14 DAY TRIAL // Micron Technology has been especially active on the Flash storage market lately, and has now unveiled the latest device it has come up with, namely the RealSSD P300, an enterprise-grade solid state drive capable of high random read and random write speeds.
Solid state drives are gaining ground on not just the enterprise, but the consumer marker as well, because of their high data transfer rates and reliability,
Eager to put the endurance and high speeds of NAND to work, Micron created the RealSSD P300, a SSD based on SLC (single-level cell) chips built on the 34nm manufacturing process technology.
In terms of random reads and random writes, the drive achieves 60,000 IOPS and 45,200 IOPS (input/output operations per second), respectively.
What is especially impressive, however, is that the device reaches maximum read and write speeds of 360 MB/s and 275 MB/s, respectively.
This is achievable thanks to the fact that the SSD is designed compatible with the SATA 6.0 Gbps interface.
"The RealSSD P300 SSD is the fastest SATA-based drive on the market," said Dean Klein, Micron vice president of Memory System Development.
"The RealSSD P300 is able to do the work of multiple hard drives--outperforming a RAID of 12 hard drives in some cases," he added.
"Aside from its raw performance, the RealSSD P300 product was also designed to reach industry leading steady-state capabilities, even with the write cache disabled. With the P300, users no longer have to choose between IOPs or throughput and maximum data resiliency-they can have both in the same drive," Klein explained.
Micron's RealSSD P300 will have capacities of 50GB, 100GB and 200GB and will enter mass-production in October.
Unfortunately, the storage solutions developer decided not to disclose any sort of information regarding pricing, which means that enterprise-users will have enough time to get their data centers set and ready.