Review on 💨 Crucial P1 1TB 3D NAND NVMe PCIe Internal SSD - CT1000P1SSD8, with lightning-fast speeds up to 2000MB/s by Chris Budenski

At this price point, this drive is no problem: it's an NVMe SSD from one of the best names in the business, but at the same price as a SATA SSD. . Performance doesn't quite match that of high-end SSDs like Samsung's EVO or Pro series, but it's still far better than even top-of-the-line SATA SSDs. At worst, performance is as good as any SATA SSD. . In all other cases, the performance is definitely better than any SATA SSD, although it is about 1/2 to 2/3 the performance of a top-of-the-line NVMe drive. It's not the best drive for consistently heavy workloads like a database server. , but it is ideal as a daily driver for resource-intensive applications that run during periods of high activity, such as gaming or professional audio (I personally need and use large SSDs for both). If a future 2TB version costs similar, I'll definitely buy one of those as well. Copying a 25GB folder of video files (average size of around 200MB each) happened in seconds and reached speeds of around 1300MB/s. The original drive was a 970 EVO 1TB NVMe SSD. Copying a 27GB folder with over 40,000 audio samples (mostly small files like 1 second drum beats) took about 2 minutes. The transfer rate was around 50 MB/s at the lowest level and around 400 MB/s at the peak. Lower speeds have been associated with tiny file packages. The original drive was a Micron M1100 2TB SATA 2.5" SSD, which limits the maximum read speed to around 500MB/s. Copying a 25GB video folder from P1 back to itself took about 1 minute and ranged from about 200MB/s to about 2000MB/s. This process is likely accelerated by caching and other internal magic. my 970 EVO 1TB M.2 NVMe on the same system.