INTRODUCTION

    PCIe Gen5 SSDs may have been a thing for a while now but we've only now started to see the release of new high-end NAND controller models which have almost entirely eradicated the temperature issues that severely plagued their predecessors. Needless to say, mid-end models were never hindered by this particular issue (at least nowhere near the same degree) and well, it seems that Crucial decided to base their latest P510 SSD line on one such controller.

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    The brand new P510 line of M.2 Gen5 SSDs by Crucial is currently available in two capacities (1/2TB) and with or without a large black heatsink. For the P510 line Crucial has used the DRAM-less PS5031-E31 (E31T) NAND flash controller by Phison which they have paired with their very own (Micron) G9 276-layer 3D TLC NAND flash. The PS5031-E31 (E31T) is a single core, quad-channel PCIe Gen5x4 NVMe 2.0 NAND controller (16 CEs) based on TSMC’s 7nm process technology and packs several features including Phison's 7th generation LDPC ECC & RAID ECC engine with end-to-end data path protection, thermal monitoring, L1.2 low power state and host memory buffer (HMB) architecture support (uses a fraction of your PC's system memory to cache mapping tables). It also fully supports the ASPM/APST low-power consumption mechanisms, real time AES 256-bit encryption, hardware SHA384512 and RSA4096, TCG OPAL 2.01, Pyrite 2.01, Toggle 5.1 and ONFi 5.1. As for warranty Crucial covers all P510 models with a 5-year limited warranty and regarding endurance they report an TBW of 600 for the 1TB capacity and 1200 for the 2TB capacity.