Key SSD P510 NVME review

List better evaporation than micron and phison. I’ll wait. PB and J? Penn and Teller? There is no chance. This terrible mix of Micron Flash and Phison Controller has provided absolutely rapid SSDs for years. From the T500 to T705, it is a company that has passed from strength, provides exceptional storage due to the impressive Phison Controller technology. When Big Blue Boys reached out and offered me a chance to review their latest SSD of the P510 budget, along with this shiny novel E31T controller, well, I just couldn’t resist.

Now, for clarity, P510 is not the first disk that I tested with the E31T controller. Not a long way. Both Corsair’s MP700 Elite Elite and Koxia Exteria Plus G4 equally inside. However, the difference is the form of a flash. While Corsair and Koxia utilize the same 218-layer TLC BICS8 solution, Crucial went internally and instead gathered his own Micron 276-Wayer TLC NAND. Far denser and technically much faster memory, at least on paper, and this makes this disk engaging.

The great advantage, which is of key importance for this NAND, is mainly to the price. Because he does not go to the third side for a flash, there are no average fees here that you can deal with, and logistics problems do not exist. In fact, higher densities theoretically (after covering expenses for research and development) also reduce production costs, because you effectively pack more bits into a smaller space, also saving time for material and production time.

It is also for this reason; The key P510, in terms of 1 TB capacity, is only $ 100. The elite slides of the Corsair MP700 for $ 110, and well, I will let you know about Koxia when the 1 TB variant lands in the United States.

However, we must remember this here. P510 is an effective budget SSD line. It was designed to act as Crucial PCIe 5.0 equivalent to a fascinatingly diverse composition of P310. But of course, this is a huge difference now on the PCIe 5.0 standard, and from the premiere it is available in a one -man coefficient of form 2280, which gives a fairly solid interoperability of the platform (a fanciful way to say that now it fits many devices).

So for people from the loop the greatest criticism of Phison (and probably the greatest criticism for most early PCIe 5.0 drives) was the temperature. Most of the flagship units, one of the best SSDs, regularly exceeded temperatures on over 80-year signs. It is heated, seriously heated, and these disks were not productive at the beginning. In fact, they were mandatory so that these early 5.0 disks were equipped with heat -pinned heat to them, or, for early reference models, absurdly annoying a petite fan attached to them; They were so toast.

Phison tries to improve this using the E31T controller. Compared to the E26 variant (controller introduced to the market with these flagship units), 31T is transferred to the design without armpit and completely moved the production process from the 12 Nm TSMC node to the 7 Nm node, dramatically improving efficiency and reducing the process temperature. Phison also lowered the maximum total capacity in half, reducing it to four -channel architecture, and what he leads to are disks that are extremely cooler than their first generation counterparts also with comparable speeds, although not as closing as those in the upper part of the spectrum. Contemporary flagship flagship, such as SN8100 WD with a silicon motion controller or own T705 Crulal, still dominate in this arena, although at a much higher temperature as a result of this additional speed.

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So we have the same controller, and at the same time a bit Zippier Nand. What does it lead to? The good news is that sequential performance is beyond the charts. Even for this 1 TB configuration, I have a test here, in Crystaldiskmark it breaks and roars at 10 973 Mb/s on reading and 9 394 Mb/s on the record. It is dramatically faster than both Exteria Plus G4 and Corsaira MP700 Elite, both of which (probably not surprising) amounted to about 10,200 Mb/si 8600 Mb/s, respectively.

However, this is something in which the advantage of Flash Nand Crucial’s memory ends, because random 4K loads are much more ordinary. Take, for example, reading results 1 thread. Corsair 88 Mb/s, Koxia 82 Mb/s, key 84 Mb/s. The writing speeds are even more average, and the key landing is 316 Mb/s. It is relatively a good result, but it is relatively sluggish compared to the other two disks. This also translates into charging. Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers was equally sluggish and also sat in the middle of the package in the 3DMark storage test.

This tells us one thing: that the higher Flash Nand density and improvement of delay do not necessarily translate into faster random 4K performance, and this mainly depends on the performance of the controller and the firmware itself.

Still, this is not a bad thing. Compared to the immense majority of SSD PCIe 5.0, these random 4K results are solid, very good, and the fact that Crucial managed to distinguish this additional sequential speed, comparable to PCIe 5.0 drives with a much greater efficiency, is nothing impressive.

As for temperatures, they were equally beneficial. Slightly higher, yes, at 64 ° C in the examined test; However, there are several variables that we must consider here. First of all, the ambient temperature was three degrees hotter than when testing Koxia, and secondly, P510 has a capacity of 1 TB, not 2 TB, which can potentially affect the rating here (because P510 uses one NAND package, not two). Despite this, I do not expect that this disk will augment above 70 ° C, and if you have it under the disappointment of the motherboard, you will not have a problem at all.

One of the most productive Phison Controllers has successfully taken key so far and combined it with one of the best NAND he has on offer. Yes, isolated with these two other Phison E31T drives, the numbers are not stunning; Random 4K performance is a bit average, and charging times are a bit sluggish (again, relatively), but this additional sequential speed is a welcome addition, and prices are particularly juicy.

P510 reminds me of a lot with long-term 2.5-inch SSDs. Those that broke mold. Those who finally convinced players to leave the world of spiriting plates and jumping into the world of a solid state for their operating system. It has performance, has a capacity and price to finally convey this convincing argument that if you are not on a 5.0 ride for your operating system, you should really.

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