There's one thing that budget-sector and massive-capacity SSDs have in common, and it's the type of memory chips they use. They both commonly sport QLC NAND flash, which is great for price and storage, but not so hot for performance. Micron reckons it has the solution to this in the form of a new flash chip that can adaptively work in SLC, TLC, or QLC mode, giving you the best of each world, while minimising the worst parts.
The world's third-largest producer of RAM and SSD chips, after Samsung and SK Hynix, has launched its new NAND flash in the form of its Micron 2600 NVMe range of SSDs. While these might look like any other speedy storage stick you can pop into your gaming PC or handheld device, their secret sauce is Micron's Adaptive Write Technology.
