Crucial P3 1TB PCIe Gen3
$46.19
$64.99
29% off
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Condition: New
Color: Black
Size: 1TB
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Works great in the 2013 Mac Pro!
By Roger Manuel on Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2025
I got this 4TB Crucial P3 NVMe SSD as an upgrade to the original 512GB Apple-OEM SSD in my 2013 Mac Pro (otherwise known as the "trash can" Mac Pro). Using a Sintech NGFF M.2 NVMe SSD Adapter Card, I was able to connect this Crucial P3 directly to the 2013 Mac Pro's NVMe slot without any fuss. After formatting the Crucial P3 to APFS in Disk Utility and installing a fresh copy of macOS Monterey, I was in business. The Crucial P3 was very easy and pleasant to install. (Note that for anyone wanting to use a Crucial P3 in their 2013 Mac Pro, you MUST install and run macOS Monterey prior to installing the Crucial P3 due to the NVMe-related firmware that macOS Monterey installs. The reported firmware version after installing macOS Monterey on the 2013 Mac Pro is 481.0.0.0.0.) Blackmagic Disk Speed Test reports 1280 MB/s write and 1350 MB/s for this Crucial P3, which is the expected result given the 2013 Mac Pro's PCIe 2.0 bottleneck. This is still a major improvement over the OEM Apple SSD, which only achieves around 900 MB/s write and 940 MB/s read, respectively. For older machines that are stuck with PCIe 2.0 or 3.0, the Crucial P3 is an excellent value for the capacity. Just don't expect to run it in a professional setting -- the P3 is really meant for casual users that want good storage per dollar without the expectation of slinging terabytes of data around on a daily basis. The Crucial P3 doesn't have any DRAM cache, nor does it have a heatsink. While the Crucial P3 doesn't run too hot unto itself, you may still want to consider thermal management in the case where you do want to run sustained loads on the SSD through PCIe 3.0 or Thunderbolt 3/4. However, if you are running PCIe 2.0 or are just using the Crucial P3 casually, then you can safely get away without using any thermal management since the Crucial P3 will run cool enough by itself. If you are running PCIe 3.0 or Thunderbolt 3/4, then don't expect the P3 to perform at its best on large sustained data transfers. But if you are running PCIe 2.0 like I am with my 2013 Mac Pro, then these weaknesses are mitigated due to the PCIe 2.0 bottleneck. If you do decide to use the Crucial P3 in an NVMe enclosure, be sure to use an aluminum enclosure that can act as the Crucial P3's heatsink. I used an ACASIS TBU405 Pro 40Gbps Thunderbolt 3/4 NVMe enclosure for my initial testing with the Crucial P3, and it works like a charm. Running the Crucial P3 in the ACASIS TBU405 Pro enclosure connected to my 2019 MacBook Pro i9, Blackmagic Disk Speed Test reports 2300 MB/s write and 2240 MB/s read. These numbers are on the slower side compared to the more expensive PCIe 3.0 and 4.0 NVMe SSD drives, which clearly demonstrates the budget performance of the Crucial P3. You get what you pay for. But for the casual use case, the low cost per gigabyte of the P3 backed by the support of Crucial, a respectable brand that I have bought plenty of RAM and SSDs from in the past, is why I am giving the 4TB Crucial P3 a 5-star rating. It does what it needs to do, which is to provide big storage for an affordable price, all within a convenient NVMe package. And if you can get the Crucial P3 on sale like I did, then it easily becomes a no-brainer purchase. As long as you keep your performance expectations within reason, the Crucial P3 will serve you well. My 2013 Mac Pro has never felt better!
Top critical review
Warranty replacement of their products is a nightmare.
By J. Gaulke on Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2025
I am a computer reseller. I have used Crucial drives almost exclusively for several years and have been reasonably satisfied with their quality. Recently I had a customer contact me to say that the drive I had installed in their laptop had failed. They had contacted Crucial to request warranty replacement. They were told that they couldn't get a replacement without submitting their original purchase invoice. They asked if I could help. I told them that I would replace the drive and submit a claim for warranty with my original invoice from Amazon. It started out badly. I went to their website, entered the serial number and confirmed that the drive was under warranty. Instead of providing me a form to fill out on the website to get a RMA, I was directed to call their toll free phone line. When I did that I got a women who could barely speak English. I was not able to communicate reasonably with her, so I ended the conversation, and called back. The second representative was a slight improvement, and told me she would send me an email telling me how to proceed. I never received it. I called a third time and got the same story. Watch for an email. Got the email a week later. It told me to send them a copy of my purchase invoice from Amazon. I responded to the email, and attached the copy. Ten days later, having received no confirmation of receipt of my document, I called back to follow up. I was told they hadn't received it, and that I must not have emailed it to the right place. I said the email I received offered no instruction as to the proper way to submit it. I was told I would be sent another email with those instructions. I didn't receive an email as promised. I called in again, and was told they would "resend "it. I received that email a week later, and resubmitted the invoice. Again, no confirmation that it was received. Finally after 2 weeks I was informed that an RMA had been issued, and that I would receive another email with instructions on how to ship the defective drive to them. I followed their instruction and sent in the drive. Again I get no feedback for a week or two, until finally I get an email saying that my claim has been approved, and it has been sent to the shipping department for processing. Three weeks later I got a delivery from Malaysia in a box the size of two shoe boxes with my tiny little SSD inside. I feel that Crucial aka Micron Technologies did just about everything possible to avoid honoring their warranty. I will never ever purchase one of their products again. I have gone from a fan and loyal customer to someone who will tell everyone possible, not to buy from them because what good is a warranty from a company that makes it painful to redeem.
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