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Micron P400m SATA SSDs for Server and Storage Platform

100GB to 400GB on 25nm MLC in 2.5-inch 7mm form factor, 300/210MB/s R/W

Micron Technology, Inc. announced its next-generation SSD for data center servers, appliances, and storage platforms that manage the volume and velocity of big data.

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The P400m SSD is an endurance SATA caching and storage solution that was designed to handle the amassing petabytes of structured and unstructured digital information that is created, stored and accessed every day in data centers.

Data reliability and system uptime have always been primary concerns for data center managers, but the accelerating influx of data and massive demand spikes add new pressures that require different, more responsive storage systems. The P400m was designed for this environment. It offers the reliability and endurance that is for high-performance storage tiers, accelerating throughput, and responding to the peak demand periods that these new applications create.

"The growth in big data is placing tremendous pressure on IT administrators. Users require fast, on-demand access to data. This means data centers must deliver more data, faster than ever before-in an environment that has zero tolerance for data loss," said Ed Doller, VP and general manager of Micron’s Enterprise SSD division. "Integrating flash storage into the data center is the preferred way administrators can meet these growing demands. The Micron P400m delivers the endurance, reliability, and performance critical for data center storage."

The growing demand for high-performance, cost-effective enterprise storage requires the latest NAND flash technology. Paradoxically, flash technology also loses performance and endurance and is generally harder to work with as it’s scaled down into these new designs. The P400m resolves this conflict by implementing Micron’s Extended Performance and Enhanced Reliability Technology (XPERT), which integrates the storage media and controller through optimized firmware algorithms and hardware enhancements. The end result is a set of market-focused enterprise features that deliver increased data performance and reliability.  

All manufacturing, testing, and qualification for the P400m is completed at Micron facilities. Close communication between NAND and SSD engineers enables the highest degree of integration between the flash media and its management, and the in-house manufacturing ensures complete quality control during the drive development, test, manufacture, and shipment process.

Key features of the Micron P400m include:

  • Endurance – XPERT extends drive life, making the P400m for write-intensive workloads. It is designed to achieve 10 drive fills per day for five years, which (for the 400GB drive) is the equivalent of writing every picture posted to Facebook daily for 311 days straight (about 78 billion photos total).
  • Data Protection – The P400m was designed with multiple features for data protection – including onboard power loss protection-providing peace of mind that data is always right where it should be.
  • Performance – Consistent delivery of high throughput and IOPs are critical to providing the performance required in all-flash and tiered storage arrays (tiered storage groups place fast storage in front of slower, high-volume storage to create a versatile system that has both high performance and high capacity).
  • Low Power – The P400m consumes less power than HDDs (dramatically less when measured in watts per work achieved) and requires almost zero cooling.
  • Latency – It delivers reliably low latency times, which are for creating a storage system that can consistently respond to unpredictable demand spikes.

This SSD expands Micron’s enterprise storage portfolio, providing a targeted caching and mass storage solution for applications including active real-time databases, virtual machine image storage, virtual memory, array-level write cache, low maintenance storage appliances, and video on demand. The P400m SSD adds to Micron’s enterprise SSD portfolio, which includes a boot and log SATA drive aimed at cloud and Web 2.0 applications, the P400e, as well as the high-performance P320h PCIe IO accelerator.

The P400m comes in 100, 200 and 400GB capacities and a standard 2.5-inch 7mm form factor. The drive is in production and is sold direct to OEMs and through distribution network.

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