This PCIe 4.0 drive was $180 last year
That’s a phenomenal deal for a drive that can hit up to 5000MB/s sequential reads with 680K IOPS random reads and 850K IOPS random writes.
The Crucial P3 Plus is a drive that we’ve covered before, so allow past me to take it away:
The one failing that this drive has it that its QLC NAND and HMB cache doesn’t quite have the stamina of a design with TLC NAND and a DRAM cache, eg if you’re capturing 4K video directly to the drive for sustained periods. For that, you’ll want a higher-tier drive like the Solidigm P44 Pro, WD SN850x or Samsung 990 Pro, many of which are detailed in our roundup of thebest gaming SSDsfor your viewing pleasure.
