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Micron Expands SSD Portfolio With New Crucial P310 2280 Gen 4 SSD

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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:
  • 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 SSD is available in a standard M.2 2280 form factor that offers an easy-to-install solution that customers can use to upgrade their existing laptops and extend device lifecycles rather than buying new ones. A version with a heatsink will be released in the coming months and is ideally suited for use with PlayStation 5 and desktop gaming PCs.

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
Sources: Micron, Crucial

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31 Comments on Micron Expands SSD Portfolio With New Crucial P310 2280 Gen 4 SSD

#26
Wirko
azraelNot sure if serious or not...
Haha, I see my message was easy to misunderstand. "440 TBW" - that's sufficient technical data for you to know what you're buying. Not a sufficient TBW rating.

I still have a plan to buy a very cheap QLC SSD and torture it with writing until it lets out the magic smoke. There are issues with my plan, though. The budget I approved to self is around 11 €. But the cheapest branded SSDs (Kingston A400, Patriot Burst Elite) are all TLC at lowest capacities, looking at TPU SSD database. There's a great probability that a Fanxiang/Fikwot/Intenso 120GB or 128GB SSD would be TLC as well, so half less fun. Besides, I expect those models to be slow too, so I might give up before the noble task is fulfilled.
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#27
Chrispy_
WirkoHaha, I see my message was easy to misunderstand. "440 TBW" - that's sufficient technical data for you to know what you're buying. Not a sufficient TBW rating.

I still have a plan to buy a very cheap QLC SSD and torture it with writing until it lets out the magic smoke. There are issues with my plan, though. The budget I approved to self is around 11 €. But the cheapest branded SSDs (Kingston A400, Patriot Burst Elite) are all TLC at lowest capacities, looking at TPU SSD database. There's a great probability that a Fanxiang/Fikwot/Intenso 120GB or 128GB SSD would be TLC as well, so half less fun. Besides, I expect those models to be slow too, so I might give up before the noble task is fulfilled.
you won't find low-capacity TLC very easily as the increased controller cost isn't offset by the increased capacity QLC provides.

500GB is likely the smallest QLC drive you'll see anywhere on the market, at probably twice you throwaway science budget.

You have a better chance of finding QLC in a budget laptop with a 500GB drive, and it's "spare" once you've put a decently sized and performing replacement into it.
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#28
A&P211
Chrispy_Good grief that's abysmal!
At least newer QLC isn't usually that slow.
Its the samsung 870 8tb 2.5in SSD. The SLC cache is not very large, I only use it for project video storage.
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#29
kapone32
BwazeNo, they are telling us we should buy more drives (with all complications this brings with more expensive motherboards and lane bifurcations), not bigger drives - even readers here often agree that in the age of streaming and cloud storage noone needs larger drives at all!

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.
Funny thing is that I came into a nice cash bonus. As a PC Gamer I wanted to make sure that I could commemorate it with something I would not usually buy for my PC. I saw the Micron 5210 on sale on Newegg for a cool $849 Canadian. That was in 2020. So yes 8TB has been with us but they seem to think that enterprise is the only place to innovate NVME.
Chrispy_you won't find low-capacity TLC very easily as the increased controller cost isn't offset by the increased capacity QLC provides.

500GB is likely the smallest QLC drive you'll see anywhere on the market, at probably twice you throwaway science budget.

You have a better chance of finding QLC in a budget laptop with a 500GB drive, and it's "spare" once you've put a decently sized and performing replacement into it.
There was a time where NVME was going down. I am pretty sure I bought the 4TB NV2 for less than $300. The prices have gone back up though. There are some cheap Chinese drives on Amazon but they are all Chinese (Not Taiwan) like Kingspec. Kingston needs to drop the price of the NV2 back to normal levels.
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#30
Minus Infinity
BICs9 QLC drives can't come fast enough. For the love of god, if they can actually improve wear rate, throughput and capacity at sensible prices they may finally make some sense. Samsung is making big claims, but then again, they promised QLC would be an era of larger capacity, cheaper drives with good performance and all claims were total lies.
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#31
rusty caterpillar
It seems that some P3 1TB but, I think mostly P3 + goes to slow write speeds specially writes, to overprotect the drives, even at 50 C. If the controller was coded to throttle the drive to lower writes even at low and medium temps than yes that drive will last :)
Just think where most ppl will place their fast M2, above GPU or under, mostly because MBO offer only that or are the fastest slots. So, heat is an issue for M2 and external causes increase that considerably backplate and fin orientation of GPU are ready to roast. Maybe this throttling at low and medium temps is what they chose to do to increase longevity or to use cheaper chips in general.

Back in time I've seen this desktop from Dell with a slow 5400 rpm HDD from Seagate known to have flaws over whole series. Dell capped the HDD to 4200rpm in the bios and of course as a result with only 256 MB ram windows was loading terrible. Drive was running hot even on 4200rpm.
The idea is Dell capped the drive so it won't die in warranty. They bought a flawed HDD series cheap as hell and found a solution :)
Just my 5 cents.

I think is better if I go for WD SN850X instead of P3 +
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