Micron Technology, Inc. today announced that it is shipping Micron 2550 NVMe solid-state drives to PC OEM customers worldwide for use in mainstream notebooks and desktops. Using 232 layers of NAND technology, the Micron 2550 SSD is the world’s first consumer SSD (client SSD) to use more than 200 layers of NAND.
We are focused on delivering a superior user experience to PC users with this SSD,” said Praveen Vaidyanathan, vice president and general manager of Micron’s Customer Storage Division. The new 2550 SSD is built on our established and widely adopted PCIe Gen4 architecture. It also features Micron’s industry-leading 232 layers of NAND and focuses on thermal architecture and power design. These capabilities provide impressive application performance and amazing energy savings.”
Officials say the Micron 2550 SSD transfers files 112 percent faster, runs office productivity applications 67 percent faster, loads mainstream games 57 percent faster and runs content creation applications 78 percent faster than competitive products. It also delivers amazing sequential read performance of up to 5GB bytes per second and sequential write performance of up to 4GB bytes per second, 1.4 and 1.3 times faster than previous generation SSDs, respectively.
Micron’s optimizations for entering and exiting self-starting power-saving states, the use of advanced process nodes for the host, and the elimination of DRAM through host memory buffer (HMB) technology combine to achieve battery sleep power consumption of less than 2.5 milliwatts, active idle power consumption of less than 150 milliwatts, and active power consumption of less than 5.5 watts.
The Micron 2550 SSD is available in 22x80mm, 22x42mm and 22x30mm form factors and in 256GB, 512GB and 1TB capacities, and the price of the product has not yet been announced.
