This looks like a really good time to upgrade your storage as Crucial is currently having sales on several of its NVMe SSD models both PCIe Gen4 and Gen5. Earlier, we already covered the ones on P310, T700, and T705 which you can find details on in their respective articles linked below; and following them, Crucial has also dropped the price of the P510 as it is also available now for its lowest ever value (purchase links under the specs table down below).
The good thing about the P510 is that it packs TLC memory, unlike a lot of other Crucial drives, and so you should not have to worry about longer read/write sessions as TLC (triple-level cell) NAND flash has higher endurance than QLC.
The P510 lacks dedicated DRAM though but it supports HMB (host memory buffer) technology such that it can use a portion (about 64MB) of the system memory for metadata caching purposes.
The key technical specifications of the Crucial 2TB P310 are given in the table below:
| Specification | Value |
|---|---|
| Form factor | M.2 2280 (single‑sided) |
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x4 |
| Protocol | Unknown (not specified) |
| Controller | Phison PS5031‑E31T (ARM 32‑bit Cortex‑R5, triple‑core, 7 nm; 4 channels @ 3600 MT/s) |
| DRAM cache | None |
| Host Memory Buffer (HMB) | 64 MB |
| NAND manufacturer | Micron |
| NAND type / technology | TLC, 276‑layer “B68S FortisFlash” |
| NAND configuration | 2 chips @ 8 Tbit; 8 dies per chip @ 1 Tbit; ONFI 5.1; charge‑trap topology; 6 planes/die; 3 decks/die |
| NAND die metrics | Die size: 49 mm² (20.9 Gbit/mm²); page size: 16 KB; tR: 32 μs; tProg: 320 μs; die write: 300 MB/s; endurance: up to 3000 P/E |
| SLC write cache | Yes (pseudo‑SLC) |
| Sequential read (max) | 10,000 MB/s |
| Sequential write (max) | 8,500 MB/s |
| Random read | 1.4M IOPS |
| Random write | 1.5M IOPS |
| Endurance (TBW) | 1200 TBW |
| Warranty | 5 years |
| Drive Writes Per Day (DWPD) | 0.3 |
| TRIM / SMART | Supported |
| Overprovisioning | 185.4 GB (10.0%) |
Get it at the links below:
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Crucial P510 2TB Gen5 NVMe SSD with Heatsink, +Acronis Software - CT2000P510SSD5-01: $169.99 (Sold and Shipped by Amazon US)
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Crucial P510 2TB Gen5 NVMe SSD, +Acronis Software - CT2000P510SSD8-01: $141.99 (Sold and Shipped by Amazon US)
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