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Crucial’s P5 Plus NVMe SSD is down to £91 at Amazon UKA good price for one of the best value PCIe 4.0 drives.
A good price for one of the best value PCIe 4.0 drives.
The Crucial P5 Plus is one of those drives that turn up in these deals articles a lot. That’s because it’s designed to undercut the likes of the WD SN850, Seagate Firecuda 530 and Samsung 980 Pro, offering slightly slower sequential speeds at a lower price point. That tradeoff is one that I’d make in almost every situation, as you’ll definitely notice the extra money in your wallet more than you’ll notice a fractional difference in game load times!
The P5 Plus’s 1TB model is the one discounted today, with a drop to £90.86 - that’s the lowest price we’ve ever recorded for this model and a good value for a high-end SSD suitable for PC and PS5.
Get the Crucial P5 Plus 1TB for £91 (was £126)
We’ve covered this drive a few times so I’ll quickly run through the specs, but the main thing is that you’re getting a significantly faster drive than the first PCIe 4.0 models released, but just a tiny bit behind the very fastest ‘second-gen’ PCIe 4.0 designs. That means maximum sequential reads of 6600MB/s and writes of 5000MB/s.
As usual, you’ll need to have a PCIe 4.0 compatible laptop or desktop motherboard to use this drive at its full speed. That includes most models released within the past three years; on the desktop side of things, you’ll be looking mostly at Z590 and H560 (Intel) and their successors, or X570 and B550 (AMD) and their successors. (There are also a handful of Z490 boards that support PCIe 4.0 with the right CPU installed; as always, Google is your friend here.)
All things considered, the P5 Plus is a great shout for PC (or even PS5, although you may want toadd a heatsinkto meet Sony’s recommendations).
