Crucial P310
Crucial
85 Overall Score
vs
Kingston SSD
Kingston
95 Overall Score
What Buyers Say
Crucial P310
88 out of 100 medium confidence 27 reviews
The Crucial P310 is widely praised for its fast speeds, matching advertised performance, and effective heatsink. Users appreciate the 5-year warranty, easy installation, and good value, with many noting its compatibility with PS5. A few minor concerns include lower endurance due to QLC NAND and the need for PCIe 4.0 to achieve full speeds.
Pros
- Fast speeds
- Effective heatsink
- 5-year warranty
- Easy installation
- Good value
Cons
- Lower endurance (QLC)
- Requires PCIe 4.0 for full speed
- No included mounting screw
- Cloning software not favorite
Performance speed 20
Heatsink effectiveness 12
Warranty 15
Ease of installation 10
Value for money 9
Ps5 compatibility 5
Kingston SSD
No customer feedback yet
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Specifications
| Crucial P310 | Kingston SSD | |
|---|---|---|
| Drive | ||
| Capacity | ||
| Form Factor | M.2 2280 | M.2 |
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x4 | PCIe 4.0 |
| Protocol | NVMe | NVMe |
| PCIe Generation | 4 | 4 |
| External | ✗ | ✗ |
| Performance | ||
| Sequential Read (MB/s) | ||
| Sequential Write (MB/s) | ||
| Random Read (IOPS) | ||
| Random Write (IOPS) | ||
| Hardware | ||
| NAND | TLC | TLC |
| DRAM Cache | ✗ | ✓★ |
| Reliability | ||
| Endurance (TBW) | ||
| MTBF (hours) | No data | |
| Warranty (years) | 5 | 5 |
| Features | ||
| Heatsink | ✗ | ✓★ |
Pros & Cons
Crucial P310
- Strong social proof (96th percentile)96th %ile
- Strong random (94th percentile)94th %ile
- Strong capacity (93rd percentile)93rd %ile
- Strong speed (81st percentile)81st %ile
- Below average feature (14th percentile)14th %ile
Kingston SSD
- Strong social proof (96th percentile)96th %ile
- Strong feature (94th percentile)94th %ile
- Strong random (94th percentile)94th %ile
- Strong endurance (94th percentile)94th %ile
Verdict
Winner: Kingston SSD
Scores 95 overall, wins 5 of 6 usage categories and 6 of 16 specs.