Crucial P5 2TB 3D NAND NVMe Internal Gaming SSD, up to 3400MB/s - CT2000P5SSD8

I was nearly out of storage on my Samsung 980 Pro that I use for my boot drive and programs, and wanted to download more games. I came looking for an M.2 NVME drive that was 2TB since I only have one more M.2 slot on my motherboard. Given that all I was doing is gaming, there was no need to spend the money on a PCIe 4.0 drive when a 3.0 is plenty fast for gaming. Plus, at a price of $195, there was no other option. So far the drive has been great. It was instantly recognized by my BIOS and I had no issues formatting the drive. I have now moved all of my Steam, Epic Games, and Origin libraries to this drive, and still have 1.6 TB to go. Very pleased with this SSD.

I used this drive to swap out the blade SSD in a 2017 27” iMac, used with an adapter for the stock iMac port on the logic board. Using the BlackMagic disk speed test I’m getting speeds between 2500-2800 read/write. Performance is as I expected. No concerns at all with formatting the drive or getting started with it in this setting. no sleep/wake issues in the iMac. Very happy overall.

I have only had the issue of Windows Explorer restarting and not being able to use mouse pad or keyboard shortcut to shut down laptop twice. Ever since the second time it happened I have not had the problem again. I am studying to be an IT Technician in College and have a bit of technical experience with laptops and desktops over the years. I would recommend this to others. If you are following the same type of path I am then it will be easy for you to install as well. Just make sure you use Acronis software to clone your hard drive after you install it in a laptop or desktop. You can use a USB to connect you old hard drive to clone it. I would also like to mention dont use easeuse software because it will damage your new hard drive.

I use this plainly just for more reliable storage and it does exactly what I expect it to do. There is nothing wrong with this product, remember to initiate the drive in Windows with Disk Manager to assign the SSD a drive letter and such.

Purchased this 2TB upgrade for my Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon (6th Gen). Cloned my existing drive as is using Acronis then installed in computer. The Lenovo diagnostic and repair utility started automatically, then selecting the advanced options I was able to select the new drive as the primary boot device. After that everything worked fine. I didnt really expect much except increased capacity given the problems Intel has been having with chipset fixes through Microsoft updates, but in fact the increased speed over my original P2 is easy to see. Displays are more snappy, software loading is faster, software controls are more crisp. Overall, a great product!

I ordered 1TB version of the SSD back in March 2021. I has been several months now, Ive been extensively using and sometimes utilizing every gigabyte of the SSD :D (of course I leave about 20% empty in order to get the best of it) I havent met any problems since I received it. I recommend to anyone who wants to buy but keeps thinking about disadvantages as I was back in March

This thing rocked the motherboard, it was fast. I just had it in my cart and my family member went ahead and bought it, so I gave it a try while putting in return order. But from the small amount of time I had with the Crucial P5 250GB 3D NAND NVMe Internal SSD, up to 3400MB/s - CT250P5SSD8 (adding that so they dont steal the review) I was super impressed with how fast it loaded FFXIV, The Division 2, Tom Clancys Breakpoint, and Fortnite.

The installation was easier than I expected, but I was not able to get the downloadable Acronis True Image software for Crucial to recognize the new drive while I was cloning the old SSD to the Crucial (I was using the Crucial in an external sidecar enclosure). I downloaded a freeware cloning software package that took care of that problem. Other than that, its currently in my Dell XPS 8920 and performing without any problems.

Has been working well with no issues so far.

Although I have been running SSD only computers for a while, they have always been the standard SATA SSDs, limited to about 550MB/sec transfer rate, which is already very fast when compared to even the fastest SATA HDs. However after researching and watching many review videos, I decided to give the Crucial P5 a shot, and I am extremely glad I did! As you can see in the two uploaded screenshots I have provided, my SATA SSD, (a Crucial MX500 1TB) reads at about 562 MB/sec and writes at about 517 MB/sec. However when running that same test on the Crucial P5 NVME SSD, the read speeds are around 3500 MB/sec and write speed is around 3200 MB/sec! The speed increase is off the charts! I am very happy with my purchase!