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Crucial P5 Plus Gen4 NVMe drive
Crucial P5 Plus Gen4 NVMe drives are filtering onto the open markets now, out of beta testing. Advertised capacities range from 500Gb to 1Tb - 2Tb.
Advertised read/write speeds are up to 6600Mb/s with the Momentum Cache operative. I don't doubt that as my P5 Gen3 regularly achieves 3800+Mb/s, with Win7 SP1 as the O/S.
Pricepoint on the P5 Plus 1Tb capacity is just under USD $200. Reasonable, I think. And to pique my interest, the Crucial website maintains that their Gen4 drives will operate as advertised in HP 250's i7/i5/i3.
BUT: does anyone have experience of these drives in a laptop without a heat sink ? They have what Crucial describe as "thermal management", which means as they heat up, the operating speed is deliberately throttled back. With the P5 Plus Gen4, does this become self-defeating ?