Crucial P310 2280 2TB SSD Review

The PCMark 10 Full System Drive Benchmark uses a wide-ranging set of real-world traces from popular applications and common tasks to fully test the performance of the fastest modern drives. The benchmark is designed to measure performance of fast system drives using the SATA bus at the low end and devices connected via PCI Express at the high end.

The goal of the benchmark is to show meaningful real-world performance differences between fast storage technologies such as SATA, NVMe, and Intel’s Optane. The Full System Drive Benchmark uses 23 traces, running 3 passes with each trace. It typically takes an hour to run.

Traces used:

Booting Windows 10.
Adobe Acrobat – starting the application until usable.
Adobe Illustrator – starting the application until usable Adobe Premiere Pro – starting the application until usable.
Adobe Photoshop – starting the application until usable.
Battlefield V – starting the game until the main menu.
Call of Duty Black Ops 4 – starting the game until the main menu.
Overwatch – starting the game until main menu.
Using Adobe After Effects.
Using Microsoft Excel.
Using Adobe Illustrator.
Using Adobe InDesign.
Using Microsoft PowerPoint.
Using Adobe Photoshop (heavy use).
Using Adobe Photoshop (light use).
cp1 Copying 4 ISO image files, 20 GB in total, from a secondary drive to the target drive (write test).
cp2 Making a copy of the ISO files (read-write test).
cp3 Copying the ISO to a secondary drive (read test).
cps1Copying 339 JPEG files, 2.37 GB in total, to the target drive (write test).
cps2 Making a copy of the JPEG files (read-write test).
cps3 Copying the JPEG files to another drive (read test).

Crucial's P310 2280 handles the PCMark10's Full System Drive Benchmark without any problems and does a decent job of it. It averaged 281MB/s for the six Adobe startup traces, the fastest being 353MB/s for the startup trace of Premiere Pro. For the Adobe usage traces it averaged 533MB/s for the five tests, with the fastest being the 1,117MB/s for the Adobe Photoshop heavy usage trace. At 601MB/s it also does a good job with the Adobe After Effects test trace.

The drive averaged 830MB/s for the three gaming tests, the fastest being the Call Of Duty Black Ops 4 trace at 1,004MB/s. When it came to the file transfers set of tests, the fastest was the cp1 Write test at 4,220MB/s with the drive averaging 2,4199MB/s for the six file transfer tests.

With an overall bandwidth figure of 579.66MB/s, the 2TB Crucial P310 2280 slots into the fourth spot on the results chart, just 20MB/s behind the leader, Crucial's T500 drive.

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