Crucial P1 SSD Review: Nimble NVMe Storage For Pennies Per Gig

Name: Crucial P1
Brand: Crucial

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, April 18, 2019, 12:00 PM EDT

Next we used SiSoft SANDRA, the the System ANalyzer, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant for some quick tests. Here, we used the Physical Disk test suite and provide the results from our comparison SSDs. The benchmarks were run on clean drives that lacked any partitions. Read and write performance metrics are detailed below.

SiSoft SANDRA

Synthetic Disk Benchmarking

The Crucial P1's write performance puts it slightly ahead of the Intel SSD 760P, but behind the AData XPG SX8200. Its read performance, however, trails the pack.

ATTO Disk Benchmark

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ATTO is another "quick and dirty" type of disk benchmark that measures transfer speeds across a specific volume length. It measures raw transfer rates for both reads and writes and graphs them out in an easily interpreted chart. We chose .5KB through 64MB transfer sizes and a queue depth of 6 over a total max volume length of 256MB. ATTO's workloads are sequential in nature and measure raw bandwidth, rather than I/O response time, access latency, etc.

The Crucial P1 remains competitive the with AData and Intel drives in the read test here, until it hits the 2MB transfer size, at which point its performance tapers off. The same can be said in the write test, though the P1's performance drops off at about the 16K mark and ends up trailing the rest of the way.

Tags: SSD, Micron, Storage, Crucial, nvme, m.2, p1

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com