Crucial P310 500GB PCIe Gen4 NVMe 2280 M.2 Solid State Drive

Model: Crucial P310 500GB PCIe Gen4 NVMe 2280 M.2 Solid State Drive
Manufacturer: Crucial
Provided By: Crucial

Crucial is a global brand of Micron Technology, Inc., one of the largest memory and flash storage manufacturers in the world. The company's product lineup includes award-winning solid state drives (SSDs) and computer memory upgrades (DRAM) for more than 50,000 systems. These products have been qualified and approved by major original equipment manufacturers and every single module has been rigorously tested at the component and module level. Each SSD also undergoes over a thousand hours of prerelease validation testing and hundreds of qualification tests to ensure optimal reliability and performance.

One of the latest additions to Crucial's line of solid state drives is the P310. Originally offered in an M.2 2230 form factor for use in ultrathin laptops, mini PCs and handheld gaming consoles like the Valve Steam Deck, the company has now released a full sized version for desktop and laptop computers. The P310 2280 is powered by Phison's PS5027-E27T controller and is available with up to 2TB of Micron's industry-leading 232-layer QLC NAND flash. The drive also includes features like dynamic write acceleration, adaptive thermal protection and integrated power loss immunity and is equipped with an ultra-fast PCIe Gen4 x4 NVMe 2.0 interface to deliver up to 7,100 MB/s read and 6,000 MB/s write speeds.

The P310 2280 is available in 500GB, 1TB and 2TB capacities. For this review, Crucial sent us the 500GB version of the drive, which is capable of delivering up to 6,600 MB/s sequential read and 3,500 MB/s sequential write speeds as well as up to 520K random read and 890K random write IOPS.

Needless to say, this is only a taste of what the P310 has to offer. To give you an idea of what to expect, we'll take a closer look at Crucial's new PCIe SSD and then see how well it performs. Does the P310 have what it takes? Can it deliver the performance and features that we've come to expect from Crucial?  Keep reading as we find out.