Micron’s 3500 1TB SSD would possibly simply be among the many greatest SSDs ever made – if not one of the best – having scored 100% on TweakTown and profitable its extremely coveted Editor’s Alternative Award.
Launched in December 2023, this 232-layer NAND SSD, which adopts a M.2 2280 kind issue, is available in at 512GB, 1TB and 2TB variations, and contains a excellent Phison E25 controller that may also be discovered within the Essential T500 SSD.
The controller fitted into the M3500 additionally options four-channel PICe Gen4 connectivity, which makes it exceptional given its stellar performs when stacked up in opposition to eight-channel alternate options.
‘An absolute masterpiece of engineering’
Essential is Micron’s retail arm, for reference, whereas Micron builds the SSDs for unique gear producers (OEMs). The Essential T500 and Micron 3500 differ barely in that the latter is configured particularly to be bought with specific {hardware} items, like these you’d discover in our roundups of one of the best PCs or one of the best workstations.
The Micron 3500 SSD presents sequential reads and writes of as much as 7,000 MB/s and 6,900 MB/s respectively, in accordance with the producer, with testing utilizing CystalDiskMark corroborating these figures.
It performs extremely succesful in a number of benchmarks – from computing to gaming – and, importantly, this OEM SSD would not underperform considerably compared in opposition to its retail model – the Essential T500. In actual fact, it is on par in virtually all benchmarks, regardless of being constrained barely to satisfy OEM necessities.
It is so highly effective, in reality, that it beats virtually each eight-channel PCIe Gen4 SSD on the market, with solely the Samsung 990 Professional able to beating it if it is configured to run in full energy mode.
In the end, TweakTown heralds the unit as “an absolute masterpiece of engineering”, including: “Capable of vanquish 99.99% of all 8-channel managed PCIe Gen4 SSDs with half the channels is definitely essentially the most spectacular feat we have ever witnessed from any SSD at any time.”
