


best speed, performance, efficiency and storage size.


they seem well made...they are easy to set up too.

Was worried the heatsink would inpinge on the graphics card, and it was close! Check your measurements carefully. As a happy accident it is now catching air off the graphics card exhaust hopefully its a net cooling but who knows. The heat spreader that came with the MB was useless so I'm glad I got something with a HS already attached. sequential read only is even close to 14K, IOPS read though is 4.7 GB! really nice! And you can tell the speed when installing software or moving data.


- Was free in a bundle

I was thinking to upgrade my Asus Vivobook again from the currently installed 256GB Gen3 NVME M.2 to this much larger, faster 2TB Crucial 2230 M.2, but thinking about tearing down the Vivobook again would be a lot of work for what would be a limited upgrade with the notebooks available native Gen3 read/write speeds. Besides I primarily use the Vivobook for work. No need to compromise the Crucial 310 2230s performance doing the upgrade. I dont own any other suitable portable devices to test the drive, so Ill use a PC for benchmark speed testing. I have many ways to clone this drive including my Orico M.2 Cloner/Duplicator (see image). I already have an easy to boot to second Crucial NVME 4 x 4 clone of my main drive installed in the machine. So I installed the Crucial P310 as a storage drive in my MSI Pro B770M board using the primary available PCIE 4 x 4 M.2 slot. I installed the free downloadable Crucial Storage Executive software tool. There is an interesting option available with the tool called Momentum Cache which when enabled can make the drives SSD operations up to 10 times faster (see image). I understand enabling this feature works best if the drive is installed as the primary boot drive. My drive is installed as a storage drive so I did not enable Momentum Cache. The software also verified my drive came with the latest firmware. I ran CrystalDiskMark 8.0.6 and found the speed of the drive to be incredibly fast as advertised. 7016/6259 Read/Write (see image) There really is no compromise for having the fastest drive available installed in whatever machine you are using. Crucial recommends this drive for gaming handheld consoles and laptops. Unfortunately I do not own any handheld consoles to test the drive. I will mention this drive is as fast as any 4 x 4 drive I currently own. If you are looking into a 2230 NVME M.2 this Crucial P310 is eye-popping fast. The best choice out there as far as performance offered in 2230 NVME M.2 SSD . Also has a three year warranty.

- Working exceptionally better than expected - Amazing customer service - Relatively easy to set up - Worth the money

It's a memory M.2 SSD drive; fast, easy to install, and has the quality of Western Digital.

Fast and reliable

Item 100% working.

-Getting 3000+ on both read and write

well it's Samsung, plus latest model, so as expected everything good so far, hope it runs for years! enjoying it so far! extremely fast.

What can I say. It works and it's faster than a sd card


Price, name recognition

Was easy to install on my ASUS ROG Strix Z790-F Gaming WiFi II motherboard and to get Windows 11 installed. My games load a lot faster and work better than before (no lag/stuttering when progressing through levels, etc.). Was easy to update firmware and has plenty of room.
