Crucial P1 M.2 CT500P1SSD8 500 GB

Comparatively affordable 512GB M.2 SSD with QLC High Capacity Flash. Made in the standard M.2 2280 form factor, it is compact, economical and fully compatible with all models of motherboards equipped with an M.2 port supporting PCI-E 3.0 x4. The manufacturer is positioned as an affordable model of the middle price category, designed to complete personal computers, miniPCs, HTPC systems and laptops of various levels and purposes.

It can be a useful component for gaming and workstations (in scenarios of use with a low intensity of write operations). The hardware basis of the Crucial P1 M.2 CT500P1SSD8 SSD is the SM2263EN controller (a simplified version of the top-end SM2262 chipset). It works with Micron's 64-layer QLC 3D NAND Flash, which has 33% more capacity than TLC. As a result, the SSD demonstrates decent I/O performance (220/90K IOPS), decent sequential read/write speed (1900/950 Mbps within the SLC buffer) and moderate random access latency. The guaranteed write resource may seem small (100 TB), but it allows you to write more than 26 GB of data daily for 10 years, which is more than enough for active home use.