Crucial P2 CT500P2SSD8 500 GB
 | Outdated Product £58.55 Relatively affordable and powerful 500 GB M.2 SSD with PCI-E Gen3 x4 interface and 3D QLC NAND memory. It has a frameless design, meets the dimensions of the 2280 standard. It is fully compatible with current models of motherboards equipped with an M.2 port with PCI-E support. The manufacturer is positioned as a model of the middle price category, designed to complete personal computers, miniPC, HTPC-systems and laptops of various levels and purposes. Suitable for entry-level gaming and workstations (without large volumes of streaming recording). The Crucial P2 CT500P2SSD8 SSD is based on a Phison PS5013-E13 multi-channel controller, working in conjunction with Micron's 96-layer 3D NAND flash memory. The drive demonstrates decent I / O performance, decent sequential read / write speed (230...0/950 MB / s within the SLC buffer) and low latency. The claimed guaranteed write resource (TBW 150 TB) allows you to overwrite up to 80 GB of data daily (within the framework of a proprietary five-year warranty). |
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Relatively affordable and powerful 500 GB M.2 SSD with PCI-E Gen3 x4 interface and 3D QLC NAND memory. It has a frameless design, meets the dimensions of the 2280 standard. It is fully compatible with current models of motherboards equipped with an M.2 port with PCI-E support. The manufacturer is positioned as a model of the middle price category, designed to complete personal computers, miniPC, HTPC-systems and laptops of various levels and purposes.
Suitable for entry-level gaming and workstations (without large volumes of streaming recording). The Crucial P2 CT500P2SSD8 SSD is based on a Phison PS5013-E13 multi-channel controller, working in conjunction with Micron's 96-layer 3D NAND flash memory. The drive demonstrates decent I / O performance, decent sequential read / write speed (2300/950 MB / s within the SLC buffer) and low latency. The claimed guaranteed write resource (TBW 150 TB) allows you to overwrite up to 80 GB of data daily (within the framework of a proprietary five-year warranty).
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When price decides
The Crucial P2 is another low-cost M.2 SSD that, due to its low price, competes not so much with other fast NVMe SSDs, but rather with slower and bulkier models running on the SATA 3 bus. Unlike the slow modifications of the P2 based on QLC memory, our test unit uses a more reliable and faster 96-layer 3D TLC NAND memory. The slow versions of the Crucial P2 have the prefix "UK CA" in the name.
P - drawdowns
Given the official price list, performance records are out of the question. According to the passport, 940 MB / s are claimed for linear recording and 2300 MB / s during reading. Like many entry-level drives, it cannot boast of having a full-fledged DRAM chip for caching, which negatively affects the speed of the drive when copying large data arrays. However, not as much as we feared. In real tests, the linear write speed is kept at the promised 940 MB / s, but when the buffer is full, it does not drop below 418 MB / s. For comparison, most SATA SSDs roll down to 150 Mbps once the buffer is full. And some with their 55 – 70 MB / s unsuccessfully cosplay slow mechanical hard drives.
Decent option for laptops and compact PCs
At the same time, each Crucial P2 model is accompanied by an extended five-year warranty from the manufacturer, and the mining resource is quite decent, albeit not a record 150 TB. Plus, the P2 controller heats up slightly, so the P2 will fit into the case of a compact PC or laptop like a native. All this makes the P2 almost an perfect option for upgrading an existing SSD (if there is not enough capacity) or completely replacing a standard hard drive (this is if there is not enough speed).
