TapTechNews July 17th news, Micron announced that its consumer brand Crucial has launched a new M.2 NVMe solid-state drive, the P310. This drive comes in the compact 2230 form factor, including two capacity versions of 1TB and 2TB.
Micron says the Crucial P310 is a compact product with both performance and capacity. It is targeted at devices such as all-in-one PCs, mini PCs, and ultra-thin laptops, and is compatible with Valve Steam Deck, ASUS ROG Ally, MSI Claw three handheld game consoles and Microsoft Surface Pro.
The Crucial P310 is also the second retail-level M.2 2230 solid-state drive of the flash memory original equipment manufacturer brand recently after Western Digital WD_BLACK SN770M.
The Crucial P310 is equipped with the PCIe 4.0×4 four-channel DRAM-less main controller PS5027-E27T which is collaboratively optimized by Crucial and Phison, and the sequential read and write rates can reach 7100/6000 MB/s, random read and write can reach 1000K/1200K IOPS.
Foreign media Anandtech said that the Crucial P310 is equipped with Micron's 232-layer 3D QLC NAND flash memory.
The 1TB version of the Crucial P310 solid-state drive is priced at 114.99 US dollars on overseas e-commerce platforms (TapTechNews note: currently about 837 RMB), and the 2TB version is 214.99 US dollars (currently about 1565 RMB).
Micron provides a 5-year warranty for the Crucial P310, the write volume within the warranty period for the 1TB version is 220 TB, and for the 2TB version it is 440 TB.