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Is the Crucial P1 a realiable SSD?

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1 minute ago, Nexolas said:

the A2000 is basically the same price as the P1

Then I'd go for that instead.

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I was going to buy a system but NVMe SSDs are fairly expensive, I came accross the Crucial P1 and I am planning to buy the 500GB version, anyone have any problems while using this SSD?

 

edit: should I get the P2 instead?

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How much can you get a Kingston A2000 for?

The P2 is worse.

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the p1 is a qlc drive, while it's decent in some aspects. for a causal user, i wouldn't get it.

what about an a2000?

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9 minutes ago, Mateyyy said:

How much can you get a Kingston A2000 for?

The P2 is worse.

the A2000 is basically the same price as the P1

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Just now, schwellmo92 said:

It is good as long as you don't use it for your system drive.

Why?

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1 minute ago, Nexolas said:

the A2000 is basically the same price as the P1

Then I'd go for that instead.

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6 minutes ago, Nexolas said:

Why?

It's a QLC drive they have lesser write life span and the caches once exceeded drops performance to regular HDD speeds.

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1 minute ago, schwellmo92 said:

It's a QLC drive they have lesser write life span and the caches once exceeded drops performance to regular HDD speeds.

guess I'll get a a2000 instead

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3 minutes ago, Nexolas said:

guess I'll get a a2000 instead

A2000 is much better drive.

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