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Micron offers SSDs up to 512-Gbyte
Peter Clarke
1/4/2011 10:44 AM EST
LONDON – Memory chipmaker Micron Technology Inc. has announced several solid-state drives based on the company's 25-nm NAND flash memory technology and ranging in capacity from 64-Gbyte to 512-Gbyte. The drives will be available in 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch form factors.
As with its predecessor, the product line also supports the SATA 6-Gbit per second interface, which opens up the data path between the host processor and the SSD delivering improved overall system responsiveness including faster boot times and speedier application loads. The new drives reach read speeds up to 415-Mbytes per second, 17 percent faster than Micron's previous generation drives, the company said. With write performance varying by capacity, the new 512-Gbyte drive achieves up to 260-Mbyte per second write speeds, which is more than 20 percent faster than the fastest C300 drive.
Micron (Boise, Idaho) is currently working with notebook manufacturers to qualify its latest RealSSD drives under the C400 product name. With samples of the RealSSD C400 drives available now, Micron expects mass production to begin in February.
The Crucial Technology division of Micron is due to begin selling the portfolio under the name, M4 SSD. The M4 SSD product line is expected to be available online and through select global channel partners in the first quarter of 2011.
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iniewski
1/4/2011 11:40 AM EST
512 Gb Flash! Who needs a hard drive??? Kris
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luting
1/4/2011 2:25 PM EST
512GB HDD costs less than $30. How much 512 GB SDD costs?
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eewiz
1/4/2011 10:02 PM EST
The last time I checked for a 512GB upgrade for my macbook, Apple asked for 1300$ more[just for the upgrade :)]. I dont think there will be any price parity with HDD any time soon.
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LarryM99
1/4/2011 4:47 PM EST
The sad thing is that it still uses a SATA interface, albeit the latest version. These things really need a more appropriate path into the system. 512 GByte at 260 MByte / sec means that it will take just over half an hour at best to fill it up.
Larry M.
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iniewski
1/4/2011 10:46 PM EST
To @eewiz, agreed, price parity will probably never happen, so the real question is how much more people will pay for faster boot...
To @LarryM99: good point, faster IO would be great, but how much faster can you really go???...and why do need to fill it up at once? filling up 512 Gb hard disk will take more than a while too ;-)...Kris
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LarryM99
1/5/2011 5:09 PM EST
The use model is going to be different for an SD card than it is for a traditional fixed disk. This is a device that I would want for carrying around a lot of data. It is more likely that I would be loading it up all at once rather than over time. For example, if I had a bunch of documents that I wanted to leak to a website... (Just kidding!!). Seriously, I can imagine security guys having a coronary about this much portable storage in this small of a package.
Larry M.
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Etmax
1/5/2011 6:27 PM EST
I think the combination of lower power consumption together with faster speeds makes the price premium for say 120G devices worth the cost for portable PC's. I'm not sure how the wear out behaviour of FLASH would affect desk top use that is typically more disk intensive.
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selinz
1/5/2011 8:24 PM EST
Just popped in a 2 tb drive for my desktop for $79. I figure a 2 tb flash would be $6K
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