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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Lifetime at 16nm? by drdread66 · 2014-09-16 08:38 · Score: 4, Insightful

Seems like the durability of flash cells decreases with every process shrink. It makes me wonder what the lifetime of this new stuff will be. A 10% reduction in cost is no bargain if it comes with a 10% reduction in lifetime.