The Crucial P310 2230, a new SSD that was designed to help handheld gamers expand their gaming libraries while increasing the performance and load speed on some of today’s most popular devices, including the Valve Steam Deck and ASUS ROG Ally, is now available for purchase at crucial.com, as well as through select etailers, retailers, and global channel partners, Micron has announced. This new SSD, which is said to be the industry’s fastest 2230 Gen4 Consumer SSD, advertises read speeds of up to 7,100 MBs and is available in 1 TB and 2 TB capacity options.
Product links:
- Crucial P310 1TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe 2230 M.2 SSD (1 TB)
- Crucial P310 1TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe 2230 M.2 SSD (2 TB)
Key features include:
- “Read speeds of 7,100 MB/s, making this SSD the fastest 2230 Gen4 consumer drive in the industry.”
- “Random reads up to 1 million input/output operations per second (IOPS), allowing gamers to boot up and drop into their games faster.”
- “Capacity options from 1TB to 2TB,2 allowing handheld gamers and users of ultrathin laptops and mini PCs to store more games and content at their fingertips without having to worry about size or capacity.”
- “Power-efficient storage, which provides higher performance while limiting battery loss and extending device use on the go, even for the most data-intensive, graphically demanding games or creative projects.”
- “Backward compatibility with Gen3 devices.”
A promo video:
Micron on Crucial’s latest SSD:
The P310 2230 is architected from the ground up for power efficiency, offering drastically higher performance on similar amounts of power to other solutions. This capability is enabled by Micron’s advanced 3D NAND and innovative controller technology, fine-tuned in close collaboration with Phison to deliver fast Gen4 performance close to the maximum bandwidth in a lower power footprint.
The SSD is also compatible with ultrathin laptops and mini PCs, making it ideal for users wanting to increase speed and space for data-intensive projects and creative workflows on the go.
Using the M.2 2230 form factor, the P310 Gen4 SSD offers a lightweight, compact solution that users can install into handheld gaming consoles — like the Valve Steam Deck and ASUS ROG Ally and certain laptops like the Microsoft Surface or select Dell models — in as little as five minutes.