14 DAY TRIAL // It looks like more and more companies are moving on to better and newer semiconductor manufacturing processors, Crucial being one of them, as revealed by its most recent announcement.
That solid state drives have started to use the 2xnm manufacturing processes is not exactly news in and of itself.
Actually, Intel and Micron announced, jointly, that they had developed 25nm-based SSDs about ten days ago.
Considering the advantages inherent in better manufacturing nodes, lower number of write cycles aside, it is no surprise to hear that Crucial has joined its parent company (Micron) in the promotion of 25nm SSDs.
The 2.5-inch form factor is, of course, the shape used in the making of what the outfit calls the m4 series.
They use MLC (multi-level cell) NAND Flash memory chips and have storage capacities of 64 GB, 128 GB, 256 GB and 512 GB, respectively.
All three have MTBF of 1.2 million hours, a random 4kB read and write performance of up to 40,000 and 50,000 IOPS, respectively (20,000 IOPS writing for the 64 GB model) and the SATA 6.0 Gbps interface.
As such, depending on capacity, their read speeds are of 415 MB/s, while writing speeds range between 95 MB/s and 260 MB/s.
"The new Crucial m4 SSD builds on the enormous success of its predecessor, the Crucial RealSSD C300. As a subsidiary of Micron Technology, we're in the unique position of leveraging Micron's NAND development and manufacturing expertise for our Crucial branded SSDs," said Robert Wheadon, worldwide senior product manager.
"These next-generation m4 SSDs offer customers higher capacities and even greater performance at affordable prices."
Those wishing to buy either of the above can go here, although they will have to be willing to part with $129.99 to $999.99.