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The P310 comes in a small, blue and white box. Along with a picture of the drive, the packaging advertises a number of its key features including its 2TB capacity, support for PCIe Gen4 NVMe technology, maximum read speed and 5 year warranty. Inside, you'll find the P310 as well as a small guide with information on where you can get additional help and download the migration and cloning software.
Physical Features:
This version of the P310 uses the 2280 form factor for M.2 (NGFF) SSDs. It measures 80mm x 22mm x 2.3mm and weighs in at 10g. The drive also has an "M key" edge connector which provides PCIe SSDs with up to 4x lanes of bandwidth.
The P310 is one of the first drives to use Phison's PS5027-E27T controller. Manufactured using TSMC 12nm process technology, this DRAM-less, PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe 2.0 controller is powered by a single-core ARM Cortex R5 processor and has 4 NAND channels with 16 chip enables (CE) per channel. The E27T also offers support for up to 8TB of 3D TLC/QLC NAND flash and features end-to-end data path protection, hardware-based encryption and Phison's fifth generation low-density parity-check (LDPC) and RAID ECC algorithms for improved drive reliability.
For the 500GB version of the P310, Crucial opted to use Micron's 232-Layer QLC NAND flash. If you'd remove the label, you'd see that there is a single 500GB NAND flash package on top of the PCB. There is also no DRAM cache chip as the P310's controller takes full advantage of NVMe's Host Memory Buffer feature by using a small portion of the computer's memory to cache the mapping tables.
