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Micron 7600 TAA Compliance: What Aerospace and Defense Buyers Need to Know

Posted by Justin Giannone on June 10, 2026 at 2:54 PM

When a defense program needs PCIe Gen5 NVMe performance on a TAA-compliant bill of materials, two questions land on the buyer's desk at the same time: Is the Micron 7600 available as a TAA-compliant SKU? And who can supply it with the paperwork a government contract actually requires?

The Micron 7600 is available with a TAA-compliant country of origin (COO), and Edge Electronics has been an authorized Micron distributor since 1990. This guide walks through what TAA compliance means for the 7600 specifically, which variants support it, and how Edge handles the documentation, the part-number review, and the follow-through that aerospace and defense programs require.

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Topics: Micron, Memory, SSDs, Authorized Distributor

Why you should move your SSD designs from SATA to NVMe in 2021

Posted by Keith Peterson on June 7, 2021 at 9:48 AM

SATA SSDs have been popular for a long time as a replacement for HDDs

Around the turn of the century disk drive manufacturers started the transformation of previous disk drive interfaces to SATA. If your application was boot drive or system disk, the choice for interface for one drive would be SATA. In 2008, advancements had been made on the SATA interface to reach speeds of 600 megabytes per second (MB/s) which was referred to as SATA III.

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Topics: Micron, SSDs, Storage

Upgrade from Micron's EOL 1300 Solid State Drives to 5300 Series SSDs

Posted by Keith Peterson on February 24, 2021 at 4:41 PM

Micron’s 1300 Series Client SATA solid state drives are now End of Life (EOL), and customers are asking about the migration path for SATA SSD users.

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Topics: Micron, SSDs, Storage