Micron’s consumer brand, Crucial Micron at CES Memory. Therefore, has been increasingly focused on the SSD market over the past few quarters. The brand. Therefore, has been marketing entry-level QLC drives for 2018 – 2022. Recently. Attention. Therefore, has also been paid to modern SSDs – both internal .(such as the Gen4 T500 and Gen5 T700) and external (such as the X10 Pro). Vertical integration, along with Micron being the first flash manufacturer to achieve volume production of 200+ layers of 3D NAND. Has been critical to Crucial’s success in these segments.
The USB4 desktop SSD Micron at CES
At CES 2024, Micron hosted several Fax Lists exciting demonstrations of its USB4 SSD technology for vendors/partners. Therefore, and invited media. These are essentially products in development . with no guarantee that they will make it to market in their current form . Both products. Therefore, are bridge-based solutions for USB4 to NVMe accessory controller. The key update on the popular ASM2364 (USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 upstream and PCIe 3.0 x4 downstream) is the switch to a 40 Gbit/s upstream port. Along with a PCIe 4 x4.0 link downstream.
The current crop of USB4 SSDs
Similar configurations (bridge + DRAM-equipped M.2 SSD) such AOB DIRECTORY as the SanDisk. Extreme PRO v2 (E81) gave excellent. Therefore, overall performance. Therefore a wide range of workloads. We expect the same to continue in the USB4 era. That. Therefore, said, vendors like ADATA, who use the same bridge. Have opted for active cooling to avoid thermal stress on their USB4 PSSDs. It remains to be seen if this design will remain fanless in its final form (and if so, thermal performance will be an interesting aspect to analyze).
