Having been round storage and strong state drives for a number of years, we are able to communicate with some authority that consumer SSDs present in PC programs, laptops and extremely books paled compared to these retail SSDs being examined. I can keep in mind our evaluate of the Dell XPS 13 Gold Version in truth, the place the efficiency spoke to 1500MB/s learn and solely 300MB/s write. Shopper SSDs differed a bit again then the place their efficiency was held again in an effort to make them as broadly suitable as attainable. It was really no completely different with retail SSDs the place reviewers may pull speeds a lot greater than specified from their samples with only a little bit of tweaking. The hassle to make sure mass compatibility hindered knowledge switch speeds. Not as we speak although. Instances have modified.
We obtained a pattern of the Micron 3500 1TB Shopper SSD final week and it got here on this Pelican R40 waterproof, dustproof, shockproof ruck case. Relatively unique we thought. The Micron 3500 is a Shopper SSD which implies you can’t readily purchase it proper off the shelf, though it’s possible you’ll discover this extraordinarily just like our Essential T500 Professional Gen 4 SSD Overview we posted final month. The 2 are just about similar and that may be a excellent begin, contemplating we would class the T500 Professional as among the finest SSDs we have now ever had on our Take a look at Bench. Simply as a little bit of a aspect be aware, Essential and Micron are completely different enterprise models of the identical firm, Micron Know-how.
The Micron 3500 is a PCIe 4.0 (Gen4) x4 (4-lane) M.2 2280 (22mm vast x 80mm lengthy) SSD that runs on the NVMe 2.0 protocol. It’s primarily based on a 4-channel structure which usually implies that it will be extra value-centric than many different 8-channel consumer SSDs when pre-configured programs are bought. There was a time when the web would mild up the second anybody beneficial the acquisition of a 4-channel SSD, these instances having smoothed out through the years. This SSD will put any such concepts to relaxation fully whether it is something just like the T500 Professional. It’s. Actually, this SSD stands above an amazing many 8-channel SSDs as will be seen in our comparability charts all through this report.
The Micron 3500 is predicated on the Phison PS5025 4-channel NVMe SSD controller, comprises two items of Micron’s 232-Layer TLC 2400MT B58R NAND flash reminiscence with a RAW worth of 512GB every, in addition to a single piece of 1024MB LPDDR4 Micron DRAM.
The 3500 is accessible in 512GB, 1TB and 2TB capacities and efficiency speaks to 7GB/s learn and variable write speeds of 5.1GB/s (512GB), 6.9GB/s (1TB) and 7GB/s for the 2TB model. IOPS learn and write are listed at 680K/700K (512GB), 1050K/1150K (1TB) and 1150K for each learn and write of the 2TB capability. Endurance begins at 300TBW for the 512GB model and doubles for each dimension bounce after that. This SSD has a 3-year producers guarantee.
