Crucial - P5 Plus 2TB Internal SSD NVMe PCIe Gen 4 x4

Excellent choice for a budget. Used my BestBuy card rewards and was able to get it while on sale for a total of about $80. Using a Sabrent heatsink, we have had no performance or temperature issues. Very easy to install after watching 2 youtube videos.

Picked this up after a lot of research and I couldnt be happier. The price/performance and capacity of the drive was just unbeatable and I’m sure this one will last me a long time.

Impressive read and write speeds. Excellent price point for most users.

Working great so far. The Crucial software worked great to get everything transferred and installed too.

It was easy to install and clone the boot drive of my new motherboard. Hard to see in the photo as I added a heat sink to further protect the SSD from damage. Its been a week or two and working great. I find the boot time is much less with SSD verses conventional hard drives. Large enough for my computing needs and fast. Cost effective and reliable.

I purchased my Crucial drives to put into a hardware RAID, since my motherboard came with a ROG hardware RAID card and I wanted to get some use of it, and transition to mostly NVME-storage across the board. Drive software like WD "drive" (not so creatively named) and Samsung Magician cannot update firmware or do much of anything with drives in RAID (or if, like me, your mobo defaulted to VOD-on and IRST) ... so Crucials were a good fit. I was looking for a midrange with good specs and good reliability. So far, it seems like I've gotten that, and I have no complaints about the Crucials. Despite not being the most expensive Gen-4s (like Firecuda or Black) I'm getting pretty good specs. I have a second RAID of Samsung 980s (I updated the firmware on a different mobo using SamsungBIOS and then transferred them physically over) and they don't perform much better, though hosting C drive or OS slows any partition ion my experience, even when that Windows it isn't actively in use.

I was quickly running out of space on my Alienware X15 R1 500GB Drive so I install the Crucial P5 Plus 3TB Gen 4 Drive. Crucial's site guaranteed that the Gen 4 Drive would work although it was not suggested by Alienware. I bought a heat sink on Amazon. I removed the MB power connector, then moved the 500GB Drive and Heatsink from Slot 0 to Slot 1. Then I inserted the new 2TB Drive and heatsink in Slot 0. I restored the power connector and powered up. I acknowledged the clock warning as expected, then I partitioned and formatted the new space into two equal partitions. I could not figure out how to get a fresh install on the OS Drive or how to use the Acronis for Crucial to install the OS on the new drive. No instructions. For that I took away one star. Otherwise my laptop works fine.

So far, so good. A little dissatisfied with the PS5 read speed of 5652mbps because it’s rated for 6600mbps. Glad it’s still in the PSR recommended mark. Hopefully there may be a future firmware update to take advantage of the quoted speeds. Loaded all my games on this drive and they work perfect with no lag during extended use of play.