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28.11.2018

Capacity reviewed; 1TB.This is only the second QLC (quad level cell) NVMe PCIe M.2 to come to the consumer market. It comes from a joint development project between Intel and Micron. It is superior to the Intel 660p, which uses the same QLC memory, because is has 1GB of RAM per TB of storage. The Intel version only has 256MB regardless of storage size. This means that it remains responsive with heavier workloads than the Intel version. On my own tests it happily managed 1,800MB/s Read/Write speeds on sequential loads. This is more than enough for use as a primary drive in my laptop.The only reported downside of this SSD is that as it fills up to capacity it will slow down.This can be mitigated by leaving unused space for something called 'over provisioning'. This basically leaves a portion of the SSD empty to be used to improve the longevity of the drive and maintain high performance. I formatted the drive to 800GB capacity leaving ~130GB for over provisioning. This may seem like a waste to some but I always over provision about 10-20% of the space on all my SSDs. This is because I want them to last a long time and not slow down.My laptop boots up in seconds, logs in and has all applications running in no time at all. The SSD has ample capacity for all my applications, documents and music. It was easy to install but required reinstalling Windows and all software from scratch because I couldn't clone the old drive (no way to connect it up). All in all a good value consumer SSD and a worthy upgrade to modern laptops that often only have 128GB SSDs installed.
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22.5.2019

Thinking back to when I once bought a 3.5" HDD featuring 250MB for £249.99 and was pleased about it... the fact I just bought a 1TB m.2 SSD which is about the size of a folded playing card puts things into perspective.Installation is easy - you slot it in the m2 slot and a screw holds in the other end. I thought it was a bit mean that the screw wasn't included in this product hence the dropped star on installation.Crucial's website features software to clone the existing HDD onto this. You then remove the old HDD and you're ready to go. I cloned a 1TB drive to this so the size was identical. One note of caution - it is difficult to keep the existing HDD in when you install this as it uses UEFI rules about which device boots.I removed the old HDD in the end, but I suspect if I put it in now it would be okay and the system would know to boot off the m2 device.In terms of performance, so far so good... I used this to replace a 1TB 7200 SSHD (hybrjd) on an i5 laptop with 20GB RAM. The results have been amazing - Windows 10 takes 3 seconds compared to maybe 15secs, but the real difference is once you are into Windows there's no waiting for everything to work. It's also a lot more lightweight which may appeal.I really recommend this device - if it fails of course it fails big (there's no sectors to recover) but if you have a good backup strategy it should be fine. There is an argument for having 2 storage devices.. OS on SSD and data on physical spinning drives, but that adds weight - you just have to ask if it's worth it or not.
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16.4.2019

Installation was fairly straight forward, had to remove the graphics card to slot it into my motherboard but it was to be expected. Motherboards should come with them included, but it would have been nice if Crucial provided a M.2 standoff and screw in the package.Performance wise it's faster than expected, quite a bit faster than my SATA SSDs. You'll only really run into the QLC NAND being slower issue (~60MB/s) if you write over 50GB concurrently, if you don't overwhelm the SLC cache then it's going to reach its rated speeds (~900MB/s for this 500GB model).Only real complaint is that the P1 controller (3rd temperature) does reach >80C if you stress it with lots of writes and can throttle (which seems normal for NVMe drives).Usually it sits between 50 to 70C during normal use.Update: Would highly recommend you get a cheap little heatsink for this SSD, it'll delay the controller throttling and improve responsiveness if you use it as an OS drive. It's not really needed if you just use it as a secondary/game drive.And a word on endurance, it's really good! I'm at over 6TB of writes and the drive still has 98% life remaining, Micron's QLC is impressive.
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22.5.2019

Four not five stars, why?In part for reasons that are inherent to the drive and are not quality issues.The drive is fast; I installed this as a boot drive and keep my working files on the drive. My machine boots fast and is responsive in use. Applications load fast, so much faster than my previous hard drives.Copying big files can be pretty slow, that's files over 30-40 GB, but that is not an everyday activity for me. Also, the drive is not as fast as more expensive ones. That's why I have marked it down, but, to be fair, that's about the drive's design and type. I'd happily buy another one as a boot drive. I'd not recommend it if you use big Zip files or video files. I am not a gamer,but I'd guess that copying some games might be a tad slow too.So, 4 out of 5 might seem poor in a world where five is OK, and everything else is a fail. That's not a world I want to live in, and so 4 out of 5 is very bloody good, and a sound recommendation with the caveats noted above.Please hit the like button if you found this brief review helpful; doing so helps other readers to know that the information is useful and encourages me to write more reviews - thanks!
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21.12.2018

I've just replaced a 32GB Optane memory module with the Crucial P1 500GB SSD on a Alienware Aurora R7 and straight away Windows 10 boots consistently faster. Optane memory was a bit hit and miss, sometimes the OS would boot fast and sometimes it was HDD slow. At first I cloned my HDD to the SSD but that didn't work very well, the OS kept crashing and then refused to boot at all. I did a clean install of Windows 10 and I worked perfectly. I haven't bothered benchmarking the SSD, what matters is real world performance and as far as I can see it's super fast. I did consider the Samsung EVO 970 but at the time of purchase it was significantly more expensive.On paper it appears to be faster but from what I understand the higher read/write speed would only make a difference if you were moving very large files, not something the average user would do, maybe useful if you're video editing. The Crucial Storage Executive software is very good. There is no reason to put up with the OS on a HDD when SSDs are this cheap. I would highly recommend this SSD.
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27.10.2018

