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Get the 1TB Crucial P5 NVMe SSD with a free heatsink for £80It equals our best SSD deal of last week.
It equals our best SSD deal of last week.
The Crucial P5 is a solid PCIe 3.0 NVMe SSD with strong enough performance to be used as your primary OS drive, and today it’s been discounted to just £80 at Scan - with a free Akasa M.2 NVMe SSD heatsink. That’s an absolute bargain, so let us tell you all about it!
Get the Crucial P5 1TB with free heatsink for £80 (was £116)
First, the deal itself. The cheapest we’ve ever seen the Crucial P5 before now is £75, a price we spotted on Amazonlast weekand has since expired. The fact you get a free Akasa heatsink worth £5 for £80 means that this deal is just as good, in my eyes, especially as it meshes nicely with this drive’s high performance.
So, let’s talk a little about that. The P5 is one of the fastest PCIe3.0drives that we’ve seen, with a rated read speed of 3400MB/s and write speeds of 3000MB/s. That’s some six to seven times faster than your standard SATA SSD (limited to ~550MB/s), and will make a huge difference to file transfer times.
There are even faster PCIe4.0drives, but these tend to cost far more than £100 for a 1TB model - and they’re only really useful in the PS5, where they’re required, and for content creators working with truly gigantic files - such as 4K or 8K video clips, for instance.
Theincluded Akasa heatsinkis quite basic, with a single-sided aluminium construction, but it should still dissipate heat effectively from its four fins. This helps keep performance consistently high even in hot PC cases, although you will need to ensure you have sufficient clearance to install it.
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