Micron is the second among the chip vendors to commercialize 3D NAND which is a unique and innovative approach to reduce the costs. The company has started its production of 32L (32 Layer) 3D NAND flash memory with its presence in Crucial 750 GB SATA 2.5 inch SSD (Solid State Drive) which is one of the first downstream products to be commercialized containing the devices. The speed of the sequential read operation is upto 530 MB/s and that of sequential write operation is upto 510 MB/s. In terms of energy consumption, an improvement factor of 90x is also among the advantages over the typical HDDs (Hard Disk Drives) and the company claims to have increased the durability too!
Crucial SSD
The Crucial SSD, priced around $200, would serve as an attractive option for a wide range of gadgets including laptops as it is now common to see computers with SSDs specifications instead of earlier HDDs. Although HDDs are not much popular nowadays, but still they are expected to dominate the sales market in the near future as they continue to impress by their technological improvements and also being cheaper than SSDs.
Comparing the Crucial 750 GB SSD to Samsung’s T3 2 TB SSD, the former has eight of the Micron NAND which is twice of the four 42L 3D NAND packages in the latter. Thus, Samsung is the leader in terms of memory bits per package. But, at the die level, Samsung manages to put 16 dies into each of its NAND packages whereas Crucial 750 GB SSD contains eight Micron packages with 2 dies per package in the same.
Read more about the details of Crucial SSD and its comparison with Samsung’s SSD with their pictures giving a closer look into the actual specifications of Micron’s SSD and NAND cells as well as arrays.