It's wild how little 4TB of speedy SSD storage will cost you right now
Crucial P3 Plus | 4TB | 4,800MB/s seq. read | 4,100MB/s seq. write | 5-year warranty | $399.99$224.99 at Amazon (save $175)(opens in new tab)While this drive hasn't been $399.99 for a long time now, that $224.99 price tag is still a very good deal today. It's not the quickest drive, but as a game library vessel it's plenty quick enough for speedy load times and access to video files.
Another day, another SSD going for an almost unbelievably low price. We've really seen solid state storage prices tumble down in recent years, and it seems they're not done yet with this Crucial P3 Plus drive going for $225 at Amazon(opens in new tab) for four terabytes of storage.
Crucial's P3 Plus is an NVMe SSD best used to store heaps of game installation files, or perhaps video content. It's not the sort of drive we'd recommend as your primary storage, as it's generally using QLC NAND and a slower controller than other contemporary PCIe 4.0 drives, but it's cheaper than say a 4TB WD_Black SN850X(opens in new tab).
A whole lot cheaper.
At $225, you're getting plenty of gigabytes for your money. In our review of the 2TB version of this drive, we said it just wasn't cheap enough at $179. Well, double the storage capacity for just 25% more cash is a deal we actually like quite a lot, as any misgivings we had about the drive's performance at its original price fade away.
Like I say, though, this isn't the fastest drive around. It's a PCIe 4.0 SSD rated to 4,800MB/s sequential read and 4,100MB/s sequential write. The thing to note is that these speeds will deteriorate once the SLC cache is all filled up—that's essentially a part of the QLC NAND capacity provisioned to act as SLC NAND storage for faster transfers.
In a 4TB drive such as
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