The Crucial P2 is a good worth NVMe SSD, and now the 2TB mannequin is all the way down to £117 at Amazon UK – an extremely low worth for a drive that may hit 2400MB/s. The 1TB mannequin has additionally been discounted in the identical sale, from £86 to £63, making it cheaper than many SATA SSDs of the identical measurement.

So why is the Crucial P2 price contemplating? Well, exterior of the worth – which is crazy-low, by the best way – the P2 is a genuinely respectable performer. Its sequential learn speeds (2400MB/s) are about 4.4 occasions quicker than even the very best SATA SSDs from the likes of Samsung and Kingston, and write speeds are about 3.4 occasions quicker (1900MB/s).

Its random I/O is much less aggressive, and Crucial annoyingly do not publish the precise IOPS figures for the 1TB and 2TB sizes – I’ve solely been capable of finding IOPS counts for the 250GB and 500GB fashions, the place efficiency was fairly common. That means that efficiency in duties like loading video games and booting working programs can be pretty modest, though you are unlikely to see worse outcomes than on a similarly-priced SATA drive.

More annoyingly, Crucial have swapped the unique TLC-based drive with one which makes use of QLC NAND, with out updating the product title. That means it is best to count on worse efficiency than indicated in our 2021 overview, particularly in sustained learn/write situations the place TLC NAND can outperform QLC extra noticeably. However, QLC does enable Crucial to make use of fewer chips to construct every drive, which in flip pushes the worth down – so it is seemingly that we would not see such deep reductions on TLC-based drives.

In any case, the Crucial P2 stays a good selection for lower-end laptops and desktops, and for speedy entry to massive information – assume 4K movies or disc ISOs. If that sounds useful to you, then this can be a nice drive! For your laptop’s essential drive the place your working system can be put in although, chances are you’ll want to go for one of many drives we have recognized as being the very best for gaming.

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