Crucial P3 Plus 1TB vs WD SN770 1TB

[Space Lynx]

both are on sale for $49 locally. brand new.

I do want to upgrade the 128gb drive that came with my work laptop.

Which is best? my work laptop is rocking a 7530u APU and 2x16gb ddr4 3200 dual rank ram for 32gb total.

this laptop is for work not gaming, so the drive probably doesn't matter... but @W1zzard doesn't have a review for the P3 Plus but it apparently has 840k IOPS... which is insane for that price... so I am conflicted on what to do.

FYI, my SN770 500gb m.2 screws stripped, so I can't get the heatsink off of it... so I am just going to repurpose it as a dedicated Linux drive.

 

[ir_cow]

Don't buy the P3 Plus 1TB. I have it, once you pass about 25GB (in one transfer) writes go down to 9MB/s.

 

[Space Lynx]

Don't buy the P3 Plus 1TB. I have it, once you pass about 25GB (in one transfer) writes go down to 9MB/s.

Sn770 it is, thanks mate. i have been very happy with my "snappiness" of the 500gb version, and the 1tb version being so cheap now, makes sense i stick with this line. as W1zz said in his review of the SN770 its like magic... and I like that in a review LOL

 

[ir_cow]

If you aren't planning on dong big transfers its fine (P3). I use it daily, but copying 600GB took a entire day of copying chunks below 30GB, waiting 15 minutes for the cache to clear and repeat. The WD SN750 took 10 minutes in one copy.

 

[Space Lynx]

If you aren't planning on dong big transfers its fine. I use it daily, but copying 600GB took a entire day of copying chunks below 30GB, waiting 15 minutes for the cache to clear and repeat. The WD SN750 took 10 minutes in one copy.

and the SN770 should be better than than the SN750, and yeah I might transfer big files from time to time. I will be using Win 11 for work most likely. I might go to Linux someday, but I don't think Linux supports the new tech that is in the SN770, not sure what its called. I know the PS5 can't make use of this new tech that is in the SN770 that causes the "magic" as W1zz calls it. so I doubt Linux can either. which means if I go with SN770 I am stuck with Win 11, but honestly since this laptop is just for work, I am ok with that.

still can't believe a drive of this quality is only for $49 these days. wild times in the nvme world.

 

[chrcoluk]

WD Black SN770 1 TB Review - So Impressive

The competitively priced Western Digital WD Black SN770 achieves impressive performance results that match the more expensive Samsung 980 Pro, WD Black SN850, and Kingston KC3000. It seems WD has found a solution to overcome the limitations of DRAM-less designs—very impressive.

www.techpowerup.com

Not a fan of dramless but the sn770 is crazy cheap for a 2tb version.

 

[GerKNG]

i have two P3s which are the identical SSD with a Gen 3 connection.
NEVER buy DRAM Less QLC or QLC in general...
you will copy 1TB, 60GB at around 1.3GB/s and then you drop to SD Card territory (the 2TB can do ~80MB/s, the 1TB around 70-75MB/s).
Even the MX500 SATA SSD is 5x faster and that's from start to finish.

 

[Arco]

Sn770, awesome storage.

 

[ArdWar]

NEVER buy DRAM Less QLC or QLC in general...

I don't think being DRAM less is the main problem here. Sounds like the typical QLC problem compounded by outstandingly horrible cache management.

I mean, how do you even need to wait for 15 minutes to flush...