microsoft Windows 11 Professional on boot-up. This Crucial SSD initialized and formatted (GPT/NTFS) with no issues at all. Once up and running the file transfer read and write speeds are very fast, and the drive temperature stays relatively cool under burn-in stress tests.Also, for those reviewers complaining that the actual capacity of these Crucial (or any other brand) SSDs is lower than advertised, that is perfectly normal. Due to computer "math" and memory overhead in any type of storage drive, the actually capacity will always be a little less than the advertised capacity. I have been an I.T. professional for over 25 years, so I have a lot of experience dealing with this drive capacity "issue."Overall, I highly recommend these Crucial SSDs, as well as all other Crucial products. These Crucial SSDs are easy to install/configure, fast, inexpensive, and they run cool. In fact, I still have some older 2.5 inch Crucial SSDs that have been in service for over 12 years, and they are still running like they are brand new. Pick up one (or a few) of these Crucial SSDs today. Trust me when I say, they are a great product!

I'm not a storage guru but I'd say this was well worth the money. Stores what I need it to, programs open quickly, no issues at all so far. What more does a *casual* PC user need?

Crucial is one of the most trusted names in the SSD space, right next to Samsung. I have owned many of their drives and have never had an issue.Bought this to upgrade a laptop I ended up returning. Storage (especially SSD storage) is always good to have around, so I decided to keep this despite returning the device I planned to use it with. Decided to make it an external Steam drive for my Steam Deck to store AAA games that I don't play as often. It initially transferred data at blazing fast speeds, but after transferring a few large games back to back, it slowed down dramatically. I did not bother to look up the specs of this drive as I just cared about capacity and read speeds. I am assuming this drive is similar to the Intel 660p. A large capacity SSD with blazing fast read speeds but a limited fast cache leading to dramatic write speed slowdowns once its filled at an affordable price. I expected this performance, given the price. Its not a big deal at all, depending on your use case. For storing games or hosting an OS where you mostly read data, this is a fantastic drive. If you are using this for an OS, I would recommend moving your downloads folder to another drive to ensure no slowdowns on the operating system if you are in the process of downloading hundreds of GB worth of data. If you want something that will be writing and rewriting data often, then you will need to spend more or have less capacity. This drive is an easy recommendation as long as you understand the tradeoffs of the technology.

This SSD has been in two laptops so far and has performed very well. It's easy to install and I have had zero issues with speed or reliability.

Works great, it's fast. Would be five stars but it came completely unusable the first time. Replacement worked great.