Customer Ratings & Reviews

Outstanding value for flawless performance! Using six on these in my NAS device makes file transfer a breeze. No issues or problems whatsoever.

Fast and runs cool. A serious upgrade, moved from a 500GB to a 2TB Crucial makes the best memory and SSDs on the market. Buy with confidence. It is a 3x4 but this is my game drive, so no biggie

I'm using this drive primarily for a gaming drive, not my OS drive. The drive plugged right in and Windows detected it with no issues. Didnt have to dig into disk management to online the drive, only to change the drive letter. Speeds are good and it runs cooler than another Samsung NVMe M.2 gen 3 drive I have installed. So far so good.

Excellent budget SSD with good price to performance ratio. Has so far been very reliable with no issues and solid speeds, much better than standard SATA SSDs. My M.2 slot does not support its full speed, however it is maximizing what is available to it.

Excellent Drive, Works super fast and reliable in my system. Would buy it again.

Bought this for a storage upgrade on my laptop, it did not disappoint with fast speeds and easy installation

Got this drive to use as an external drive(with an external enclosure) for photos and video storage. Works well, this is not the fastest drive if you plan to use this for primary storage but awesome for secondary storage give that I paid only $56 for a 2TB drive when it was on deal.

I got this to provide a backup clone to my system drive. Making the clone was easily done using Acronis, and proceeded without any problems. It is a good value SSD drive.

This was a good deal considering 1tb Nvmes are usually the price of this one but this one has 2tb and i havent had any issues with it after a couple of months using.

Was gonna buy it, but then it went on sale, so I had to jump on it. Quick load speeds so good for games. Would recommend

I have used Crucial memory (RAM) in the past on several computers and have never had an issue. The Crucial website has also always been helpful in verifying that I am getting the right type of memory or drive (form factor/specs) that will be compatible with my computer. The Crucial P3 2TB has good performance, runs cool with an inexpensive heatsink (see my install note below) and is a good value for the capacity it offers. I have a good size collection of games. My original hard drive on my ASUS ROG M16 GUGU603HE filled up quickly and I added a 1TB drive in the second M2 slot. Recently my daughter has taken an interest in gaming and 1TB started to seem pretty small. This Crucial P3 2TB drive should give us both room to grow without having to uninstall and reinstall games just to play them again. It is an inexpensive investment given how much I have invested in my game library (both time and money). (((Installation))) This was an easy DIY project with a inexpensive electronics tool kit I purchased online. It is a nice touch that Crucial includes the hold down screw in case your computer does not have one or it gets lost. To keep the drive cool I purchased a kit made for M2 drives that includes a flat copper heat sink and gel silica (thermal) pads with a few different thicknesses. The top of the drive is not perfectly flat (there is a high spot in the middle) so I did remove a small amount of the silica pad so that the ridged copper heat sink would sit level. Since I am using this for game storage, I formatted the drive as one volume using Windows Disk management. (((Performance))) Crucial does offer software to help monitor and manage their drive, but already had CrystalDisk(Info & Mark) installed so I used it to run a few test and check temperatures. Performance is right on what is stated in the Crucial specs (max read for me was 3478MB/s and write was 3029MB/s). It is a little slower than my old 1TB drive based on the test results (about 3%), but I did not notice any difference in real world use and it is twice the size. I was really impressed with how cool it runs, which was a struggle for my old drive (with the same heat sink). At idle it stays in the mid to high 30s (C). After running 2 CrystalDiskMark 1GB tests and moving 380GB data (read and write) the drive temperature peaked out around 52C.

Installed as a storage drive in my laptop for gaming and it’s been sailing. Great read/write speeds and no issues with compatibility.

Slow drive. If you're going to use this drive as a secondary storage drive, you may be ok, but it's one of the slowest m.2 nvme drives I've ever used!

The crucial P3 NVME SSD is a PCIE 3.0 compatible device I have the 2 TB version. This drive is capable of 3500 mb/s read and 3000mb/s write according to crucial. The drive comes well packaged in a crucial branded box with a plastic carrier for the drive and brief instructions with links to download Acronis true image cloning software and Crucial drive executive software which allows firmware updates, over provisioning and microns own cache to speed up drive access. I used this drive in my Dell G15 running Windows 11 to replace the OEM 500gb drive. Although this laptop has 2 SSD slots I used an SSD enclosure with USB C cable to clone the drive so I could duplicate the process that people would have with only 1 slot. You should go into Windows drive manager or the equivalent on a Mac and initialize the drive first so it will be recognized. I did not use the Acronis true image as I read some people had issues with it, instead I used a free third party utility to clone the drive. I also expanded the C drive partition with another utility because my drive had multiple partitions. I shut down the computer, removed the old SSD as I wanted to use it in my new USB enclosure as an external drive and installed the crucial P3 in its place. Some computers like mine have a 2230 size drive and this is a 2280 and involve moving a bracket or if you have a second SSD slot purchasing a bracket as a lot of laptops don't include these so check before if this is your plan or you will be waiting for your new bracket to arrive in the mail! On reboot the computer booted up correctly I installed the Crucial drive executive software to check if a firmware update was necessary but it was up to date. I did not over provision the drive or install the extra cache as Windows 11 is optimized to use this type of drive and these 3rd party cache applications tend to be less stable and cause problems. Drive performance was great. I have attached the images of the windows benchmarks. This was a great upgrade giving me a lot more space and improving the drive speed great for gaming and video editing as well as general computer use. This drive gives an impressive amount of space with excellent real use speed it is not the fastest but is fast enough to please most users.