I was in the same position as another review owning an Apple Laptop - in my case a MacBook Pro 13" 2018 model with existing 512Gb solid state drive. It's not an option to use the Crucial P1 1TB drive internally so I also purchased a rather smart external case with both one of the newish USB-C connectors which my laptop uses together with a USB A for maximum flexibility with older machines if not speed.The P1 works brilliantly as an external drive with the laptop and I can also use it with a couple of iMacs using the standard USB connection. With a 1Tb capacity it offers excellent alternate backup to cloud storage and of course access to files when an internet connection is not available.It'sa bit irritating having to buy an external case and connection unit but worth it with the quality of the P1 and the memory capacity.A bit costly nonetheless, but a firm four stars.
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21.5.2019

Well this was my First SSD of any form, It came in a box that was a bit large for it, but was surrounded by packaging cardboard and was inside its own box and anti static Clamshell.It unfortunatly does not come with a Screw to lock it down so scavenged one from the wifi card of an old laptopbut spent a long while trying to get windows 10 to detect and install on it correctly (like 4 hours of it) but once done it has been amazing everything is so fast (going to the work laptop is now painfully slow knowing what is out there) I went with the 500GB hoping to have a bit of space to spare but as its got windows and Ark on it does not leave much room might Aim to get a 1TB normal SSD for othergames,All in all great purchase works mostly as it says but that is my Mobo's fault (Asus 350B Prime)
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20.3.2020

Product is great, reliable, works fine. Had it almost a week. Mine does benchmark a lot slower than most for this model (about 30% under so still way quicker than a SATA SSD. I think the issue is that I have generic windows NVMe drivers from 2006 running ... and not the Crucial drivers from 2016 specifically for this model.The problem is, every time I install Crucial's drivers for this product, it bricks my PC and I am faced with a black screen on boot. I have to restore the PC back to before the driver was installed before it will boot again.*Also note, great for clean install, but you will have a torrid time cloning an old drive onto this one unless both are NVMe. This is because NVMe uses UEFI and ...nevermind, just think clean install of Windows only.
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30.6.2019

I bought this SSD to replace the older SSD in my Macbook Air (11" 2014) via a converter. Fundamentally it worked straight out of the box and the speed gains were immediately noticeable. Speed tests (as seen in the first image) show that the drive races along with no issue - though it's worth keeping in mind for this review that as it's hooked up to an adapter there may be some performance degradation.Curiously it's one of the few drives I've owned that seems to actually just about give me the space as advertised on the box which I only see as a bonus. That said however I will keep an eye on performance and update on this review over time.Considering the price point it does make me wonder if there'll be any slippage in the near future.
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15.11.2018

For those who don't know, this is the latest in solid state memory. One whole Terabyte is contained in this little drive.It can replace an existing drive, or be added if your computer has an additional slot.The big caveat is, the connection is the latest one, and older computers may well not have an appropriate slot for it.If that's the case, then you're looking at a hunt on Amazon or ebay for a compatible enclosure, and it can be turned into an external hard drive.That's also a bit tricky, most enclosures are for older connections, so be careful.But if you can use it, it's very good.Works with PC's and Macs - haven't tried it with a gaming system yet.Definitely worth it.

30.11.2018

I ordered this after checking with an I.T. savvy mate of mine who confirmed that he could order me an external case for it to work as an external hard drive. It mean I now have a handy and huge 1TB external backup drive which I use to store mixes and audio files from my home studio setup. It also allows me to transport large audio files to work on with others using their studio setup.Really handy, easy to setup (as far as I can tell - I outsourced this aspect to my friend who is more clued up with this stuff).It's a pricey piece of kit but worth the money when you're dealing with hours and hours of work that you want to either back up or switch around.

12.11.2019

The drive is small and fiddly to install but once installed it is lightning quick. Don't use the recommended software to transfer your operating system to the new drive as it's awful. It doesn't cope well when transferring data from a bigger HDD, it's unbelievably slow (took 2-3 hours to run) and it frequently crashes. Download a free tool like Minitool Partition Wizard instead, which coped much better and completed the transfer in under an hour at the first attempt. Now that it's installed and fully up and running, it's probably the best upgrade I've made to my computer in terms of overall performance..

15.12.2019

Used this for Steam games and set 10% overprovisioning using Seagate Storage Executive.Its quick enough to make most SATA SSDs look positively slow but its not the quickest NVME drive by any means.Mine is installed immediately below a RTX2060 card and hasn't got anywhere near 60C even using synthetic benchmarks/burn-in tools.Bundling a screw would help most people as M2 mounting pillar threads on motherboards are not a widely available size - ie you might need to mail-order it if the people who built your machine didn't fit the screw.

30.5.2019

Fitting it went better than when I tried to clone a sata drive to NVMe for the dsektop. This time it was sata m.2 250GB to this NVMe 1TB. CLoned the whole drive, including windows restore image etc then moved the last two partitions using a free partition editor.Product works fine, appears faster than the SATA I had , though I dont have benchmarks, and of course is big enough for all the data I need to carry on my laptop.Great value, easy to do (depends on your laptop layout of course, mine is a Dell Lattitude) - would recomend.

26.11.2018

Having discovered that my Lenovo Yoga only has one (occupied) slot I decided not to attempt to replace that card and void the warranty. So, I have purchased an external case for this card and turned it into a 1TB external drive.Very effective it is too - once you work out which case has the appropriate connections for this newer connection type.Transfer times are perfectly acceptable, as it is going through the USB connection now and it makes a wonderful storage area for my extensive collection of photographs and document.

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