Wednesday, April 8th 2020
Crucial P2 Announced: Company's Second QLC M.2 NVMe Client SSD
Here's the first picture of the Crucial P2, the company's second M.2 NVMe client SSD series based on QLC NAND flash memory, and successor to the Crucial P1. The drive sticks to PCI-Express gen 3.0 x4 as its host interface, but increases sequential read speeds over the P1. Available in 250 GB and 500 GB models to begin with, the P2 offers sequential transfer rates of up to 2100 MB/s reads with up to 1150 MB/s writes for the 250 GB variant; and up to 2300 MB/s reads with up to 940 MB/s writes on the 500 GB variant. There's no word on whether the P2 uses the same QLC NAND chips as the P1, but we do spy a DRAM cache chip. Endurance of the P2 is rated at 150 TBW, and Crucial is backing them with 5-year warranties when they come out in the near future. Pricing in Europe is expected to be about 59€ for the 250 GB model, and 70€ for the 500 GB one.
Update 15:54 UTC: Crucial launched the drive Stateside at $54.99 for the 250 GB model, and $64.99 for the 500 GB model. We've added more images.
Update 15:54 UTC: Crucial launched the drive Stateside at $54.99 for the 250 GB model, and $64.99 for the 500 GB model. We've added more images.
17 Comments on Crucial P2 Announced: Company's Second QLC M.2 NVMe Client SSD
Looks like the Kingston A2000 and Intel 660p series might get some competition.
Guess what that makes the 665p
:)
The 660p has DRAM cache iirc, while the P1 does not.Update: Was wrong, actually the P1 has more DRAM cache then the 660p.
Personnally, I can find the P1 1TB for 168$ right now, which is 20$ less than a 660p or 30$ less than a A2000. The only one that I see that cost 10$ less is the WD Blue SN550. note the P1 is 1yo 1/2 old.
Here in Hungary 1TB P1 and 660p are basically price identical, depending on etailer they have like a 5$ price gap forth and back.
However if you are looking around the 480-512GB segment the prices are much closer and for like 3$ more I can get an A2000 over here, not sure about the States tho.
The only reasonable choices I see for laptops right now are the Intel 660p 2TB, WD Blue 2TB and Samsung QVO 2TB or 4TB.
I would LOVE to see Crucial 2TB and 4TB models to compete with Samsung.Intel 660p 2TB is what I'd be buying right now if I didn't already have my Gaming laptops sitting with a total of 4TB.
I'd rather spend $220 for 2TB than save a couple bucks for a 1TB.
I'm sure Scotty from Marketing has it all worked out, consumer buys a small capacity NVMe for their "gaming" laptop, then realises they need more space.
Here comes the upsell, they probably also, and very conveniently sell external storage solutions. Kaching $$$$$
Source: www.anandtech.com/show/9248/the-truth-about-ssd-data-retentionThat would be the controller. Most of them are rated to function at might higher temperatures, so don't worry about it. If nothing else, the controller will thermal throttle if it gets too hot.
How many times do you write 100GB+ all at once at full speed to your SSD?