The Micron 3500 SSD joins a great lineup of NAND flash-based internal storage. Its performance is 7 Gbytes per second, while its capacity is up to 2 Tbytes.

Micron is one of the world’s leading memory manufacturers and released the sixth generation, the so-called 232-layer 3D TLC NANDwhich are used in this version for internal storage and also in other external ones from their brands, Crucial X9 Pro and Crucial X10 Pro.

The Micron 3500 SSD is offered in the M.2 2280 format (22×80 mm) and has support for the latest version of the NVMe protocol, 2.0c. However, it doesn’t jump to PCIe 5.0 and stays in Gen4. It is strange that large companies in this sector, such as Samsung, WD or Kioxia, continue to release these versions without making the leap to the latest generation. In any case, his performance is high, reaching 7000 MB per second in sequential read/write modes and up to 1150 4K IOPS in random mode.

Micron will sell these drives in 512 GB, 1 and 2 Tbyte capacities. Their durability rating goes up to 1200 Tbytes written and they have support for 256-bit AES and TCG Opal hardware encryption. It is also compatible with DirectStoragea feature that speeds up the loading of supported games if you install it on Windows systems.

No price was provided for these Micron 3500 SSDs, although they should be economical considering the wide range of SSDs. And it would be a good idea to take the leap to those that use PCIe 5.0, the latest and fastest, as they reach a performance of up to 14,000 Mbytes per second. As you know, these models need to use the latest Intel or AMD platforms to reach their full potential, they are more expensive than the previous ones, and the problem of temperature rise, requiring at least coolers in all cases to avoid problems, is certainly limiting. edition.