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What if you find your laptop or notebook with an incredible SSD which can astoundingly store 10TB of data? Your eyes will be on stalks for sure if it happens and it will also knock your socks off when you got to know the reason behind it. Two companies, Intel and Micron has come together and developed a new and incredible 3D NAND flash memory which will push your SSD storage to 10TB. Both tech giants have dropped a bombshell on Thursday morning when announced this 3D stacked memory.
Both companies took the initiative to build chips which won’t go large-and-large to enhance capacity, though they went high to touch the sky of highest capacity. Using floating gate cells design in 3D flash memory, both tech majors just did a double take. Though, it’s not a big deal in standard flash.
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NAND has been stacked vertically to achieve boasting capacity without enlarging the chip size. To obtain 256Gbit multilevel cell (MLC) and 384Gbit triple-level cell (TLC) die, flash cells in 3D NAND technology are stacked vertically in 32 layers like skyscraper. It won’t only increase the capacity, but the performance, durability, and endurance will also be enhanced for this new stacked memory.
Eventually, this new technology is capable in beating the current flash memory with it’s 3 times better capacity than today’s. This 3D NAND flash memory is capable in boosting the capacity of standard 2.5-inch SATA drive upto 10TB and the gumstick sized SSDs which are mostly used in laptops can be reached to 3.5TB. 10TB is just overwhelming for such kind of SSD.
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Comprehensively, this new technology reduces the cost instead of having fast random read performance and bandwidth. Sampling of 256Gb MLC version of 3D NAND has already begun by Micron with select partners.
Intel and Micron thought to enhance the performance and reduce the cost as well for future devices and brought this new 3D NAND Stacked Flash Memory. It is expected that the mass production will begin in second quarter of 2015.
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Source: pcworld.com
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