Enter to the world of Crucial's PCIe 3.0 NVMe SSDs. These drives harness the incredible speed and reliability of PCIe Gen 3 NVMe technology, offering the ideal solution for those seeking to elevate their storage performance. Whether you're a gamer, creative professional, or simply looking to supercharge your system, explore Crucial's PCIe 3.0 NVMe SSDs range including the Crucial P3.
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Basic bootup speeds won’t cut it — not at work, on the go, or in the game. But the Crucial Gen 3 is anything but basic. With NVMe performance that’s nearly 6x faster than SATA1 and storage capacities up to 4TB2, the P3 leaves older storage technology in the dust. Get faster bootups, downloads and file transfers, and store all your files, photos, videos, apps, and games with room to spare with the quality and dependability you expect from Crucial.
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PCIe NVMe Gen 3 operates at speeds of 8 GT/s or 8 gigatransfers per second. This is a speed of around 3,500 MB/s of read and write speeds. This is suitable for everyday and offce use. For high gaming bandwidths you may prefer a PCIe Gen 4 which operates at faster speeds.
1SSD speed comparison between published Crucial P3 NVMe SSD read/write speeds up to 3500/3000MB/s and published Crucial MX500 SATA SSD read/write speeds of 560/510MB/s; SSD vs. HDD speed comparisons between published Crucial P3 NVMe SSD read/write speeds of up to 3500/3000MB/s and top preset consumer hard disk drive read/write speeds of 7200RPM (~156MB/s).
2Some of the storage capacity is used for formatting and other purposes and is not available for data storage. 1GB equals 1 billion bytes. Not all capacities available at initial launch.