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Micron Announces a QLC SSD Just Weeks After Killing Its Beloved Crucial Brand — the 3610 Is a Basic Gen5...

Micron unveiled the 3610, a PCIe Gen5 QLC SSD, at CES 2026, marking its first Gen5 G9 QLC client drive and the first single‑sided M.2 2230 offering up to 4 TB. The drive claims sequential reads up to 11 GB/s and writes up to 9.3 GB/s, with random IOPS scaling with capacity and endurance ranging from 400 TBW to 1 600 TBW. Launched weeks after Micron announced the retirement of its Crucial consumer brand, the 3610 targets ultra‑thin laptops and AI‑ready workloads, though its DRAM‑less architecture could limit sustained performance.