Hi, x,
And I'm quite happy with it these days, as well. I haven't had overheating issues with it since the firmware upgrade that I performed using the Crucial Storage Executive software. I have the drive in a Lenovo P52 laptop. The laptop has 64 GB of RAM and another 500 GB SSD, so there are...
Hi, Maxx,
I greatly appreciate the insights! I bought the P1 because it was the cheapest drive around, and I got what I paid for ;-). If I had searched out forums such as this one before I bought, I certainly would have been able to make a better-informed decision! Fortunately for me, the...
I've found the Storage Executive software to be very useful. The primary benefit to me was it provided the ability to apply a firmware update to my 1TB P1 drive which enabled me to effectively use the drive to manage large files. Before the firmware update was applied, the P1 would throttle...
Hi, folks,
I had similar experiences with the P1 when I first bought it. I was quite frustrated with its performance. I use very large virtual images -- up to 250 GB in size -- and I was shocked with the inability of the P1 to either copy those images to another drive effectively or have one...