Western Digital and its subsidiary SanDisk have launched consumer SSDs using 64-layer 3D NAND technology at Computex 2017.

“Delivering 64-layer 3D NAND-based SSDs into the PC segment marks a critical step in our ongoing conversion to this new technology,” said Western Digital.

WD Blue and SanDisk 64-layer 3D NAND SSDs will be available in 250GB, 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB capacities in a 2.5-inch form factor.

WD Blue 3D NAND SSDs will also be available in an M.2 2280 form factor using a SATA interface.

The new drives feature read and write speeds of 560MB/s and 530MB/s respectively, and have a mean-time-to-failure of 1.75 million hours.

SanDisk and WD Blue 3D NAND SSDs will be priced from $100 and are set to launch in Q3 2017.

This article first appeared on MyBroadband and is republished with permission.

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