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CT4000P3PSSD8
Controller: Phison’s E21T
Memory: Micron 176L QLC
DRAM Cache: N/A
Sequential Read: 4800 MB/s
Sequential Write: 4100 MB/s
Random Read: 650,000 IOPS
Random Write: 900,000 IOPS
Endurance (TBW): 800 TB
Warranty: 5 Years
Umart: https://www.umart.com.au/product/crucial-p3-plus-4tb-m-2-pci…
MSY: https://www.msy.com.au/product/crucial-p3-plus-4tb-m-2-pcie-…
Thanks, got one of them. Delivery was $18 but still decent
Is it worth gettting the P3 Plus over the regular P3 for ~$20 more if it's in a Gen 3 slot?
Probably comes down to fine-grained things like the NAND controller and TBW rather than pure throughput to choose between. $20 for a better controller is a good deal, but if they're the same chip model it makes no difference.
I haven't seen any concrete examples of a high-end Gen4 drive being bottlenecked by a Gen3 interface; it's usually the cache size that plays a much bigger part.
According to this SSD spreadsheet, they both use the same controller Phison E21T. TBW is identical 800TB. So I guess the P3 Plus might perform identically to the P3 in a Gen 3 slot?
Edit: it might worthwhile getting the Plus in case I upgrade to a Gen 4 compatible machine in the future
No
Wow! Cheaper than a normal 4tb ssd lol! Why can't they bring down the price of normal 4/8tb ssd's since these are dropping so much??
Very tempted but can't spend $$$ atm.
Cheaper than a normal 4tb ssd lol
If you're talking about sata ssds, Nvme ssds are the new normal ssd now.
Why would a company invest in improving SATA ssds if they're limited to 500 mb/s sata speeds, and take more material and packaging.
I'm not after a improved version of a sata ssd. I'd like a mass-storage ssd of 8tb or more to swap out sata hdd's. If M.2's are coming down in price, why aren't the sata's being cleared out or price coming down? I don't wanna spend >$1k on a fast storage drive.
agreed. my nas is waiting on cheap 4 or 8tb sata ssds for mass storage.
for power efficiency and reliability. not ridonculous speeds
@FoxJump: raid 10 in a 4bay is going to saturate a 10gb port anyway so its more like efficiency, reliability AND speed
@Puffy Vulva: yep id replace my 4 4tb raid6 with 4 4tb raid5 ssds if they were $200 each
i can also use 4nvmes on my nas .. so its a race as to whomever gets to that price point first
@FoxJump: I have a WD SN850 black 1TB with a few sata ssd's and a seagate firecuda 8tb 3.5" drive for mass storage. The speed of the wd sn850 is stupid fast. When playing games, it loads so fast that you stand there waiting for the map/group to count-in to start the game (battlefield) and other games that aren't that intensive where speed isn't really needed. That's why a 4/8tb sata ssd would do me fine
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