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

Posted by deleted_by_reddit@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 5 comments

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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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?

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

AccomplishedFold8101@reddit

so is it safe to use Crucial - P3 Plus 1TB Gen 4 x4 NVMe for OS in new PC build?

FinnGames666@reddit

Idk I might be doing something wrong but I've lost two 1tbs now, the one I lost today had 600 of my videos on it

Yes