The Crucial P2 was a solid-state drive in the M.2 2280 form factor, launched on April 20th, 2020, that is no longer in production. It was available in capacities ranging from 250 GB to 500 GB. This page reports specifications for the 500 GB variant. With the rest of the system, the Crucial P2 interfaces using a PCI-Express 3.0 x4 connection. The SSD controller is the PS5013-E13-31 from Phison, a DRAM cache is not available. Crucial has installed 176-layer TLC NAND flash on the P2, the flash chips are made by Micron. Please note that this SSD is sold in multiple variants with different NAND flash or controller, which could affect performance, the "Notes" section at the end of this page has more info. To improve write speeds, a pseudo-SLC cache is used, so bursts of incoming writes are handled more quickly. The cache is sized at 24 GB, once it is full, writes complete at 485 MB/s. The P2 is rated for sequential read speeds of up to 2,300 MB/s and 940 MB/s write; random IO reaches 95K IOPS for read and 215K for writes.
At its launch, the SSD was priced at 65 USD. The warranty length is set to five years, which is an excellent warranty period. Crucial guarantees an endurance rating of 300 TBW, a typical value for consumer SSDs.