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You know what’s quite lovely if you can afford it? Having a truly massive hard drive orSSD. Back in the day, I was over the moon when I picked up a 750MB drive for my gaming PC - I could do a full install ofCivilization 2! And have room left over for X-Wing Alliance! These days, PC storage offersslightlylarger capacities, but the thrill of having a really giant drive remains as strong as ever.
That brings me to the subject of today’s deal post: the Crucial P3, a 4TB (!) NVMe drive capable of 3500MB/s sequential reads, is down to £299.99 at Amazon. That’s a £90 reduction from its usual price, and an incredible deal for one of the biggest NVMe SSDs on the market.
Get a 4TB Crucial P3 NVMe SSD for £299.99 (was £390)
Get a 2TB Crucial P3 NVMe SSD for £149.99 (was £184)
Get a 1TB Crucial P3 NVMe SSD for £74.99 (was £92)
Note that the 1TB and 2TB sizes are also discounted and cost the same £75 / TB.
As well as offering greater sequential speeds - and a high capacity to match - these drives also offer speed advantages when it comes to game loading times. This P3 is rated for 650K IOPS reads and 700K IOPS writes, which is around 70% the speed of the very fastest PCIe 4.0 drives - not bad for a PCIe 3.0 drive that is on the cheaper side of the spectrum due to its use of QLC NAND and an SLC rather than DRAM cache.
Of course, apart from its performance, this 4TB drive also has another important function: making you giggle when you look at My Computer and see 3.84TB of unclaimed SSD storage. What a feeling. I picked up a 4TB WD Blue SATA SSD when one was discounted last year, and Istillget unaccountably cheery when I see how much space is still left over - not having to carefully micromanage your storage is such a blessing.
