Micron 3500 NVMe™ SSD

The Micron 3500 SSD user experience leads the competition and allows professional and scientific users to discover new insights in an instant, with the best SPECwpcSM benchmark scores among competitive SSDs.

Speed past the competition with superior game load times, or create content faster and improve productivity with industry-leading PCMark 10 benchmark scores.

Stand out from the crowd with the world’s first client performance SSD to feature 200+ layer NAND, which helps boost performance and deliver the best user experience in its class.

Key features

• Micron® 3D TLC NAND Flash
• PCIe® Gen4 x4
• NVMe 2.0c
  • Number of namespaces supported: 1
  • Round robin arbitration: not weighted
  • Autonomous power state transitions
• TCG/Pyrite 2.02-compliant non-self-encrypting drive (non-SED)
• TCG/Opal 2.01-compliant self-encrypting drive (SED)
• Capacity (unformatted)1: 512GB, 1024GB, 2048GB
• Endurance: Total bytes written (TBW)
  • Up to 1200TB
• Industry-standard 512 byte sector size support
• Security
  • Digitally signed firmware
• Self-monitoring, analysis, and reporting technology (SMART)
• Device self-test
• Power loss protection for data-at-rest
• Power loss signal support
• Performance
  • Sequential 128KB READ: Up to 7000 MB/s
  • Sequential 128KB WRITE: Up to 7000 MB/s
  • Random 4KB READ: Up to 1,150,000 IOPS
  • Random 4KB WRITE: Up to 1,150,000 IOPS
• Latency
  • Read (TYP): 50 µs
  • Write (TYP): 12 µs
• Reliability
  • MTTF: 2 million device hours
  • Static and dynamic wear leveling
  • Uncorrectable bit error rate (UBER): <1 sector per
    1015 bits read
• Operating temperature
  • Commercial (0°C to +70°C)
  • System management bus temperature monitoring (SMBus)
• Field upgradeable firmware
  • Firmware activation without reset
• Form factor
  • M.2 Type 2280
• Electrical specification
  • Power supply: 3.3V ±5%

Benefits

• Discover new insights in an instant for professional and scientific computing
  Gain faster time to insights and improved productivity in professional computing, such as product development, scientific computing, medical research, media development, energy industry applications and more.
• Level up your game with the industry's leading SSD for client PC gaming and content creation
  Create content faster with up to 38% better performance scores in PCMark 10. Experience up to 40% better sequential write and up to 6% better sequential read performance than the competition.
• Rise above the competition with the world’s first 200+ layer NAND in a high-performance client SSD
  Micron’s 232-layer NAND helps improve performance and power efficiency. The innovative NAND low-voltage interface delivers 30% per-bit energy transfer savings, resulting in lower power consumption for the Micron 3500 SSD. The NAND includes a six-plane architecture that features independent read capability from each plane, allowing for simultaneous reads for the fastest possible access to your data.