I bought two of these, one 2TB and one 4TB.
My old computer was starting to act up and when I got to thinking about it, I built it 8-10 years ago and using an SSD for the internal system drive. As I was researching building a new computer I was totally unaware of these NVMe's. Basically they look just like a stick of chewing gum. The motherboard I bought, as most now do too, had 3 slots for these with an added PCIe expansion card to accept 2 more. (not saying all boards have this many slots, just that this is the new technology)
Anyway, I did a lot of research on these. They are SOOOOO much faster than the old SSD's and especially the old platter drives spinning at 5400 and even 7200RPM. There really is NO comparison. This is the way to go.
My only complaint is that they don't make these big enough for me so I still have a 10TB platter drive for data storage. I do a lot of video and photos so need this kind of room. If you just use one of these for your system drive (Master) and either an SSD or platter for your data, it's still a huge improvement but do know that when you go to access your platter drive, if it has stopped spinning, will take a bit to spin up and come on line, so that is going to be your bottle neck for speed.
Now for the stuff you are probably wondering about. When looking at these drives, and comparing, look at the access speeds on these. You can get cheaper NVMe's but note the access speeds. I went with the P3+ because it's access speed is 5000. There are faster ones available too but I thought for the speed this P3+ (make sure it's the + version) has, the price was very reasonable.
The bad, I was unaware, after buying these, that these DO wear out. I know platter drives do but that is a physical thing. These drives were out because of the technology used to write, erase and rewrite. I forget the name of it off hand but basically the memory on these wear out after so many writes/erases etc. Now granted, it's in terabytes and for some will last for years and maybe decades. Maybe even for me too, But I only bring this up because as I started looking into this, If you spare the extra money, I highly recommend going with the Crucial P5+. It's rating for life cycle is over 10Xs more than the P3+. The only thing about the P5+ however is that the largest size it currently comes in is 2TB. I did buy one of those too and I should have used that one as my system master drive. but I'm sure that the P3+ will be fine. I have a tendency to go full bore on just about everything I do. But because the P5+ TBW rating is so much higher, I marked this down on the durability portion.
One other piece of advice I would give. If you're not in a hurry, continually keep checking on the price. I've seen the price going up and down on a daily basis. sometimes by as much as 75 dollars or more. So if your patient you can pick these up at a much better price if you just consistently keep checking.
| 品牌 | Crucial 英睿达 |
|---|---|
| 制造商 | Crucial |
| 商品尺寸 | 8 x 0.23 x 2.21 cm; 17.01 克 |
| 电池 | 锂离子电池 需要电池。 |
| 颜色 | 黑色 |
| 硬盘容量 | 4 TB |
| 硬盘描述 | 固态驱动 |
| 硬盘接口 | NVMe |
| 电压 | 1.1 伏特 |
| 硬件平台 | PC, Mac |
| 是否包含电池 | 不是 |
| 商品重量 | 17 g |
