Crucial P1 1TB 3D NAND Nvme PCIe M.2 SSD - CT1000P1SSD8

So this is for an Acer Predator Helios 300... ( PH315-5178NP to be precise) The genius crew over at Acer didn't include a maintenance panel on the back for the system hard drive, only one for the RAM and one for the 2.5" drive bay. When I bought this drive, I mistakenly thought there was an nvme m.2 expansion slot to add another drive. Wrong. So I had to replace my system drive with this drive, and to do that I had to jump through a few hoops. Including removing the entire back panel from the laptop to access the m.2 hdd slot. So here's the adventure I went on: Bought this m.2 (M-keyed) pciex4 nvme 1Tb drive. Realized there was no expansion slot. Looked into the included 'Acronis True Image' and it requires at least one of the drives in the imaging pair to be a Crucial drive. Ordered a Crucial 1Tb 2.5" MX500 ssd. When that arrived: Cloned my original 256G non-Crucial branded m.2 drive over to the new 2.5" ssd. Removed the original m.2 drive, and put this new Crucial m.2 1Tb drive in place. Cloned the 2.5" MX500 ssd to this new m.2 1Tb drive. Removed the 2.5" MS500 ssd and booted Windows off this Crucial m.2 1Tb drive. Added the 2.5" drive back to the system, formatted it. So now my system drive is this Crucial m.2 1Tb drive, with the Crucial MX500 1Tb 2.5" ssd as the expansion drive. Now it's got 2Tb of storage, and the main drive is clocking read speeds at the 2k mark. Went from 256G total storage to 2Tb of total storage, and a big improvement in speed. Now this laptop is a legit gaming rig and I can install several big AAA title games without the fear of running out of storage space. This crucial drive is running Windows very quickly, all Windows-related tasks are accomplished instantly. Very impressed with the performance/value. The Crucial Acronis True Image software is very good. Perfect at cloning the original drive multiple times with no issue, and perfect for 'cleansing' the storage drive. Very pleased overall with this purchase.

A little context: I'm commercial photographer and videographer and have been using G-Technology G-Drives for the better part of 10 years. I shoot tethered to, work directly off of, and backup to these drives. So needless to say, external hard drives are an integral part of my workflow. I've been researching SSD drives for some time now but have been waiting for the price/GB to come down. I've had my eye on this Crucial 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD for probably the past 6 months. I saw the price dip to $95 and decided to pull the trigger. And oh my god am I glad I did. Using Blackmagic's Speed Test I measured both my 2TB 7,200RPM G-Drive and this 1TB NVMe SSD. My G-Drive came in at an average of 108 MB/s with USB-A 3.0, which I've been used to for some time. I was completely astounded when I saw that my new Crucial 1TB NVMe SSD was getting 9x's better (!!!!!) read/write speeds at an average of 932 MB/s with USB-C. With USB-A to USB-C it was averaging around 460 MB/s. Which is still insane compared to my now dinosaur of a G-Drive. I paired this with the Sabrent USB 3.1 NVMe M.2 SSD Aluminum enclosure (https://amzn.to/35yLsi0) and could not be happier with the results. I wish this drive came in a 2TB+ option as I would likely pick up several of them. But this is an incredible step for me in the transition towards an all-SSD workflow. I'm including a screenshot of the Speedtest and photo of the the drive in the Sabrent enclosure for size context. SOME NOTES • It's very small, only a little bigger than a stick of gum. • Installation in an external NVMe M.2 enclosure is extremely simple. • Being a Mac user you will have to reformat this drive for it to work with your system (which I would recommend you do with any external hard drive anyway). • The speed is outrageous. • Only time will tell the longevity and performance of the drive as I've only been testing it for several days. For the price and performance, I would highly recommend buying this drive.

I installed this into my gaming machine. I already had a 1TB crucial SSD in it with my OS and games on it. Being a huge tech nerd, I just had to fill my M.2 socket, and when this went on sale, it had to be mine. I proceeded to migrate my Steam games over to it. I have yet to play any games off of it as I am renovating my kitchen, but while I was working hard, my PC was not because it took all the data I needed to copy over and did it fast. I don't have real world numbers for you, but it is noticeably fast. I copied a 10GB movie from my regular SSD to the M.2 and Windows 10 told me I was getting 370MB/s. In comparison, when I did the same copy to my other drive, which is spinning disk from a laptop I replaced a year ago, I was getting 35MB/s. So solid state does make a huge difference. Also since this M.2 drive is so tiny, it doesn't make any extra heat. If it does, my PC doesn't register it. Great price, decent size storage, dang fast. Buy it.

