Crucial P1 1TB 3D NAND Nvme PCIe M.2 SSD - CT1000P1SSD8

So this is for an Acer Predator Helios 300... ( PH315-5178NP to be precise) The genius crew over at Acer didn't include a maintenance panel on the back for the system hard drive, only one for the RAM and one for the 2.5" drive bay. When I bought this drive, I mistakenly thought there was an nvme m.2 expansion slot to add another drive. Wrong. So I had to replace my system drive with this drive, and to do that I had to jump through a few hoops. Including removing the entire back panel from the laptop to access the m.2 hdd slot. So here's the adventure I went on: Bought this m.2 (M-keyed) pciex4 nvme 1Tb drive. Realized there was no expansion slot. Looked into the included 'Acronis True Image' and it requires at least one of the drives in the imaging pair to be a Crucial drive. Ordered a Crucial 1Tb 2.5" MX500 ssd. When that arrived: Cloned my original 256G non-Crucial branded m.2 drive over to the new 2.5" ssd. Removed the original m.2 drive, and put this new Crucial m.2 1Tb drive in place. Cloned the 2.5" MX500 ssd to this new m.2 1Tb drive. Removed the 2.5" MS500 ssd and booted Windows off this Crucial m.2 1Tb drive. Added the 2.5" drive back to the system, formatted it. So now my system drive is this Crucial m.2 1Tb drive, with the Crucial MX500 1Tb 2.5" ssd as the expansion drive. Now it's got 2Tb of storage, and the main drive is clocking read speeds at the 2k mark. Went from 256G total storage to 2Tb of total storage, and a big improvement in speed. Now this laptop is a legit gaming rig and I can install several big AAA title games without the fear of running out of storage space. This crucial drive is running Windows very quickly, all Windows-related tasks are accomplished instantly. Very impressed with the performance/value. The Crucial Acronis True Image software is very good. Perfect at cloning the original drive multiple times with no issue, and perfect for 'cleansing' the storage drive. Very pleased overall with this purchase.

A little context: I'm commercial photographer and videographer and have been using G-Technology G-Drives for the better part of 10 years. I shoot tethered to, work directly off of, and backup to these drives. So needless to say, external hard drives are an integral part of my workflow. I've been researching SSD drives for some time now but have been waiting for the price/GB to come down. I've had my eye on this Crucial 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD for probably the past 6 months. I saw the price dip to $95 and decided to pull the trigger. And oh my god am I glad I did. Using Blackmagic's Speed Test I measured both my 2TB 7,200RPM G-Drive and this 1TB NVMe SSD. My G-Drive came in at an average of 108 MB/s with USB-A 3.0, which I've been used to for some time. I was completely astounded when I saw that my new Crucial 1TB NVMe SSD was getting 9x's better (!!!!!) read/write speeds at an average of 932 MB/s with USB-C. With USB-A to USB-C it was averaging around 460 MB/s. Which is still insane compared to my now dinosaur of a G-Drive. I paired this with the Sabrent USB 3.1 NVMe M.2 SSD Aluminum enclosure (https://amzn.to/35yLsi0) and could not be happier with the results. I wish this drive came in a 2TB+ option as I would likely pick up several of them. But this is an incredible step for me in the transition towards an all-SSD workflow. I'm including a screenshot of the Speedtest and photo of the the drive in the Sabrent enclosure for size context. SOME NOTES • It's very small, only a little bigger than a stick of gum. • Installation in an external NVMe M.2 enclosure is extremely simple. • Being a Mac user you will have to reformat this drive for it to work with your system (which I would recommend you do with any external hard drive anyway). • The speed is outrageous. • Only time will tell the longevity and performance of the drive as I've only been testing it for several days. For the price and performance, I would highly recommend buying this drive.

I installed this into my gaming machine. I already had a 1TB crucial SSD in it with my OS and games on it. Being a huge tech nerd, I just had to fill my M.2 socket, and when this went on sale, it had to be mine. I proceeded to migrate my Steam games over to it. I have yet to play any games off of it as I am renovating my kitchen, but while I was working hard, my PC was not because it took all the data I needed to copy over and did it fast. I don't have real world numbers for you, but it is noticeably fast. I copied a 10GB movie from my regular SSD to the M.2 and Windows 10 told me I was getting 370MB/s. In comparison, when I did the same copy to my other drive, which is spinning disk from a laptop I replaced a year ago, I was getting 35MB/s. So solid state does make a huge difference. Also since this M.2 drive is so tiny, it doesn't make any extra heat. If it does, my PC doesn't register it. Great price, decent size storage, dang fast. Buy it.

The SSD is fast and function as intended and delivery was fast.

Very fast and reliable. Speeds are great.

Os SSD's realmente dão um bom upgrade no PC. Fiz a aquisição desse SSD para aumentar a capacidade de armazenamento, devido alguns jogos que uso, da Steam. Substituí o anterior SSD, de 525 gb, por este, de 1000 gb (931 gb disponíveis ao usuário). Instalei em um Dell Inspiron 15 Gaming 5577, e está funcionando normalmente. Espero que dure, pelo menos tanto quanto seu antecessor.

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.

I purchased this just to store my pictures, videos, music, etc. It maybe overkill for just these kind of files, but I got this on sale. I thought for the price, the performance and the storage capacity is excellent. Max-level Master-PC-Emperors will NOT like this NVMe due to its specifications, but for a peasant like me it’s a great! It’s super fast! I would recommend this for someone looking for a simple & affordable NVMe SSD.