The portable console segment is actively developing. Valve Steam Deck, Asus ROG Ally and similar solutions have created demand for M.2 2230 type drives. Such SSDs are available from all major manufacturers, including Micron (2400, 2550 and 2500 series), but only now the company has released these products under the Crucial brand.
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The Crucial P310 is a family of M.2 2230 PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs that boast impressive read and write speeds of 7.1 GB/s and 6 GB/s, respectively. The family currently comes in 1 TB and 2 TB models for $115 and $215, respectively. The drives use 232-layer 3D NAND chips and the latest Phison E27T bufferless DRAM controller, both manufactured on TSMC’s 12 nm process technology. According to Micron, both drives provide low power consumption during active use.
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The specifications indicate that the drives use 232L 3D QLC memory, notes AnandTech. Compared to the previously released Micron 2550 SSDs in the same form factor, replacing the controller helped achieve some improvements in terms of energy efficiency and performance. Together with high capacity at a modest price, these qualities are the advantages of the Crucial P310 family. But there are also some drawbacks: the new SSDs do not have a very long service life – the manufacturer specifies a value of 0.12 DWPD (full drive writes per day), and this is a really modest figure compared to 0.33 DWPD, which competitors in the same segment are ready to offer.
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