Micron's latest SSD could deliver a fatal blow to the HDD

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Icron announced a new SATA SSD, but with a difference;

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is the first to come up with the company 's own layer of NAND technology.

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The announcement comes just days after the US semiconductor giant launched

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a 1.5TB microSD card, the largest in its class, with the same technology.

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The Micron 5400 is the direct successor to the Micron 5300,

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which was launched in October 2019

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uses 96-layer NAND. As such, the 5400 has more evolutions

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than the 5300 in that it retains the same form factor, connectivity, capacity, and performance.

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