The NAND flash drive has a speed of up to 95,000 input/output operations per second. The drive’s sequential speeds reach up to 550Mbyte/s for reads and 500Mbyte/s writes, which maxes out the capabilities of the SATA 6 Gb/s interface.

Dubbed the Crucial brand the M550 2.5-inch SSD is offered in 128GB, 256GB, 512GB and 1TB capacities.

The flash devices are 20nm multilevel cell (MLC) NAND. The M550 integrates Marvell’s 88SS9189 SSD controller.

The smaller M.2 and mSATA form factors will be available later this year, in capacities up to 512Gbyte.