The P3 Plus may be one of Crucial’s more affordable NVME SSDs, thanks to its DRAM-less design, but as a PCIe 4.0 drive it’s one of their fastest too. Respective read and write speeds of 5000MB/s and 4200MB/s means it’s going to be a handy upgrade to any older solid state drives you have in your system, as well as a game-changing upgrade over any older mechanical hard drives. Random read and writes of 680K and 850K IOPS means it’ll also offer especially quick load times in games, too, if you wanted to run your Steam library from it, for instance. This places it just below the very fastest PCIe 4.0 SSDs, which tend to max out around the 1,000K IOPS mark. A 2TB capacity here means you’ve got oodles of space to play with, and the fact this drive comes with a DRAM cache means it’s also suitable for installing your OS on, although given the speeds on offer, the capacity may be better served as being a game drive. This drive will also work in the PS5 - it’s marginally slower than Sony’s 5500MB/s requirement, but in our testing even significantly slower drives performed identically to the fastest PS5 SSDs in the most demanding games released so far. However, you may want to add an inexpensive heatsink to ensure peak sustained performance. On the PC side of things, any motherboard released in the last three or four years (eg B550/X570 or Z590/H560 and later) should work with this drive at full speed, while older systems will work at reduced speeds.
