Micron Crucial has announced the launch of the Crucial P310, a solid state drive that achieves performance close to the maximum allowed by the PCIe 4.0 interface and is marketed in three versions with up to 2 TB of capacity.
Micron is one of the world’s storage giants and one of the few manufacturers capable of producing its own NAND, DRAM and controllers to market an SSD like the one we are dealing with and that “It delivers incredible performance, allowing users to do everything faster, from playing games to launching Windows or running multiple creative applications at the same time”explains Jonathan Weech, senior director of product marketing for Micron’s Commercial Products Group.
We are talking about an SSD in M.2 2280 format that, connected to a PCIe Gen4 port, reaches data transfer speeds of up to 7,100 / 6,000 Mbytes per second in sequential read/writewhile in random mode it rises to 1 million input/output operations per second (IOPS) and random writes of up to 1.2 million IOPS.
Micron reports up to 40% better performance-power ratio «against other units» and a performance “20% faster in real-world tasks than other Gen 4 SSDs when booting up Windows, launching applications like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, and loading games on the PC”We assume that the manufacturer is referring to its performance with the built-in cache memory that speeds up access to the most used data, although in any case it has not been mentioned in the specifications.
Not to mention that it is not a Gen5, the fastest on the market. It should be said that these units are compatible with previous versions of the standard and can be installed in motherboards with PCIe 3 connectors.
Crucial P310, availability and price
The unit is marketed with a five-year warranty and is available in Crucial.com and at major retailers in three storage capacities and with the following official price:
- 500 GB: $88.99
- 1TB: $114.99
- 2TB: $189.99
A heatsink version will be released in the coming months, which Micron says will be ideal for use in consoles like the PlayStation 5 and desktop computers.
Source: www.muycomputer.com
