Customer Ratings & Reviews

This particular NVMe SSD is targeted as a upgrade for the Sony PS5 and has a permanently attached cooler. This is important to know in case you have plans to use this SSD in a PC or laptop. Since the cooler is not removeable you need to make sure you have enough clearance in your desired install area. As far as an upgrade for a PS5 it is a fantastic option. You will be required to remove your side panel and move the mounting screw from the 22110 position to the 2280 position. Both of these tasks are trivial and the Crucial P310 installs easily. Sony has a stated minimum spec for read speed of 5500MB/s and this blows right past that spec and is rated to 7100MB/s read and 6000MB/s write. While installed in my PS5 I am getting north of 6400MB/s, which is right up there is speed with the highest end SSDs when used in a PS5. I also tested this in my PC to verify the speed claims and I am happy to report I achieved 7200MB/s read and 6300MB/s write in my system. Overall given the great pricing and speeds of this SSD I feel it is a great value as an upgrade to your PS5 or even to expand the storage of a PC.

I'm reviewing the Crucial P310 PCI Express 4.0 high-performance SSD with a heatsink, in 80mm size. The 80mm version is for laptop and desktop machines. I tested the 2TB storage model. It uses Micron's 232-layer Quad Level Cell NAND flash memory. 232-layer QLC NAND is the densest QLC NAND available. It's DRAM-less, using your PC's main memory as a host memory buffer (HMB). My understanding is that QLC NAND stores four bits per cell, and that potentially impacts performance and endurance compared to TLC (Triple-Level Cell) NAND. Regardless, this SSD delivers a minimum of 5,500 MB/s read speed, which is what Sony recommends for the PS5. Considering games take up so much room nowadays you're probably better off going with a 4TB mode, but the price goes up enough that you're probably better off going with a different more performant drive. In my tests, the P310 slightly exceeded Micron's claimed read and write speeds. Overall, the P310 demonstrated solid PCIe 4.0 speed compared to a competing drive I had on my desktop PC. I was a little disappointed with the QLC flash memory because it has a lower terabytes written (TBW) rating than non-QLC drives. For example, another 2 TB drive I have from the most popular drive maker has a 1200 TBW. The Crcuial 2TB model has a 440 TBW rating. The drive's five-year warranty is valid as long as the TBW rating is not exceeded. My typical PC use is unlikely to go reach this before the warranty expires but something I look at. I ran PCMARK and DiskBench tests. The P310 2280 did well on both. The numbers seem to be in line with other drives in the same price range amd reviewed on the web. The QLC flash memory caps the top speeds at lower write performance but it was good enough to compete but not beat higher-end drives and slightly beat a lower end drive I have on my PC. Considering it’s DRAM-less, the results were pretty good for sustained copy jobs and big files. I didn't test performance when the drive was fill, which can drop performance, as there's less spare area to work with. If you need DRAM and/or TLC flash then go with the T500 model but it will be more expensive.