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

I tried to use a hard drive in an external enclosure to run virtual machines on it. As some other users reported in their test report, the speed drops from a pleasant 400 MB/s to a sad 80 MB/s after about 2 minutes of writing 400 GB of data. I suspect this is due to the hard drive throttling when it overheats. This drive heats up very quickly during write operations. And after a week of moderate usage, the drive first started randomly shutting down or freezing all windows, and then the system finally stopped recognizing the drive. I returned the first one thinking it might just be a defect but then the replacement did the same. I feel this drive can only tolerate light usage in a very well cooled system. Nothing more. I suggest you invest in a more expensive Samsung NVME SSD that can support high write speeds without melting.