Recently we reported on the Crucial T700 2TB Gen5 SSD deal, which is on sale at the moment for its lowest-ever price. The discount is on the heatsink variant. Check it out in this dedicated article.
Following that, Crucial has dropped the prices of the T705 2TB (without heatsink), which is also a Gen5 drive that we have covered already, and the P310, which is a slower Gen4 model, albeit with more capacity.
While this is a really good drive, the P310 does have a somewhat significant drawback compared to some other options. It comes with QLC NAND as opposed to TLC, and as such you get much lower drive endurance, which means this SSD is not the most appropriate one if you are looking to carry out heavy disk transfer tasks fairly often, like say constant game installations, deletions, and reinstallations.
And although this drive does not have dedicated DRAM for metadata caching, which can hurt its random performance a bit, it does come equipped with HMB (host memory buffer) support, and thus it should not be any issue as long as you have more than 2 GB of system memory, out of which the P310 will access around 64 MB.
The technical specifications of the P310 2280 model are given below:
| Specification | Value |
|---|---|
| Interface/Protocol | PCIe Gen4 x4, NVMe 1.4 |
| Capacity | 4TB |
| NAND Type | Micron Advanced 3D NAND QLC |
| Sequential Read Speed | Up to 7,100 MB/s |
| Sequential Write Speed | Up to 6,000 MB/s |
| Random Read (4KB, QD32) | Up to 1,000,000 IOPS |
| Random Write (4KB, QD32) | Up to 1,200,000 IOPS |
| Endurance (TBW) | Up to 800 TBW |
| MTTF | 1.5 million hours |
| Operating Temperature | 0°C to 70°C |
| Hardware Encryption | AES 256-bit encryption, TCG Opal 2.0 compliant |
Get it at the link below:
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Crucial P310 4TB PCIe Gen4 2280 NVMe M.2 SSD with heatsink – with Acronis Offer, Internal Solid State Drive (PC) – CT4000P310SSD5-01: $201.99 (Sold and Shipped by Amazon US)
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