Micron Announces Fastest SSDs
The guys over at Micron, who bring you some of the fastest memory chips on the market, introduced a new series of RealSSD solid state drives for enterprise computing and notebook applications. According to the official press release, these new SSDs are providing a dramatic improvement in capacity, power and performance for the applications they serve.
“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,” said Dean Klein, vice president of memory system development at Micron.
Micron’s RealSSD P200 family is specifically designed for enterprise computing and comes in densities ranging from 16 gigabytes (GBs) to 128GBs and is available in a standard 2.5-inch form factor. The overall improvements are facilitated through Micron’s high-performance single-level cell (SLC) NAND technology, which allows the P200 series to provide the industry’s fastest 3Gb/s SATA-based sequential read and write speed of up to a maximum of 250 megabytes per second (MB/s).
The RealSSD C200 lineup is aimed at notebook applications. C200 will be available in 2.5-inch and 1.8-inch form factors, with the 2.5-inchers providing densities of up to 256GBs, while the 1.8-inchers offer densities from 32GB up to 128GB. The notebook line provides a read speed of up to 250 MB/s and a write speed of up to 100 MB/s.
“With our C200 products, we are providing a balanced price to performance solution specifically designed for notebook applications by utilizing MLC NAND technology and highly optimized NAND management algorithms,” continued Klein.
Mass production for both P200 and C200 lineups is expected in the fourth quarter of 2008.
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With technology like this it means that computers can find there way into even more inhospitable environments. You wouldn’t want to send a rover to mars only for it to have a HDD failure when it lands….
Closer to home though many companies are attaching computers to commercial aircraft and vehicles to gather climate data, solid state drives are a must have in that kind of environment.