Crucial P5 2TB 3D NAND NVMe Internal Gaming SSD, up to 3400MB/s - CT2000P5SSD8

I ordered 1TB version of the SSD back in March 2021. I has been several months now, Ive been extensively using and sometimes utilizing every gigabyte of the SSD :D (of course I leave about 20% empty in order to get the best of it) I havent met any problems since I received it. I recommend to anyone who wants to buy but keeps thinking about disadvantages as I was back in March

I ordered a 1 TB version since it was on sale on Prime Day. The read/write numbers were unacceptably low (in the 1500s). I returned the SSD and asked for a replacement. I received the new one today and just finished cloning it. I got around the same numbers again (see photo). Im giving it one star and will be returning this one for a refund and buying another brand. Update: After reading through the (very) fine print in my motherboard manual, it appears the slot I was using for the drive wasnt compatible with the expected (higher) speed of the drive. I tried putting the drive in a different slot and reran the numbers. Now Ive got even higher than rated speeds (see second picture). Raised the rating to 5 stars.

My main options were the Samsung Evo pro m.2 drives but they were much more expensive than this. I have never used a Crucial product so I was going out on a whim and now I wish I bough the 1TB instead. Installing programs, booting windows and transferring items to and from this drive is lightning fast. If you want to save a buck from other products but get similar (if not the same) performance then buy this.

Easy to install, ordered wrong one at first ,( you need the nvme not the m.2 -The m.2 will have 2 notches, the nvme has only one notch )you can see the old 250 gb on right & just loosen 8 screws on bottom of laptop, pry apart the bottom from the case carefully like opening a clam :) you see the empty spot upper right where it goes. just a pocket screwdriver that you use for the bottom plate screws is the same as the single one for the harddrive they dont strip if you have a good one. I used a flathead pocket screw driver to pry apart the case & bottom. if you really wanted you could upgrade the ram for $50 but i think 8 gb is fine for home & small buisness use. Shopping, school, using our stores remote cameras, teamviewer ect this laptop is great & the only ones avail right now are the 250 GB ones so this is a great upgrade! Go into the bios, disable secure boot & made a bootable zip from microsoft & then installed linux mint for dual boot.

Installed in minutes in a Dell XPS 15 7590 and greatly expanded storage, although this required rebuilding Windows and reinstalling software, but even thats not difficult these days.

There are two NVME slots in my laptop and this drive disappears randomly when installed in either slot. It is only 3 months old and used for mostly static storage not a boot drive. My other off-brand Inland SSD works fine installed in either slot. So much for brand name drives being more reliable. At least, when it works, the data is accessible and it is decently fast. Now it is time to find out how good or bad the warranty support is for a nearly $200 drive with a random hard to diagnose problem.

Since my five year old PC with an I7-6700 processor still had the computing power and a goof enough for photo hobbyist graphics card in it, I decided to use this 500GB SSD as my primary drive and my original 1TB HDD as my storage drive to speed up loading programs and throughput. Since the M.2 connector on my old motherboard was only a X1 speed, I also bought a PCIe adapter which had a X4 M.2 slot to use more of the SSDs speed potential. Installation was not difficult. Moving data was tedious. End result was that my PC runs much more quickly - hopefully postponing replacing the entire PC for a few more years.

This review is an update, as theyre not separating the P5 from P5 plus in reviews. For the non pus model, the product itself is great but there were no nvme screws. I realize most motherboards come with them but at the price tag they could include $1 worth of hardware. Please note the non plus is NOT compatible with a ps5 For the P5 Plus - This is the best budget SSD you can currently get for the PS5. Yes, you will have to get your own heat sink and install that yourself, but that cost is like $10 at the most. you will not find another SSD that even competes at the price, and definitely not one with a heatsink. also ironically, the p5 plus has a screw, just the plain p5 doesnt.

It works as advertised. I opened it and installed it into my board and it just makes loading games so fast. Games load in 15 secs or less. I have no clue about tech support or how good they are, I haven’t ran into any problems. My specs are Cpu: i9-9900k (not overclocked as of now) GPU: RTX 3060 Gigabyte Eagle dual fan Ram: 32 GB 3200 MHz Crucial ballistix Motherboard: MSI z390 gaming plus

I decided Id given Samsung enough of my money and decided to pick this up in 2TB for a gaming drive. Im not angry, just a little disappointed that I happened upon a drive that advertised such a dramatic difference. The price was slashed by almost half, I paid about $150 for an NVMe that has about 15% less potential bandwidth than the *maximum* advertised bandwidth. It was an objectively good buy factoring in the discount I received and I would assume the seller knows this is happening and adjusted the price as a result; I just feel like I didnt get the deal I was advertised. Turns out some other companies like Kingston, PNY, and Adata got caught with their pants down in the past selling SSDs with chips different than what was sent to editors and launch buyers. So just like with RAM kits, watch your vendors and roll the dice when the price is right. Lesson learned. Reality is crystal disk scores dont matter *that* much, PC mark says it performs about like other drives Ive bought. Well see what the longevity is like and thats my biggest concern with lower bin chips. Tl;dr this product is a dice roll, get it on a big sale to be safe.