Micron Introduces Crucial P5 Nvme SSDs With TLC NAND And Dram Cache – Computer – News

Micron is introducing a new series of SSDs under its Crucial brand name. The P5 series is equipped with TLC nand memory and has a controller with dram cache. There will be variants of 250GB, 500GB, 1TB and 2TB.

Which controller the P5 SSDs Micron does not report. However, according to the announcement, it is a controller with dram cache. Also have the SSDs dynamic write acceleration and on-board hardware encryption. The P5 series consists of PCI-e 3.0 SSDs in the m2-2280 format. The sequential read and write speeds are, according to the manufacturer, more than 3GB / s for the versions from 500GB.

The P5 SSDs are positioned above the Crucial P2 series. That is a series of budget SSDs with qlc-nand that Micron recently released. The P5 SSDs are faster and have a longer lifespan. The manufacturer has not yet published recommended prices for the new SSDs.

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