Micron’s 3500 1TB SSD would possibly simply be among the many finest SSDs ever made – if not the perfect – having scored 100% on TweakTown and profitable its extremely coveted Editor’s Alternative Award.
Launched in December 2023, this 232-layer NAND SSD, which adopts a M.2 2280 kind issue, is available in at 512GB, 1TB and 2TB variations, and includes a excellent Phison E25 controller that may also be discovered within the Essential T500 SSD.
The controller fitted into the M3500 additionally options four-channel PICe Gen4 connectivity, which makes it exceptional given its stellar performs when stacked up towards eight-channel options.
‘An absolute masterpiece of engineering’
Essential is Micron’s retail arm, for reference, whereas Micron builds the SSDs for unique gear producers (OEMs). The Essential T500 and Micron 3500 differ barely in that the latter is configured particularly to be offered with specific {hardware} items, like these you’d discover in our roundups of the perfect PCs or the perfect workstations.
The Micron 3500 SSD affords sequential reads and writes of as much as 7,000 MB/s and 6,900 MB/s respectively, in line with the producer, with testing utilizing CystalDiskMark corroborating these figures.
It performs extremely succesful in a bunch of benchmarks – from computing to gaming – and, importantly, this OEM SSD would not underperform considerably when put next towards its retail model – the Essential T500. In truth, it is on par in nearly all benchmarks, regardless of being constrained barely to fulfill OEM necessities.
It is so highly effective, actually, that it beats nearly each eight-channel PCIe Gen4 SSD on the market, with solely the Samsung 990 Professional able to beating it if it is configured to run in full energy mode.
Finally, TweakTown heralds the unit as “an absolute masterpiece of engineering”, including: “Capable of vanquish 99.99% of all 8-channel managed PCIe Gen4 SSDs with half the channels is well essentially the most spectacular feat we have ever witnessed from any SSD at any time.”
