Micron Cranks Up SSD Speed
The next generation of Micron Solid State Drives (SSDs) are going to be super-fast compared to the already very fast SSDs out there. The company has announced that the new P200 RealSSD (servers) and RealSSD C200 (laptops) drives will offer read speeds of up to 250MB/sec. Write speed for the server-oriented P200, which uses single-level cell (SLC) NAND technology, is rated at ‘up to 250MB/sec’ too. Even so, the read/write speeds of 250MB/sec and 100MB/sec for the laptop C200 drives are blistering considering, for instance, that the 128GB SSDs recently announced by Samsung boast read/write speeds of 90MB/sec and 70MB/sec, respectively. The RealSSD C200 drives will be available in 2.5in and 1.8in form factors. The 2.5in C200 will be offered in densities of up to 256GB while the 1.8in will come in capacities ranging from 32GB to 128GB. Dean Klein, vice president of memory system development at Micron commented: “We are seeing SSD interest in a variety of applications where historically hard disk drives have reigned. For many, the most logical place is in notebook computers, but there is incredible value for SSDs in enterprise server systems. With our C200 [laptop] products, we are providing a balanced price to performance solution specifically designed for notebook applications by utilising MLC NAND technology and highly optimised NAND management algorithms.” The C200 drives are sampling now with mass production expected in Q4.-Martin Lynch news storage memory SSD
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