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Crucial P310 2TB

Crucial P310

Best Buy · 2TB, M.2 2280 (CT2000P310SSD8) Check price at Best Buy Amazon · 2TB, M.2 2280 (CT2000P310SSD8) Check price on Amazon
3DMark Storage 4,666points#9 of 11 PCMark 10 Storage 4,674points#7 of 11 CrystalDiskMark sequential Read7,017MB/s#9 of 9 3DMark DirectStorage Storage to VRAM, GDeflate14.8GB/s#7 of 8

A low-cost DRAM-less PCIe 4.0 drive on QLC flash. It keeps up with pricier Gen4 drives in game and everyday traces, but its 440 TBW endurance is about a third of the TLC drives' 1,200, so it suits a game library more than a scratch drive.

Against the line-up

3DMark Storage points

#9 of 11 · Tom's Hardware
  1. 1SN8100 2TB8,100
  2. 2Renegade G5 2TB7,337
  3. 3T705 2TB6,739
  4. 4T710 2TB6,647
  5. 8990 EVO Plus 2TB4,753
  6. 9P310 2TB4,666
  7. 10SN850X 2TB4,466

PCMark 10 Storage points

#7 of 11 · Tom's Hardware
  1. 1SN8100 2TB7,694
  2. 2Renegade G5 2TB6,893
  3. 39100 Pro 2TB6,597
  4. 4T710 2TB6,583
  5. 6T500 2TB4,781
  6. 7P310 2TB4,674
  7. 8990 Pro 2TB4,651

CrystalDiskMark sequential Read · MB/s

#9 of 9 · StorageReview; † another publication
  1. 1SN8100 2TB14,307
  2. 2Renegade G5 2TB14,302
  3. 3T710 2TB14,293
  4. 49100 Pro 2TB14,287
  5. 8990 EVO Plus 2TB7,116
  6. 9P310 2TB7,017

3DMark DirectStorage Storage to VRAM, GDeflate · GB/s

#7 of 8 · StorageReview
  1. 1SN8100 2TB26.1
  2. 2T710 2TB26
  3. 3T705 2TB25.8
  4. 49100 Pro 2TB23.8
  5. 6SN850X 2TB15.3
  6. 7P310 2TB14.8
  7. 8990 Pro 2TB14.2

LLM load time DeepSeek R1 32B · s, lower is better

#6 of 6 · StorageReview
  1. 1SN8100 2TB4.29
  2. 29100 Pro 2TB4.37
  3. 3T710 2TB4.46
  4. 4Renegade G5 2TB4.65
  5. 5990 Pro 2TB5.11
  6. 6P310 2TB5.48

The whole SSDs line-up side by side, with prices

Every benchmark

Quoted from the publications that ran them; we don't test hardware ourselves. Figures from different publications were run on different systems and scenes, so compare within a row's source.

CrystalDiskMark sequential

SettingResultSource
Read 7,017MB/s Tom's Hardware, Dec 6, 2024
Intel Core i9-12900K
Peak sequential read, 1MB QD8
7,206MB/s KitGuru, Oct 11, 2024
CrystalDiskMark 8 default test (SEQ1M Q8T1)
Write
one source		 6,173MB/s Tom's Hardware, Dec 6, 2024
Intel Core i9-12900K
Peak sequential write, 1MB QD8

3DMark Storage

SettingResultSource
Standard run 3,848points StorageReview, Mar 18, 2025
4,666points Tom's Hardware, Dec 6, 2024
Intel Core i9-12900K

PCMark 10 Storage

SettingResultSource
Standard run
one source		 4,674points Tom's Hardware, Dec 6, 2024
Intel Core i9-12900K
Data Drive
one source		 6,436points StorageReview, Mar 18, 2025

LLM load time

SettingResultSource
DeepSeek R1 32B
one source		 5.48s StorageReview, Mar 18, 2025
Average of 10 loads

3DMark DirectStorage

SettingResultSource
Storage to VRAM, GDeflate
one source		 14.8GB/s StorageReview, Mar 18, 2025

Sources

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