Crucial P310 1TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe 2280 M.2 SSD Review

Storage/SSD by stefan @ 2024-10-05

The P310 1TB drive from Crucial does perform near top TLC offerings, surprising for a QLC drive but presents itself with the usual shortcomings when talking about TBW versus TLC, while the lowest write speed directly to QLC is considerably lower, around some high-performance platter drives.

Crucial P310 was clearly thought as a mainstream product, with no DRAM caching, while the temperatures remain excellent during intensive loads, allowing it to be used in systems with less-than-ideal cooling systems for the M.2 drive such as the PS5.

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Test Setup and Extra Info

Test Bench:

The test system did incorporate a AMD Ryzen 5 7900X 12-core CPU, an ANACOMDA Eryx Tataricus RGB 2x16GB DDR5 6000MHz memory kit, but also a Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus NVMe 4.0 2TB SSD as a system drive; all these were connected to the BIOSTAR X670E VALKYRIE AM5 motherboard. As a power supply we have chosen a Cooler Master 850W non-modular and the system was running the latest Windows 11 OS build as well.

The drive has arrived unformatted, but for testing purposes, we have formatted it NTFS:

 

 

With the help of AIDA64, we could extract more information regarding the drive:

 

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