How to Choose the Best External SSD for Gaming
Investing in an external SSD for gaming can hugely optimize your experience. Find the best external SSD to suit your needs for PC, Xbox and PS5, at Crucial.
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Check compatibility→Upgrade your PC with the performance it needs at a price you want. The Crucial P3 NVMe™ SSD delivers load times and data transfers that are 6x faster than SATA drives and 22x faster than HDDs2.
With generous capacities up to 4TB3, the Crucial P3 can hold massive amounts of files, documents, photos, videos, games, and apps, with room to spare.
Crucial P3 NVMe SSDs are built with high-quality Micron® Advanced 3D NAND, tested and validated to the exacting standards you’ve come to expect from one of the world’s largest manufacturers of flash memory. Want proof? Go check out our award-winning line of SSDs.
SSD management software for performance optimization and firmware updates give the Crucial P3 everything you need for security and peace of mind.
We’ve got your back! Crucial offers everything you need to get started and maintain optimal SSD performance.
Micron® has been producing some of the world's most advanced memory and storage technologies for more than 40 years. All Crucial® products are developed by Micron’s world-class engineering team to ensure best-in-class quality and reliability.
General tech specs | |
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Interface | NVMe (PCIe Gen 3 x4) |
SSD Endurance (TBW) | 110TB |
Form factor | M.2 (2280) |
SSD series | P3 |
Capacity | 500GB |
Speed & timing | |
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Sequential Read | 3,500 MB/s |
Sequential Write | 1,900 MB/s |
Warranty & returns | |
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Warranty | Limited 5-year |
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Our warranty policy
Micron quality and business-level reliability are baked into every one of our solid state drives. With thousands of hours of pre-release validation, and a heritage of award-winning SSDs, we are confident enough to include a three-year or five-year warranty, depending on the SSD product purchased.†
† Three years or five years or writing the maximum total bytes written (TBW) as published in the product datasheet and as measured in the product’s SMART data, whichever comes first.
The Crucial returns policy
It’s rare for customers to return Crucial products, but we offer a 45-day money-back period. If the problems exists after this period we are still here to help.
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