Their current drive is the Real SSD C300. The system comes in a 6GB/s SATA configuration with a read speed up to 355 MB/s and a write speed of 215 MB/s. The form factor is both 1.8” and 2.5”. They come in capacities of 128GB and 256GB.

George Crump, Senior Analyst

SNW Briefing

   

    Additional SNW Meetings


  Spectra Logic

  Supermicro

  Avere

  Bocada

  Ocarina Networks

  Data Robotics

  Riverbed

  Nasuni

  FCIA

  Sepaton

  CommVault

  NextIO

  SNIA

     

Storage Switzerland is at SNW in force again this year and as in years past we will be doing our best to bring you continuous updates from the event. These reports are quick summaries of our meetings at the show; look for more detailed analysis on our blogs on Information Week and Network Computing.

 

At SNW Micron was discussing a more enterprise focused drive called the P300. First unlike the C series the P series of Micron SSD uses SLC based memory which is considered to be more reliable than MLC. Of course as we discussed in our Flash Controllers article, there is more to reliability than MLC vs. SLC but it is an important checkmark for the enterprise. The Micron drive features reliability increasing features like wear leveling and data path protection in addition to just SLC. Similar to the C300 it also uses the 6GB/s SATA interface. Micron uses a Open NAND Flash Interface to communicate to the flash memory itself. This further improves performance. The drive also leverages 34 nanometer manufacturing and should come in sizes of 50, 100 and 200 GB’s.


All in all Micron is moving quickly up the SSD value chain and they will bring their own innovation to the SSD market and the consumer will benefit from improved performance at reduced cost.