Page 10 - Conclusion
It is pretty crazy how we have 4TB SSDs the size of a gum stick today. Back in June 2014, I reviewed the Western Digital Red WD40EFRX 4TB, which is a 3.5" SATA hard drive that can pull at most 160MB/s for $180 at the time of that review. Fast forward almost nine years, the Crucial P3 Plus offers the same capacity for only $225 at press time, which, adjusted for inflation, makes this NVMe SSD actually $3.74 cheaper in 2023 dollars. Yet the Crucial P3 Plus 4TB delivered over 5000MB/s in our tests. These stats would have been simply unfathomable in 2014. So what is the tradeoff? As it turns out, there is not a lot. Its performance is almost identical to the Crucial P3 Plus 1TB I reviewed a few months back, which means it is highly optimized for simple synthetic tests, but comes in near the bottom compared to other PCIe 4.0-based NVMe SSDs in real-life simulations. As I said in the 1TB variant's review, this is not necessarily a bad place to be, because it is still better than pretty much any PCIe 3.0-based drive, meaning this budget DRAM-less solid state drive's performance is still pretty good. What you will need to pay attention to is the Crucial P3 Plus 4TB has even lower write endurance relative to its capacity than the 1TB model at 800TBW, which is only 438GB per day for five years. I have seen 1TB drives with better write endurance, but if you are someone who is looking to only use this product for storing data that does not change much on a day-to-day basis, there is not a whole lot to lose. This drive is still backed by a 5-year warranty should anything else go wrong. With its massive capacity, very reasonable performance, and a relatively affordable price, the Crucial P3 Plus 4TB is no doubt a solid pick for your next SSD.
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The Crucial P3 Plus 4TB offers impressive capacity and decent performance for a budget DRAM-less PCIe 4.0-based NVMe SSD at a very reasonable price.
Page Index
1. Introduction, Packaging, Specifications
2. A Closer Look, Test System
3. Benchmark: AIDA64 Disk Benchmark
4. Benchmark: ATTO Disk Benchmark
5. Benchmark: Crystal Disk Mark 8.0
6. Benchmark: HD Tune Pro 5.70
7. Benchmark: PassMark PerformanceTest 10
8. Benchmark: PCMark 10
9. Benchmark: 3DMark
10. Conclusion
