Micron Upcoming Crucial P3 Plus Gen4 and P3 NVMe M.2 Up to 4TB SSDs With 176L 3D NAND

Micron Technology, Inc. announced the upcoming availability of 2 consumer storage products, the Crucial P3 Plus Gen4 NVMe and Crucial P3 NVMe SSDs, as an expansion of its Crucial NVMe SSD product portfolio.

These Crucial P3 Plus SSD product line will deliver price-performance metrics with sequential RW speeds up to 5,000/4,200MB/s ⁽¹⁾, while next-gen Crucial P3 SSDs will provide read/write speeds up to 3,500/3,000MB/s ⁽¹⁾. Both drives will be available in capacities up to 4TB ⁽²⁾, making them scalable storage solutions that professionals, creatives, gamers and other high-performance users need.

“For users that have been waiting to upgrade their PCs to Gen4 SSDs, the wait is over. With the forthcoming availability of the new Crucial P3 Plus SSD, anyone seeking high-performance SSDs can upgrade to NVMe Gen4 storage and affordably futureproof their PC,” said Teresa Kelley, VP and GM, commercial products group. “Both the Crucial P3 Plus and P3 SSD products will strengthen our overall SSD portfolio and NVMe product category by offering competitive choices for high-performance storage that enables users to get more done in less time.”

Crucial P3 Plus Gen4 NVMe SSD
The Crucial P3 Plus Gen4 NVMe SSD delivers load times and data transfers that are nearly 9x faster than SATA ⁽³⁾ SSDs and up to 43% faster than the fastest Gen3 SSDs ⁽⁴⁾ – for a NVMe Gen4 PC build or a NVMe Gen3 system upgrade. Built with the company’s 176L 3D NAND ⁽⁵⁾, the Crucial P3 Plus has been tested and validated to the standards users expect from one of the world’s leading manufacturers of flash memory. It is a robust storage solution with room to spare for all the apps, programs, files, photos, videos and games high-performance users may require. Additionally, the P3 Plus SSD offers flexible backward compatibility for most Gen3 systems.

Crucial P3 Gen3 NVMe SSD
The Crucial P3 Gen3 NVMe SSD has load times 6x faster than SATA SSDs and over 20 times faster than HDDs ⁽⁶⁾, while offering performance that is 45% faster than the previous generation ⁽⁷⁾. Fast bootups, downloads and file transfers make it for DIYers, casual gamers, professionals, entry-level designers – anyone who requires a NVMe on a budget or is looking to upgrade their PC away from older SATA or HDD technologies.

With anticipated availability later this summer, the Crucial P3 Plus and P3 SSDs round out Crucial’s internal and external SSD product offerings, which include the P5 Plus, X8, X6, MX500, and BX500. Additionally, both the P3 and the P3 Plus SSDs will come with Storage Executive management software for performance optimization, as well as free cloning software to ensure installation right out of the box.

As the company’s global consumer brand, Crucial is able to connect millions of customers to the innovation and technology that the firm has been perfecting for more than 4 decades. For over 25 years, online tools like the Crucial System Scanner have made it easy for customers such as content professionals, gamers, PC enthusiasts and DIY system builders to find compatible memory (DRAM) and storage (SSD) products for more than 175,000 desktops, laptops and workstations.

The company’sproducts are available on the firm’s website and WW from leading retail and e-tail stores, commercial resellers and system integrators, enhancing system performance and user productivity.

⁽¹⁾ Typical I/O performance numbers as measured using CrystalDiskMark with command queue full and write cache enabled. Fresh out-of-box (FOB) state is assumed. For performance measurement purposes, the SSD may be restored to FOB state using the secure erase command. System variations will affect measured results.
⁽²⁾ Some of the storage capacity is used for formatting and other purposes and is not available for storage. 1GB equals 1 billion bytes.
⁽³⁾ SSD speed comparison between Crucial P3 Plus NVMe SSD read speeds of 5,000MB/s and Crucial MX500 SATA SSD read speeds of 560MB/s.
⁽⁴⁾ Speed comparison are between Crucial P3 Plus published top speeds of 5,000MB/s and the fastest published Gen3 speeds for NVMe SSDs, at 3,500MB/s.
⁽⁵⁾ Micron/Crucial NAND components are subject to change while delivering consistent or better performance according to the product’s specifications.
⁽⁶⁾ SSD speed comparison between published Crucial P3 NVMe SSD read/write speeds of 3,500/3,000MB/s and published Crucial MX500 SATA SSD read/write speeds of 560/510MB/s; SSD vs. HDD speed comparisons between published Crucial P3 NVMe SSD read/write speeds of 3,500/3,000MB/s and top preset consumer hard disk drive read/write speeds of 7,200rpm (~156MB/s).
⁽⁷⁾ The Crucial P3 speeds of up to 3,500/3,000MB/s are 1.3x and 1.6x faster (respectively) than Crucial P2 speeds of up to 2,400/1,900MB/s.