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Crucial P1 M.2 NVMe SSD 1TB and 500GB Review – Budget NVMe Is It Worth It?

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Crucial P1 M.2 NVME SSD CrystalDiskMark Benchmark Results

The CrystalDiskMark 6.0.1 is a very popular storage benchmark tool. It’s a disk benchmark software that measure sequential reads/writes speed, 4KB Q8T8, 4KB Q32T1 and 4KB Q1T1. Below are the results I got for the Crucial P1 1TB and 500GB capacities:

In this test we can see that both the Crucial P1 1TB capacity and 500GB capacity is just a few MB/s away from their respective advertised speeds. Normally, I don’t expect that these SSD would actually hit their advertised speeds. A few MB/s shy from the advertised speed is acceptable. It’s better if they actually meet or surpassed it. But it is totally unacceptable if the performance is far from the advertised speeds.

Crucial P1 M.2 NVME SSD ezIOmeter Benchmark Results

The ezIOmeter is an old benchmark utility released in 2015. It is a Windows-based client benchmark tool optimized for storage devices, including SAS, SATA, and NVMe* storage devices. ezIOmeter utilizes Iometer 1.1’s command line functionality to run industry trusted Iometer tests. IOmeter has an infamous reputation on being difficult to use. This is one solution to provide NVMe* testing capability while also being easy and fast to use. Below are the results I got for the Crucial P1 M.2 NVMe 1TB and 500GB capacities:

Crucial P1 M.2 NVMe SSD latest pricing and availability:
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