PHISON – Crucial P510 NVMe SSD Testbericht

“Name a better pairing than Micron and Phison. I’ll wait. PB&J? Penn and Teller? Not a chance. That fateful mix of Micron flash and Phison controller has delivered some absolutely scorchingly fast SSDs over the years. From the T500 to the T705, it’s a company that’s gone from strength to strength, delivering some exceptional storage off the back of Phison’s impressive controller tech. When the big blue boys reached out and offered me a chance to review its latest P510 budget SSD, complete with that shiny new E31T controller, well, I just couldn’t resist.

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Phison’s trying to correct that with its E31T controller. Compared to its E26 variant (the controller launched with those flagship units), the 31T moves to a cacheless design and has entirely shifted the manufacturing process from TSMC’s 12 nm node to its 7 nm node instead, dramatically improving efficiency and reducing temps in the process. Phison’s also cut the max total bandwidth in half, reducing it to a quad-channel architecture as well, and what that leads to are drives that are remarkably cooler than their first-gen counterparts with comparable speeds as well, albeit not quite as zippy as those at the top end of the spectrum. Modern-day flagships, like WD’s SN8100 with its Silicon Motion controller or Crucial’s own T705, still dominate that arena, albeit with considerably higher temps as a result of that extra speed.

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Crucial has effectively taken one of Phison’s most efficient controllers to date and paired it with some of the best NAND that it has on offer. Yes, when isolated with those two other Phison E31T drives, the numbers aren’t mind-blowing; random 4K performance is kind of average, and load times are a little sluggish (again, relatively), but that extra sequential speed is a welcome addition, and the pricing is particularly juicy.”- pcgamer.com

Quelle: pcgamer.com