New all time low even better than Amazon
QLC with no DRAM so best used as a secondary storage drive
Single sided PCB
CT4000P3SSD8
Controller: Phison E21T
Memory: Micron 176L QLC
DRAM Cache: n/a
Sequential Read: 3500 MB/s
Sequential Write: 3000 MB/s
Random Read: n/a
Random Write: n/a
Endurance (TBW): 800 TB
Warranty: 5 Years
Edit 11/11 - back in stock at higher $445 price
Phison E21T based SSDs sure are flooding the market.
Wow. Great deal for bulk SSD storage - cheaper than it has ever been on Amazon USA!! Definitely not so great for a boot drive though.
So would this be good as a Steam game drive storage?
yes it would be amazing for that
Hard to believe these are already ~$100/tb. Great deal OP
can't believe this is cheaper than a 4TB Crucial MX500 not sure about TBW though
They're different drives. MX500 has TLC NAND (more durable and faster) and DRAM cache (better for NAND endurance, faster). This one has QLC NAND and no DRAM cache.
I bought a MX500 and one of these, so i can run them in SLI for more frames in my games.
Now get two GPUs in RAID 0. Striped GPUs are the way forward.
DRAMLESS!
This OR Crucial MX500 4TB 2.5' SATA ??
Just wait for MX500 to go on sale, happens frequently and it should get cheaper.
Yeah MX500 is worlds better, you'll notice the speed loss on these
What, for "general storage drive for photos, games etc" you will barely notice the difference between NVMe and basic SATA. You definately won't notice any difference between a fast and faster NVMe !
MX500 is SATA w DRAM
MX500 requires cables and a 2.5" drive bay, this fits under my motherboards heat spreader. Better can mean different things to different PC builds. I removed all drive cages and am trying to keep cabling to a minimum, so M2 makes more sense in my case. Just curious though, and im too lazy to google it, just taking speed in to consideration is the SATA MX500 actually faster than this NVME drive?
SATA maxes out at 600Mb … this drive is 5x faster at sequential reads and writes.
write speed plummets from 3.2 GBps to 100 MBps
Pretty significantly slower: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/crucial-p3-ssd-review/2
@Austere: No.
You have to write over 550GB to the drive at 3000Mb/s all in one go to trigger that particular condition.
It's a complete none issue. Focusing on these weird edge cases doesn't help anyone, and other posters definitely shouldn't be choosing a drive based on these vanishingly rare scenarios !
There was a seller on Amazon selling the "Crucial P5 Plus 1TB PCIe 4.0 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD, up to 6600MB/s - CT1000P5PSSD8 Black"
For $129… RRP $179…I bought it right away! Hope I receive an original one though 😅
Just saw the post and clicked to go to skycomp… says they're sold out :-(
Does skycomp accept zip pay? Can't find anything on their site to say so.
What a ripper of a price though!!
Might be a dumb question.
Is this compatible for a PS5?
Nope. Pretty sure Ps5 only supports some higher end PCI-e gen 4.0 NVME drives, whereas this one is Gen 3.0. Please correct me if I'm mistaken.
Dumb response as I don't have a PS5, so other replies will outrank this… I understand PS5 is PCIe 4.0 interface only, with formal spec at >5,500Mbps but slower drives work. PS5 also formally needs a heat sync that fits. I have read people run PS5 without heat sync but YMMV. I.e. this drive is not for PS5 as I understand things
This is a GREAT price for 4TB 👌