If you’re looking at this review, I’ll assume you already know the advantages of SSD drives as an upgrade. With the prices and selections being somewhat close amongst vendors you’re probably looking at specs, reliability, and support to help differentiate and help you make a choice. I’ll always look around; there’s no reason not to be an educated consumer these days. But when it comes to RAM and SSD, I go with Crucial whenever possible. Their specs are usually better (or at the least, comparable) with the competition and I’ve experienced their reliability firsthand – both as a consumer and as a former IT head and consultant. But where Crucial shines even brighter is their support. From the very beginning, their site makes it easy to choose and check compatibility BEFORE you buy. They list specs, but more importantly they EXPLAIN the specs and why they’re important. The landing page for this particular product is clearly laid out, with a compatibility checker right at the beginning of the page. In the support links, you can find links to step by step video/text tutorial section for the specific product you’re looking at to help you to install and setup your new item with truly easy to follow instructions and prep. For drive install like this one, they even offer a branded version of Acronis True Image (a product I use for my own daily backups) to allow you to clone your old drive and restore it to the new one – again, with great instructional content. This is SO important when you’re looking for ways to differentiate between different companies. You know they’ll be there to back up their product. As far as this particular drive, I was impressed with the speed and capacity as well as the listed MTTF of 1.5 million hours. MTTF is an ESTIMATE, calculated as the number of hours powered on per year divided by the annual failure rate. Assuming it’s powered on 100% of the time, this would roughly equate to a test with 1000 drives running for 6 months straight with about 3 drives ending up failing. Pretty solid for a server, let alone the average desktop! I’ve installed mine as a boot drive in a Dell Inspiron 3910 that I have set up as home lab server, running virtual machines. An SSD is a perfect choice for tasks like this, but even a desktop home office user or a gamer would benefit from this upgrade. If I had to really search for any kind of a complaint – and I mean I’m really digging here – is that the mounting screw Crucial supplies for NVMe drives never seems to work. The head of the screw isn’t quite a wide enough diameter. Not sure why this is but the 3-4 installs I’ve done have been upgrades so I simply used the screw from the original installation. But if you’re adding a new drive, you might want to check; in a lot of cases the manufacturers have a screw in the mount even if there’s not a drive installed. Maybe it’s just me, but I HAVE run into this in the past. To reiterate, that’s me reaching. Otherwise, I’d highly recommend not only this particular drive (which is running great in my server), but also Crucial’s other drives and RAM products.

It got damanged not even two months after installation. Now I need to go an spend more money on another drive to install

Crucial is a very reputable brand that's been around for decades. If you don't care about the speed of gen4 drives or just don't want to spend too much for storage this is a great option. I used it in my laptop and installation was super easy. This drive maxes out the bandwidth limits of pcie gen3 so it runs fast but doesn't get very how which is great. One thing to consider is the TBW (TeraBytes Written) value of this drive. It's endurance rating is only 440TBW which is plenty for the average person but may not be ideal for someone who uses it work downloading or transferring huge amounts of data regularly.

OK so we all know there may be faster SSDs on the market but currently there's no cooler running SSD on the market then the P3 family. Go ahead and look up independent tests and they'll tell you that at idle these things barely register above room temperature and they do thermally throttle correctly, that is to say they don't go into near explosion overheated then throttle they throttle a reasonable temperature and still give good consistent performance. Now why would you care about this on a modern system? Tablets and laptops is the answer. Most tablets and laptops do not have heat sinks or very good Silicone material to wick heat away from their SSDs. Because of this you're going to be prone to SSD overheat and failure in smaller embedded devices that don't have supplied heat sinks. The fastest performing SSD devices on the market require large active cooling solutions. This one does not. And I will personally say that from the speeds I've witnessed I don't know why any regular Person would need any faster speed for the current Windows 11 or MacOS platforms. Unless you're doing a large amount of video encoding or special gaming this SSD is going to be very fast and you will be pleased with its overall performance and reliability. The heat is the answer. These things have an incredibly low idle power consumption and as stated above they have some of the best thermal throttling on the market currently. Yes you sacrifice a little speed but I'd happily sacrifice a little speed for reliability. Also the crucial management software, well not the best, works just fine with this in a tablet and properly upgraded its firmware and was able to manage it even as the primary boot device. If you don't have an active cooling solution ready this is the chip you want. If you do have an active cooling solution go ahead and buy a faster chip and enjoy it.

Very fast and at a great price. I bought four of them and made a 1+0 RAID (which makes 8TB of total space come out to 4TB of double redundant storage) out of them with a Thunderbolt 3 enclosure. Storage is lightning fast with these drives. Write speed was 945 Gbps, and read speeds were 2,300 Gbps. Not the fastest for sure, but for the price it's perfect for my needs.

Very pleased with the SSD. Performance is very good and had no problem installing the SSD. Crucial software to clone did not work for me since my original SSD was not a crucial product. That was frustrating and had to use an alternative software to clone.