Crucial P3

Lord Alibaski · 20 Mar 2025 at 21:30

If I get this drive will I be able to fit the MSI heatsink over the top of it on the MSI X870E motherboard?

Need to get a decent 500gb drive for the OS.

Tetras · 20 Mar 2025 at 21:54

The only drives you should have an issue with the heatsink are drives that already include the heatsink.

Lord Alibaski said:
Need to get a decent 500gb drive for the OS.

I wouldn't want to use a QLC drive for the boot drive, but fine for storage.

Meddling-Monk · 20 Mar 2025 at 21:54

I don't see why the Heatsinks won't be able to sit on top of this NVMe drive.

Although be aware that the P3 is a DRAMless drive and some consider that to not be as ideal as one with DRAM Cache on it; the performance can tend to peak much sooner than a drive with DRAM Cache. And of course, you'll need Winows 10 or 11 to have HMB enabled to keep that RAM acting as Cache performance there, otherwise the performance will crash and stay at really low rates.

Lord Alibaski · 21 Mar 2025 at 08:22

Points taken thank you will look for a different drive. I do have this 1tb Samsung but I don't need 1tb for the OS.

freddie64 · 21 Mar 2025 at 10:28

This is better, but can't help thinking 500GB is a waste of a M.2 slot. (could get a bigger drive and partition it)
Your Samsung drive would not fit under the motherboard plate and you will likely void the warranty if you remove it.

My basket at OcUK:

1 x Kingston FURY Renegade 500GB PCI-e 4.0 NVMe M.2 Solid State Drive (SFYRS/500G) (SKU: STO-KNG-01328) = £44.99

Total: £48.98 (includes delivery: £3.99)

Lord Alibaski · 21 Mar 2025 at 10:34

Yeah I know the Samsung won't fit no intention of taking off the heatsink.

That Kingston looks good enough for me, I need the 4 sata connections for storage drives or I would have used one of those.

Tetras · 21 Mar 2025 at 13:23

Lord Alibaski said:
That Kingston looks good enough for me, I need the 4 sata connections for storage drives or I would have used one of those.

FYI (since you were considering the P3): the T500 is a high-end drive PCI-E 4.0 drive from Crucial and has been on offer a lot lately, but from what I can see the 500GB version is poor value so I wouldn't recommend it.

Lord Alibaski · 21 Mar 2025 at 16:55

I ordered the Kingston that will do.

Gershy13 · 29 Mar 2025 at 23:58

Tetras said:
FYI (since you were considering the P3): the T500 is a high-end drive PCI-E 4.0 drive from Crucial and has been on offer a lot lately, but from what I can see the 500GB version is poor value so I wouldn't recommend it.

Can confirm the T500 looks like the best performance to value ratio. They drop in price often too. End of Feb they were sitting at 59.99 for 1tb and 99.99 for 2tb. Performance is great and pretty much the best gen 4 has to offer.