Tuesday, September 17th 2024
Micron Expands SSD Portfolio With New Crucial P310 2280 Gen 4 SSD
Micron Technology, Inc., today announced the availability of the Crucial P310 2280 Gen 4 NVMe solid-state drive (SSD), which offers two times faster performance than Gen 3 SSDs and 40% faster performance than Crucial's P3 Plus, giving gamers, students and creatives a boost in speed when they boot and use data-intensive applications. With capacities up to 2 terabytes (TB) and read and write speeds of 7,100 and 6,000 megabytes per second (MB/s) respectively, the P310 2280 SSD enables more customers than ever to gain access to gaming performance without paying gaming prices. This launch expands Micron's P310 portfolio to address PCs, laptops and PlayStation 5, closely following the July launch of its award-winning Crucial P310 2230 SSD, which is targeted at users of handheld gaming consoles and mini PCs.
"Micron's Crucial P310 2280 SSD delivers blazing fast gaming-level speeds, allowing users to do it all faster — from gaming to booting Windows to running multiple creative apps at the same time — without compromising on quality," said Jonathan Weech, senior director of product marketing for Micron's Commercial Products Group. "Architected with our advanced 3D NAND technology and optimized to deliver the utmost power efficiency, the 2280 SSD empowers everyone from gamers to creatives to squeeze more out of their battery life when using data-rich apps."
The Crucial P310 2280 Gen 4 SSD offers these benefits:
The P310 2280 Gen 4 SSD is now available at crucial.com, as well as through select etailers, retailers and global channel partners, and it comes with a five-year warranty
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Micron, Crucial
"Micron's Crucial P310 2280 SSD delivers blazing fast gaming-level speeds, allowing users to do it all faster — from gaming to booting Windows to running multiple creative apps at the same time — without compromising on quality," said Jonathan Weech, senior director of product marketing for Micron's Commercial Products Group. "Architected with our advanced 3D NAND technology and optimized to deliver the utmost power efficiency, the 2280 SSD empowers everyone from gamers to creatives to squeeze more out of their battery life when using data-rich apps."
- Sequential read speeds of 7,100 MB/s and write speeds of 6,000 MB/s.
- Capacity options from 500 gigabytes to 1 TB or 2 TB, allowing users to store more content without worrying about size or capacity.
- 20% faster performance in real-world tasks than other Gen 4 SSDs booting Windows, starting applications such as Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, and loading seamless gameplay on PCs.
- Random reads up to 1 million input/output operations per second (IOPS) and random writes up to 1.2 million IOPS.
- Up to 40% better performance-to-power ratio, allowing users to get more done on a single charge.
- Backward compatibility with Gen 3 devices.
The P310 2280 Gen 4 SSD is now available at crucial.com, as well as through select etailers, retailers and global channel partners, and it comes with a five-year warranty
31 Comments on Micron Expands SSD Portfolio With New Crucial P310 2280 Gen 4 SSD
The fact that DRAM and NAND density aren't mentioned means that it's almost certainly DRAMless QLC garbage.
edit - yeah, reviews seem to show it reserves around 17% of the remaining free space (possibly exactly 1/6th) for pSLC cache mode before dropping to ~300MB/s writes. That's not the worst QLC write speeds I've seen so I'll give this a tentative pass if it's significantly cheaper than the TLC-NAND equivalents like the SN580 and Crucial P5.
(lying or fake advertisment are bad words)Maybe someone can improve the following statement, or give better insights.
I read it as 7100MB/s / 20 = 355MB/s Read speed.
Several Webpages have similar statementsSeveral drives claims over 500MB/S read for SATA III drives, Source: ssd-tester.com/sata_ssd_test.php
Feel free to do the maths, choose the numbers. That is far of the 20 times.
- 7100 / 500
- 7100 / 600
- 7100 / 530
What I know for sure my gnu linux userspace always advertise my SATA connectors with SATA 6 Gb/s. On older sold notebooks I had less speed on the optical sata connector for example.--
Final statement. Crucial if you read this: Stop advertisement which is wrong. State the correct numbers. State the standard for SATA speeds, for example 20 times faster as SATA I or 20 times faster as SATA II
Each extra bit doubles program-erase cycle complexity, halves the endurance, halves the performance, and increases the amount of work the controller needs to do, which raises both the power consumption and the cost of the controller.
SLC > MLC was 100% more storage, so worth it.
MLC > TLC was 50% more storage, so worth it, mostly.
TLC > QLC was 33% more storage, and definitely only worth it for specific use cases at larger capacities where the controller costs and other downsides can be mitigated by significant cost savings.
QLC > PLC will be just 25% more storage, and is almost certainly going to deliver cheap microSD card performance, barely enough endurance to meet the bare minimum warranty term, and horrific controller costs that will be difficult to recoup for the bottom-of-the-barrel market segment it will be targeting. I'm not even convinced QLC is viable outside of games libraries and casual-use devices...
God I hate product naming.
www.techpowerup.com/ssd-specs/crucial-p310-1-tb.d2073
I guess all of you have lost your ability to read.
For many manufacturers, the controller and NAND are randomly selected from whatever the cheapest available source is. At least here it's 99% likely to be using Micron's own NAND, but they could still be bait-and-switching the controller based on what day of the week it is - the lack of the controller in their official product spec pages is quite obviously intentional wiggle room.
Also, Crucial only ever uses Micron NAND in their SSDs, for obvious reasons.
The rest, I can't vouch for.
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There were now several waves of announcements on how 8 TB drives are coming in larger numbers, we were even told in various tech shows that the current models will later come in 8 TB capacity, and nothing. Sure, we have couple of them, but the price is ridiculous - when 4 TB drives could be had below 200 EUR you could at least expect some drive to approach 400 EUR + some fee for cutting edge largest capacity - but no, they remained firmly above 800 EUR... There aren't even many reviews of these drives, too dear. We were teased cheaper large capacity drives, and larger capacities for consumer drives this year from several makers, but they might have diverted all this push to satisfy the (for now) better paying AI server market!
So I wouldn't hold my breath.
At least newer QLC isn't usually that slow.
Also, for whatever (bad) reason, Crucial doesn't even tell us that the T705, T700, and T500 are TLC. Their specs reveal little more than "yes, it works".