Micron Launches World's Most Advanced Client SSD Using 232-Layer NAND Technology

Micron Launches World's Most Advanced Client SSD Using 232-Layer NAND Technology

New Micron 2550 SSD brings extraordinary PCIe 4.0 performance and excellent user experience

December 15, 2022, Shanghai, China - Micron Technology, Inc. recently announced that it has shipped Micron 2550 NVMe™ solid-state drives (SSDs) for mainstream laptops and desktops to global PC original equipment manufacturer (OEM) customers. The 2550 is the world's first client SSD using 200+ layer NAND technology. It outperforms competitors in terms of performance[ ] with its storage density and power consumption advantages. Its excellent responsiveness and low power consumption can help users extend the battery life of work and home PCs.

“We are committed to delivering an exceptional experience for PC users with the new 2550 SSD,” said Praveen Vaidyanathan, Micron vice president and general manager of Client Storage. “It is based on our proven and widely adopted PCIe 4.0 architecture, and leverages Micron’s industry-leading 232-layer NAND technology, enhanced thermal architecture and low-power design. These features deliver exceptional application performance and significant energy savings.”

The Micron 2550 SSD improves application speed and responsiveness on mainstream PC platforms, including gaming, consumer and commercial clients. Micron’s innovative predictive cache optimization technology improves the user experience and sets new category records in the PCMark® 10 [2] benchmark. Compared to competitive products, the 2550 SSD transfers files 112% faster, runs productivity applications 67% faster, loads mainstream games 57% faster, and runs content creation applications 78% faster. It also features blazing-fast sequential read performance of up to 5GB/s and sequential write performance of 4GB/s, which are 43% and 33% faster, respectively, than the previous generation SSD.

Micron achieves energy savings through a variety of techniques, including optimizing entry and exit of auto-start power-saving states, using advanced process nodes in controllers, and replacing DRAM with host memory buffer (HMB) technology. These innovations enable devices to consume less than 2.5 milliwatts of power in sleep mode, less than 150 milliwatts of power in idle mode, and less than 5.5 watts of power in active mode . Reduced power consumption extends battery life to meet daily computing needs.

“We expect PCIe 4.0 SSDs to remain a staple in laptops and desktops through 2026,” said Greg Wong, principal analyst at Forward Insights . “PCIe 4.0 SSDs, such as the new 2550, deliver cutting-edge performance for a better user experience and provide a compelling storage solution for OEMs’ system designs.”

The Micron 2550 SSD is available in 22x80mm, 22x42mm and 22x30mm form factors and 256GB, 512GB and 1TB capacities. This wide range of options provides system designers with great flexibility to build PC products with different combinations of performance, size, weight and capacity.