It might not be the 1990s anymore (that’s the late 1900s to the Gen Zers), but that doesn’t mean console gaming is done and dusted, no sir. We’ve seen a whole slew of handheld gaming PCs arise over the last couple of years, and with it, a positive boom in the number of folk on the hunt to expand their storage on these plucky little devices too. After all what’s the point of picking up a handheld gaming PC if you can’t, you know, play all your favorite games on it when you’re on the move.
It’s a bit of a complicated mess, that said, the number of handhelds that support the M.2 2230 form factor is numerous, yet with an armada of PCIe drives out there, all touting different hardware configurations in the tiniest of form-factors, finding the right drive is, well, challenging. Crucial’s P310 2TB is breaking the mold a little bit on this one though. Not only is this thing radically affordable, coming in at just $220 for a 2 TB number it also delivers some stellar bursts of performance as it does so regardless of the PCIe spec it’s plugged into. Although with some fairly hefty caveats.
