Micron Announces Its Fastest Enterprise Solid-State Storage System
Micron Technology today announced a new portfolio of PCI Express solid-state storage systems, RealSSD P320h. This series delivers improved performance and endurance demanded by data-intensive enterprise applications including cloud computing, high-performance computing, data analytics, business intelligence, and video on demand.
The P320h system uses Micron's 34-nanometer single-level cell (SLC) NAND flash memory technology, which provides two different user capacities: 350GB and 700GB. From the NAND silicon to the controller to the complete system solution, the P320h SSD is designed and developed by Micron.
In terms of performance, the P320h series is said to more than double the sequential read and write speeds compared to the nearest competitor, achieving up to 3GBs of sustained data throughput per second. In terms of input/output operations per second (IOPS), a common method used in the enterprise market for benchmarking relative performance, the P320h series reaches a maximum of 750K IOPS read and 341K IOPS write speeds. A P320h drive (working in a cloud media streaming application) should be able to serve data fast enough to feed 1500 simultaneous individual HD video streams.
The P320h features Micron's proprietary redundant array of independent NAND (RAIN) management technology that is designed to ensure enterprise-class data protection by replicating data across the NAND flash memory channels. The P320h drive also provides enterprise-class levels of endurance with the 700GB drive able to write 28 terabytes of data every day for five years.
The first products in Micron's P320h series will be available in a full height, half-length form factor, measuring 111.15mm wide x 167.65mm long x 14.47mm thick. Micron has additional PCIe form factors under development to be introduced later this year. Micron is now delivering early samples of the P320h, with mass production expected to begin in the third quarter.
Source: Micron Technology
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