I wasn't expecting much from this drive, I already had a Samsung 860 Evo SATA SSD in my laptop, however the 500GB capacity was getting a bit tight. I opted for the 1TB model on Prime Day for a steal at $80. It arrived next day, and the installation was cake (if you can insert a stick of RAM, you can install an M.2 drive. After getting everything installed, cloned, and the boot order modified, the drive was performing about the same as my old SATA SSD on first boot. After installing the requisite Corsair Storage Executive software and making a few tweaks there, the SSD started to really wake up. I can boot to the login screen on my laptop in about 2 seconds after POST. After login, everything is ready to go. Chrome launches instantly, Steam updates in a matter of seconds, and everything is near instant. The drive is rated at about 2000MB/s read and 1700MB/s write. Imagine my surprise when Crystal Disk Mark put up an ABSOLUTELY BLAZING 4150+MB/s READ AND WRITE. I was questioning whether or not I was sent the drive I ordered. I reran the test a few more times, and similar numbers came up every time. My 970 Evo NVMe drive in my desktop puts up closer to 3200MB/s, which is still very extremely fast compared to anything on the SATA bus (SATA SSDs normally have about a 550MB/s cap). Games launch as you would expect for a drive of this speed. Tomb Raider I (1996) and Tomb Raider II (1997), even with DOSbox emulation, are fast and fluid. The 1050 in my laptop doesn't break a sweat on those. The Talos Principle, with everything cranked to the max, only blinks the load screen for a moment before you're in. I don't even remember what the load screens looks like in Portal 2. The recent Tomb Raider games (2013+) load so fast, you can't read the load screen tips, normally only reading the first few words before you're back in the action. I will say the Samsung software is a little bit better in terms of overall UI and function (Corsair does not offer a self-contained firmware update, you must download the firmware separately and point the software to the downloaded file), however you're not spending any time in there anyway once the Over Provisioning cache is set up and a few other performance related check boxes. So your options right now are the following: • Spend twice as much for a Samsung SSD and get slower speeds • Spend less than $100, get 1TB of space, and blow away other, more expensive drives by at least 25% This drive will not disappoint!

I bought this to replace the 256GB NVME SSD that my Lenovo laptop came with. Actual physical installation is a breeze, as expected. The real challenge was in getting everything running and happy. I opted to start with a fresh Windows 10 installation instead of trying to clone the old drive over. Absolutely zero issues there. The drive was recognized just fine, and Windows installed without a hitch. Other complaints of the drive overheating and stalling out have been unfounded for me at least, as I transferred tens of gigabytes of stuff from the old drive via a USB enclosure. I haven't done any proper benchmarking on the performance, as I'm more concerned with real-world experience, and so far this drive does not disappoint. I do recommend installing the Crucial Storage Executive application which can give you some good information on your drive and enable the momentum cache feature for more performance. I also opted to reserve 10% of the drive via over provisioning, so mine shows as being an 837 GB drive instead of 9 hundred something as it normally would. This gives a portion of the drive over to the controller to improve drive life and performance. I'll be keeping an eye on things for a while, but so far I'm very happy with it, and for the price I am absolutely satisfied with this purchase.

This is a fast drive and great bang for the buck. To get this to go really fast, I had to take an extra step. I bought this to replace my SATA M.2 boot drive on my Dell 5570. I am not an IT professional, I would say I know more than the average bear, but not near at technically advanced as some other reviews you may see here. In the world of hardware, I have swapped out RAM, changed SATA III drive from HDD to SSD, stuff like that. I will take some time to explain my install process for those similar to me. Before I start. BACKUP your data. BACKUP your data. BACKUP your data. ***DISCLAIMER*** I am not a professional and am not telling you what to do or offering advice, I am just passing on my experience with this product. 1. I used a tool on the Crucial website to scan my system to confirm what drives would work on my system/motherboard. I already knew I had an M.2 port, but I wasn't sure if i could go from SATA to PCIe. The tool gave me a list of what would work and I just copied the part # and search for it on Amazon. 2. Along with the SSD, I also bought an enclosure/adapter to put the new Crucial drive in to write the clone to from the boot drive (C:). After a bit a looking around I was sure to buy one for PCIe and not SATA, they are not interchangeable. 3. To clone my boot drive (C:) to this new Crucial drive, I used a free version of Marcium Reflect. I just google it and watch some YouTube videos to learn how to use this particular software. I have used cloning software before, but each one is a little different, so I just wanted to make sure I had all my ducks in a row. 4. Once the clone was done. I popped the back cover off my laptop and swapped out my old SATA M.2 SSD with this new Crucial PCIe M.2 drive. The only difference between this and swapping RAM is that there is a retaining screw on the M.2 port. 5. When I tried to reboot my machine I for an error from my BIOS saying there was no BOOT DRIVE CONFIGURATION. 6. I rebooted the computer again and pressed F2 while booting to enter the BIOS (this will vary based on PC manf.) 7. I went to BOOT MANAGER and added a path to the new drive. Having never had to do this, I just look at the path of the old drive and use the same path on the new drive. 8. Rebooted and windows loaded with no problems. 9. Ran a speed test using the free software CrystalDiskMark. The results are the first pic with the top speed of 1523.22. While this was a major improvement over my SATA, I still thought there was some more speed out there. After a little research I found that Crucial has propitiatory software Storage Executive that will optimize the drive. 10. Once I had Storage Executive installed, I opened it up and was underwhelmed. The option in the software that speeds thing up is called Momentum Cache. I soon realized the software did't recognize that I had a Crucial brand SSD mounted to the motherboard. So I had to do some more research and found that I had to change the BOIS from RAID to AHCI. 11. I google RAID to AHCI and read a couple of posts, super easy. While doing my research on why it wan't being recognized, I found a post on Crucial's website that made it sound complicated ---- WRONG, it was easy. 12. Once I changed from RAID to AHCI, I rebooted the machine again. I let it run through all it's startup processes then ran CrystalDiskMark again and got the results in the second pic wit the top speed of 5231.59. I hope this helps some folks out there.

