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The portable SSD market has seen rapid growth over the last decade. Almost all of the tier-one NAND flash manufacturers have jumped in with multiple offerings, presenting consumers with a wide variety of choices for different budgets and performance requirements. Crucial (Micron's consumer-facing brand) alone has introduced three new products in this category this year - the X9 Pro (1 GBps-class TLC), X10 Pro (2 GBps-class TLC), and the X9 (1 GBps-class QLC) PSSDs. Micron provided us with an opportunity to evaluate the X10 Pro across all available capacity points. Read on for a detailed analysis of the performance profile and value proposition of each X10 Pro SKU.
Micron M510DC (480GB) Enterprise SATA SSD Review
Most data center workloads tend to be read-intensive. It's only recently that SSDs have started to offer pricing low enough to replace hard drives in read workoads and a...
22 by Kristian Vättö on 7/21/2015
Crucial BX100 (120GB, 250GB, 500GB & 1TB) SSD Review
Crucial has been doing very well in the client SSD market during the past year. Crucial's/Micron's ability to quickly roll out the 16nm NAND node definitely paid off because...
67 by Kristian Vättö on 4/10/2015
Estimating Intel-Micron 32-layer 3D NAND Die Size
Yesterday Intel and Micron shared some new details of their 3D NAND technology and during the presentation they also showed a production wafer. I missed the wafer during the...
36 by Kristian Vättö on 3/27/2015
Intel-Micron Share Additional Details of Their 3D NAND
Today must be the busiest day in the world of NAND. Earlier today, Toshiba announced that it has begun sampling of its 48-layer 128Gbit 3D NAND part and now...
35 by Kristian Vättö on 3/26/2015
Intel's 3D NAND to Ship in H2'15: 256Gbit Die & 32 Layers
Last Thursday in its annual Investor Meeting Intel revealed the first details of its 3D NAND technology and announced that it will begin the shipments of 3D NAND in...
58 by Kristian Vättö on 11/25/2014
Micron M600 (128GB, 256GB & 1TB) SSD Review
Those that have been following the SSD industry for a couple of years are likely aware that Micron does not sell retail drives under its own brand (unlike, e.g...
56 by Kristian Vättö on 9/29/2014
Micron Launches M600 Client SSD for OEMs/SIs
Micron/Crucial has been one of the go-to manufacturers for value client SSDs during the past couple of years, but the one thing that the company has lacked is a...
15 by Kristian Vättö on 9/16/2014
Computex 2014: Crucial Shows Ballistix Elite DDR4
Obviously one of the biggest topics of Computex this year is DDR4. Crucial will be bringing their DDR4 to the consumer market under the Ballistix Elite brand with speeds...
25 by Kristian Vättö on 6/4/2014
Crucial MX100 (256GB & 512GB) Review
Computex is officially kicking off today and unlike many of the products announced at trade shows, we actually have a full review of the Crucial MX100 that is launching...
50 by Kristian Vättö on 6/2/2014
Micron M500DC (480GB & 800GB) Review
While the client SSD space has become rather uninteresting lately, the same cannot be said of the enterprise segment. The types of workloads in the enterprise world can require...
37 by Kristian Vättö on 4/22/2014
Crucial M550 Review: 128GB, 256GB, 512GB and 1TB Models Tested
In what is shaping up to be one of the most exciting months for SSDs in quite some time, we've seen Intel's new flagship SSD 730 just a couple...
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Crucial Showing DDR4 Modules and Sport VLP DDR3
I’m nearly finished with my CES coverage (thanks to a relapse as well as a household of sick family members), with just a few final visits to discuss. My...
29 by Jarred Walton on 1/21/2014
Rambus and Micron Bury the Hatchet; All Memory Players Now License Rambus Tech
Bringing an end to a saga that has spanned over a decade and most of the life of this site, what’s widely considered the final major legal battle between...
32 by Ryan Smith on 12/11/2013
Micron Announces 16nm 128Gb MLC NAND, SSDs in 2014
Earlier today Micron announced its first 16nm MLC NAND device. The 128Gbit device is architecturally identical to the current 20nm/128Gbit 2-bit-per-cell MLC device that's shipping today but smaller. That...
10 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/16/2013
Micron P420m Announced: MLC PCIe SSD
Nearly two years ago Micron announced its first native PCIe SSD: the P320h. We finally got to review it over a year later. In the time between announcement and...
5 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/2/2013
Hardware Accelerated BitLocker Encryption: Microsoft Windows 8 eDrive Investigated with Crucial M500
Most modern SSDs come with some form of hardware encryption. On these drives with hardware encryption, it’s usually permanently turned on - all data written to the NAND is...
46 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/10/2013
The Crucial/Micron M500 Review (960GB, 480GB, 240GB, 120GB)
This is probably the most excited I've been about any SSD launch in quite a while. At CES this year, Crucial announced its M500 SSD - the world's first...
111 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/9/2013
Micron P400m Review (200GB)
Micron has remained one of the more stable players in the SSD space over the past few years. Although not typically at the top of our charts, Micron (and...
24 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/13/2013
Micron and TE Connectivity Offer New Ultrathin DRAM Solutions
The push for smaller and thinner laptops, Ultrabooks, and tablets of late has come with some potentially undesirable side effects, namely the loss of flexibility. Of the Ultrabooks we’ve...
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Crucial Demonstrates DDR4-2133 Modules
We’re not likely to be running DDR4 any time soon on desktops, and even most laptops are probably over a year away from getting the upgrade, but now is...
22 by Jarred Walton on 1/10/2013
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