Crucial NVMe

[drescherjm]

I just got an email announcing a Crucial NVMe drive.

http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/ct500p1ssd8

 

[likeman]

its QLC nand so not much special about it (performs more like a SATA SSD just a bit faster)

 

[drescherjm]

I did not know it was QLC. They were not very detailed on the specifications.

 

[Dreamerbydesign]

1900 mb/s read is not like a sata 3...

 

[Randall Stephens]

I thought QLC was supposed to usher in lower prices. This seems not to do that, or am I missing something?

 

[drescherjm]

1900 mb/s read is not like a sata 3...

It's a bit slower than other current gen TLC NVMe drives as far as sequential reads and writes are concerned.

 

[drescherjm]

I thought QLC was supposed to usher in lower prices. This seems not to do that, or am I missing something?

Maybe they did not expect NVMe drives to come down in price as much as they have recently.

 

[tedych]

This 1900 may be just the cache, in fact it's almost for sure. The very QLC is slower than a 5 year HDD (in sequential).
With prices, performance goes down as well. They (manufacturers in general) compensate to some degree with somehow improved caching and algorithms but...

 

[Dermen]

It was reported that QLC yields were around 50%, making QLC currently more expensive to make than TLC. It should get better though.

 

[likeman]

1900 mb/s read is not like a sata 3...

sequential speed is not everything, it performs very close to a MX500

not that i like T website its here https://www.tomshardware.co.uk/crucial-p1-nvme-ssd-qlc,review-34592-2.html