Micron Releases 16nm-Process SSDs With Dynamic Flash Programming

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @08:34AM from the march-of-progress dept.

Lucas123 writes: Micron's newest client flash drive line, the M600, uses its first 16nm process technology and dynamic write acceleration firmware that allows the flash to be programmed as SLC or MLC instead of using overprovisioning or reserving a permanent pool of flash cache to accelerate writes. The ability to dynamically program the flash reduces power use and improves write performance as much as 2.8 times over models without the feature, according to Jon Tanguy, Micron's senior technical marketing engineer. The new lithography process technology also allowed Micron to reduce the price of the flash drive to 45 cents a gigabyte.

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Re: Lifetime at 16nm? by drdread66 · 2014-09-16 08:49 · Score: 4, Informative

I read it. It makes some claims that are not actually related to cell lifetime but rather to tricks they can play with the fancy firmware that allow them to do fewer writes and erases. That has nothing to do with the native cell lifetime.