Micron announced that it has begun shipping 232-layer TLC NAND. The new NAND will surely find the way to the fastest SSDs on the market, including Micron’s Crucial branded SSDs. The new NAND delivers 100% higher write bandwidth, more than 75% higher read bandwidth, 50% increase in transfer speed, and 28% reduction in package size.
according to micron (Opens in a new tab) (((Via Digitimes (Opens in a new tab)This means that these state-of-the-art NAND dies are smaller, faster and denser than any other die on the market. Suitable for everything from high-end consumer SSDs to mobile and data center applications.
Scott Devore, Executive Vice President of Technology and Products at Micron, said: “This breakthrough technology includes a wide range of innovations, including advanced process capabilities for creating high aspect ratio structures, advances in new materials, and state-of-the-art design enhancements based on market-leading 176-layer NAND technology. Was needed. “
High-performance enterprise products are the first to hit the market, but this new NAND density increase should lead to more affordable and larger capacity drives in the future. Being able to pack more chips into a particular form factor means that enterprise SSDs with capacities over 100TB (which you care about for tens of thousands of dollars) will be possible, but in the consumer market. , Drives in the range of 4TB and above should be within the price range, the range of mainstream buyers.
Despite all the good news and possibilities, the question remains about durability and reliability. Micron makes no mention of durability ratings, and while these numbers are important to the enterprise market, they are less important to the mainstream and gaming markets, where reading is more important than writing.
This NAND is not immediate, but can be expected to be used in future PCIe 5.0 SSDs. Western Digital and Samsung use their own in-house NAND, but in the future they will be driven by the Phison PS5026-E26 controller (Opens in a new tab) It certainly contains 232 layers of NAND. Many of the best PCIe 4.0 drives include Micron 176 layer NAND, including the excellent Seagate Barracuda 530. (Opens in a new tab) And Silicon Power XS70 (Opens in a new tab) Above all. It’s only natural to assume that you will use the best components available to the manufacturer.
PCIe 5.0 drives are coming soon and are known to provide mega-sequential performance in the short term, even without Micron’s 232-layer NAND. But does it provide all the important reads and random performance that are important to gamers? You’ll know right away.
