Product Specifications and Photos
| Product Specifications | |
|---|---|
| Form Factor | M.2 Type 2280 |
| Total Capacity | 1000GB |
| Warranty | Limited 5-year |
| Specs | 1TB M.2 SSD • PCIe NVMe Gen 3 • 2,000 MB/s Read, 1,700 MB/s Write |
| Series | P1 |
| Product Line | Client SSD |
| Interface | NVMe/PCIe Gen3 x4 |
| Device Type | Internal Solid State Drive |
| Unit Height | 22mm x 80mm |
| Form Factor | M.2 |
| Package Content | M.2 SSD PCIe NVMe Gen 3, Acronis® True Image™ for Crucial cloning software and installation instructions |
The P1 SSD is based on the latest, QLC 3D NAND from Micron. On the PCB we will find only Micron chips. It’s actually expected as Crucial is a brand of Micron. Even though some users see QLC NAND as something bad then new technology gives it about as high endurance as previous TLC series. It’s also cheaper in production and we can expect the P1 SSD to be inexpensive, yet fast option for gamers and all other users who need high-performance storage.
Crucial P1 NVMe SSD is rated at up to 2GB/s read and 1.7GB/s write. It’s more than enough for most users. Sequential bandwidth is also not the most important as most operations on modern systems are actually random so we should focus more on the random read which affects home and office applications the most.
Crucial Storage Executive is a really handy software which works with all Crucial SSD. A big part of functionality works also on other brands SSD so if we have a couple of SSD then we can check their health using only this one software.
As we can see, our drive is in perfect health. About the same results in SMART reading are in Storage Executive and CrystalDiskInfo.
The drive arrived in a retail package which is a small box. Inside we won’t find much but really not much is required. Crucial is adding a short manual and Acronis HD license so we can clone our old operating system and easily move to faster drive.
As all M.2 NVMe drives, also the P1 is really small and there is not much to describe besides what you can already read in the drive’s specification.
Drive’s PCB is black so it should match most PC builds. Nothing really important but I know that some users care even about things like PCB color, especially when there is no additional M.2 socket heatsink which would cover the drive.
The P1 SSD looks really clean and reminds me professional SSD series. Like all Crucial products, also this drive is top quality.
There is one thing worth to mention. I’ve seen that in some reviews the P1 was throttling under high load as temperature could be high. In our tests, there were no issues like that. The drive was going up to about 70°C what was below throttling point. Looks like a lot depends on the M.2 socket localization and if additional devices are heating up the air next to the SSD. If the motherboard has an additional heatsink for M.2 SSD then for sure there won’t be any issues. On ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming ITX motherboard with the mentioned heatsink, drive’s maximum temperature was about 55°C.
