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.

In less intensive tasks, the performance does not disappoint and is quite consistent, as shown via the HD Tune writes workload:

The P310 is currently priced at 79.99 Euros, a good price for the offered peak performance.

Crucial P310 1TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe 2280 M.2 SSD is Recommended for:

We would like to thank again to Crucial for making this review possible!