This was the cheapest NVME drive I could find, and overall it is a good buy. Crucial is a known brand, and I used to have memory from this maker, so I thought that the quality would be at least as good as Samsung; and in part this is true. Performances so far, show that while it does not hit the peak of other NVME that cost twice as much, it is still quite fast, compared to regular SSD M2, running on SATA3. NVME protocol is used to boost performances and you can tell the difference. Just some numbers: my internal M2 SATA3 drive read at 521MB/s and write at 480 MB/s; while the internal SATA3 Samsung drive read and write at 530 MB/s. This NVME read at 1798 MB/s and write at 1020 MB/s; so as you can see; the speed is noticeable in both read and write. If you use this drive for activities that involve fast loading, like video editing, gaming or 3d ; it is a really good buy; but if you plan to use it as everyday drive to run your productivity apps, or as backup, or to move often, small files, then you won't see much improvement. For example for smaller files, the faster one was the SATA3 Samsung, with speed that was consistently higher than both the NVME and M2 drives in writing; sometimes 10-15% faster, just to give you an idea SSD are not made for backups, nor for moving small files or for productivity in general; at least you don't need NVME for this; because such usage short the lifespan of your SSD; but if you move large files and need a high data transfer rate, then this is the memory for you. Granted, Samsung cost more for a reason; although this drive is fast enough, compard to your regular SATA3 M2 drive or regular SSD; to make a world of difference

I installed this 1TB SSD in my late 2013 MacBook Pro. The write speed increased from 630MB/s to 1230 MB/s and the read speed from 670MB/s to 1450MB/s (Blackmagic and Aja speed tests average). I used the Sintech NGFF M.2 nVME adaptor. I didn't have any problems with the SSD or the adaptor but had a lot of trouble during the install: The screw that holds the original SSD was so tight that I could have easily stripped the T5 slot by forcing it with the screwdriver, but eventually it came out. I fitted the Crucial SSD and erased and formatted it then tried to install Mojave using my USB flashdrive installer but had an error saying that is was corrupted and could not be used (even though it was fine previously). So I tried to install Mojave over WiFi and got an error saying couldn't connect to the server (even though I was definitely logged in to my WiFi). Then the Crucial SSD disappeared and could not be located with Disc Utility. Fortunately I had a bootable backup of my entire MacBook Pro on an external SSD, so I booted up from this. Carbon Copy Cloner was able to recognise the Crucial SSD and I was able to make a bootable clone onto it. Unfortunately this was an earlier version Mojave, apps and files but I dared not fiddle about and risk the SSD becoming invisible again, so I just cloned everything. The SSD was now installed which was a relief. I then did a complete Time Machine recovery to reinstall everything to how it used to be before upgrading. From start to finish it took about 7.5 hours - about 2.5 hours trying to resolve the problems, and 5 hours waiting for the cloning and TM recovery. For most people the SSD upgrade will be a piece of cake, so I'm sharing this as you might want to be prepared if things don't go quite as planned. I don't think these installation problems had anything to do with either the Crucial SSD or the Sintech adaptor which are working perfectly, and the tremendous speed increase is certainly very noticeable when using Capture One Pro and Photoshop, etc.