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The P310 comes in a slim-line box with a clear image of the drive on the front. To the right of this image is a sticker that displays the drive's capacity, maximum Sequential read speed (7,100MB/s) and a logo stating the 5-year warranty. The rear of the box is home to some multi-lingual notes about the drive's speed and backward compatibility.
Crucial's 2TB P310 is built on a single-sided M.2 2280 format.
Under the product label sits the controller and a single NAND package. Phison's PS5027-E27T is a 4-channel DRAM-less design controller built on a 12nm TSMC process. It uses single-CPU architecture (built-in ARM 32-bit Cortex-R5) and supports up to 8TB of both TLC or QLC NAND (Toggle 5.0 and ONFi 5.0 compliant) with transfer rates of up to 3600MT/s. Data reliability is provided by Phison's 5th generation LDPC ECC along with End-To-End Data Path Protection. It also supports AES 256-bit Encryption although this is not enabled on the P310. The NAND used for the P310 is Micron's own 232-layer N58R 3D QLC NAND running at 2,400MT/s.
With just two chips on the PCB, there is a lot of free real estate should Crucial fancy the idea of producing bigger capacity drives.
Crucial’s Storage Executive is a pretty comprehensive SSD toolkit. With it, you can check the drive’s S.M.A.R.T data, update the firmware, see how the drive’s capacity is being used, monitor the drive’s operating temperature and overall health as well as adjust the Over Provisioning. There are a few more options as well that aren't supported by this particular drive. There isn't a disc cloning tool built into the Storage Executive but Acronis True Image for Crucial can be downloaded from Crucial's website.
