Anyone have long term success with their Crucial P3 NVMe SSD?

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Last year, my first 4TB version lasted for 3.5 months as the Windows 11 OS before giving me the occasional BSOD's. I returned it to Amazon and my 2nd Crucial P3 lasted for one year as my music storage drive. Like the first drive, it started acting up, crashing and freezing after a few hours of use, so I returned it and am now using the 3rd P3, again, as music storage. So far, it's been good, but it's only been a week.

I'm not getting my hopes up that 3rd time's the charm. If, or when, this one goes belly up, and Crucial won't give me a discount on a different (cached?) drive, I'll just swallow my losses and try out a Kingston, Samsung, WD, SanDisk, or something else.

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timmmay82@reddit

Chiming in I have been running a P3 (non-Plus) pretty hard for the last 2 years as my torrent caching drive. 433251 GB written, shows 55% life remaining, but available spare blocks still at 100%. Great drive. Just make sure you have plenty of RAM for the HMB to work well if you are going to thrash it like I do. My other drives are Hynix\Solidigm P41 (non-Plus) and the Crucial T500 as a gaming drive. I have always felt most comfortable in the Intel\Crucial\Micron\Solidigm ecosystem as they are all linked to Intel, who undoubtedly has the greatest track record of SSD reliability going back to the X25's.

They are never the "fastest" but people obsessed comparing Porsche's to Lamborghini's are just chasing numbers. The Hynix P44 and newest P51 would be an easy recommendation to anybody looking for a solid high-end drive.

I've personally been burned by Samsung too many times to count, going back to the 840 EVO (and OG 840) followed by the 860 EVO 1TB controller failures (and as my luck would have it, ONLY the 1TB had the MEX controller.) I would learn my final lesson with the 870 EVO, which, as my luck would once again have it, I received one of the "bad batch" drives and waited 2 months for Samsung to replace it due to supply shortages. Ever since I have just straight up avoided Samsung due to chronic firmware problems and overly complex RMA process. I realize Samsung is one of the largest suppliers of NAND in the world, but their SSD's themselves are pretty mid in quality. 99% of people have no issues, buy 1% do. And when you are the largest, 1% equals millions of customers.

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Albi-M@reddit

Hello, bought my 4TB P3 in may 2023, exactly two years ago. At the very beginning i had no heatsink on it, and during a very large copy (1.5 tbs of stuff) it reached a whooping 79 degrees celsius temperature. Since i got scared of it, i got a back up of that content. After 2 years during which ive been monitoring it constantly both with crucial executive, hwinfo64, crystaldiskinfo and hd sentinel, the drive seems fine at the moment. It had consistent firmware updates, momentum cache enabled and 10% overprovisioning. At the moment i have 15.5 TBW, and health dropped from 100% to 99% when i crossed the 14TBW mark fyi. I did install an nvme heatsink right after that huge temp spike that it got when i bought it 2 years ago. I never had any other issue at all, i checked it recently as well, no bad blocks.

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MaverickPT@reddit

Late to the party but this drive so fucking shit. It throttles heavily on READ heavy operations. Also grinds to a complete halt, and is significantly slower than spinning rust once you go through it's cache. It's cheap but unless you don't have an alternative, AVOID

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RyanbeLying@reddit

im building my first pc. what nvme ssd would you recommend?

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GreenHouseofHorror@reddit

is significantly slower than spinning rust once you go through it's cache

Hard doubt on this being slower than a mechanical drive. My internet connection is faster than a spinning drive.

Slower than other SSDs in its tier, sure.

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MaverickPT@reddit

check the sustained writes chart!

It really slows down to 100MB/s Modern HDDs do better than that

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GreenHouseofHorror@reddit

It really slows down to 100MB/s Modern HDDs do better than that

Oof, I stand corrected. That really does just get annhilated by the competition.

But to be clear, this isn't a real world problem for most use cases. It didn't hit in the tests above until something like 72Gb had been written sustained at full speed.

That's not going to happen very often - but it does mean a significant data migration might take considerably longer than planned.

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MaverickPT@reddit

If you like to mess around with Skyrim modlist you hit that way too frequently 😭

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Dunkaccino2000@reddit

Not quite the same but I have three Crucial P3 Plus drives in my PC, the oldest of which I've had for 15 months without issues. The cost was barely any more than the regular P3 but it adds PCIe 4.0 and faster max read and write speeds. I mostly use my PC for gaming and other fairly light uses and I've never had a problem with drive speed. If you are able to get a credit from Crucial that might be a better choice if you don't want to spend a ton more on a drive.

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Liquasa@reddit

maybe this is a late
but does the ssd still good?
im planning to buy the same ssd

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Mister_Opportunity@reddit

I had a similar problem with a laptop NVMe from Samsung. It started crashing after roughly one year of use. Since it was under warranty, they kept giving me the same brand SSDs, each failing after a year.
However, I have since replaced my laptop and am using the "failing" SSD as a boot drive on my desktop pc without issues. Something else could be causing the issues (compatibility, maybe the mobo connection, ...)

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Agile-Conversation-3@reddit

Mine 4tb P3 ssd was just not able to be recognized after 1 yr of purchase. Now, I'm going on the warranty process.

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Same-Strawberry3955@reddit

Been using mines for 2 years strong windows 10 pro and bunch of steam games no issues

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Synthiful@reddit

hey do you still use it? if not was it retired or did it break? im still in big doubt to whether buy it or not since there arent really any other cheap ssds in my area

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Same-Strawberry3955@reddit

Just now seeing this, yep still using it just updated to windows 11 last week

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bjsonic@reddit

Having the same issues across different drives (2x 4 TB, 1x 1 TB) but strangely with Intel HM770 chipset in AW m18 R2 only. Also appears when using external drive enclosure. Using other chipsets no problems at all. What chipsets have you been testing with what results?

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Kickin_Wing69@reddit

I doubt it's the drive causing bsod. I'm not saying impossible but I've never seen it after building dozens of PCs and having a drive failure or two myself. Corruption in your Windows install on the drive is MUCH more likely. Bad RAM can cause this among other things but a FRESH install of windows (not a copy of a possibly bad Windows install) would tell the tale pretty easily.

TLDR: You probably have bad RAM causing your Windows install to corrupt slowly

Edit: I have also used many Crucial drives. They are indeed great quality. Should last years easily

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