Mushkin has announced the availability of its first 3d nand memory ssd drives

Mushkin has announced the availability on the market of its first SSD drives made with 3D NAND memory technology that offers a much higher storage density, with this it can offer drives with a remarkable capacity and more aggressive prices although the low availability of NAND chips makes prices higher than they should be.

Mushkin ARMOR3D and Triactor 3D

Mushkin ARMOR3D is the replacement of the previous Mushkin Reactor and is characterized by being one of the cheapest discs that are based on NAND MLC memory technology, remember that most of the models on the market have opted for the inclusion of TLC memory that It allows to reduce manufacturing costs although its durability is significantly lower. The new Mushkin ARMOR3D disks continue to bet on the Silicon Motion SM2258 controller, although this time it is accompanied by 3D NAND MLC memory manufactured by Micron, specifically, 32-layer memory is used instead of the most modern 64-layer memory. On the other hand we have the Mushkin Triactor 3D that makes the leap to the use of 3D TLC memory to try to offer a more attractive solution in terms of sale price.

SSD drives with TLC vs MLC memories

The hardware components that we can find in the new Mushkin ARMOR3D are very similar to those present in the ADATA SU800, SU900 and XPG SX950 since they are based on the same controller and the same memory, therefore the differences will be mainly due to the firmware that each manufacturer has implemented. Prices have not been announced.

Mushkin Reactor ARMOR3D and Triactor 3D
	ARMOR3D reactor	3D triactor
Capacity	240 GB - 960 GB	512 GB, 1 TB
Controller	Silicon Motion SM2258
NAND Flash	Micron 3D MLC NAND	Micron 3D TLC NAND
Form factor	2.5 ″ 7mm SATA
Sequential reading	Up to 565 MB / s
Sequential writing	Up to 510 MB / s	Up to 525 MB / s
IOPS read	Up to 80k IOPS
IOPS write	Up to 80k IOPS	Up to 82k IOPS
Pseudo-SLC Caching	Supported
DRAM Buffer	Yes
TCG Opal encryption	Do not
Energy management	DevSleep
Warranty	3 years
Time before failure	1, 500, 000 hours

Source: anandtech