Micron Introduces New Solid State Drive for Data Center Servers and Storage Platforms

Micron Technology,Inc, announced its next-generation solid state drive(SSD) for data center servers, appliances, and storage platforms that manage the volume and velocity of big data. The new Micron P400m SSD is a high-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. The Micron P400m was designed precisely for this environment. It offers the high reliability and high edurance that is critical for high-performance storage tiers, accelerating throughout, and responding to the peak demand periods that these new applications create. "The growth in big data is putting 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 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 P400 resolves this conflict by implementing Micron's Extended Performance and Enhanced Reliability Technology(XPERT), which closely integrates the storage media and controller through highly-optimized firmware algorithms and hardware enhancements. The end results is a set of market-focused enterprise features that deliver increased data performance and reliability. To learn more about Micron's XPERT, read our tech brief:http://www.micron.com/~/media/Documents/Products/Technical%20Marketing%20Brief/xpert_feature_set.pdf 
            All manufacturing, testing, and qualification for the Micron P400 is completed solely at Micron facilities. close communication between Micron 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 entire drive development, test, manufacture, and shipment process. The quality control ensures drive reliability for which Micron SSDs are known.

 Key features of the Micron P400 include:
 => High Endurance - XPERT extends drive life, making the P400 perfect 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.
 => Superior Data Protection - The Micron P400m was designed with multiple features for data protection including onboard power loss protection providing peace of mind that your data is always right where it should be.
 => Consistent High Performance - Consistent delivery of high throughout and IOPs are critical to providing the performance required in all flash and tiered storage arrays.
 => Low Power - The Micron P400 consumes significantly less power than HDDs and requires almost zero cooling.
 => Low Latency - The P400 delivers reliably low latency times, which are critical to creating a storage system that can consistently respond to unpredictable demand spikes.
=> Enterprise focused design - XPERT feature set delivers enterprise level performance to an MLC drive; the onboard custom controller simplifies data management and increase ease-of-use.
=> Affordable Price - Cost-effective MLC NAND provides a more affordable solution for enterprise customers. This SSD further expands Micron's enterprise-class storage portfolio, providing a targeted caching and mass storage solution for key applications including active real-time database, 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 strong enterprise SSD portfolio, which includes an established 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 400 gigabyte(GB) capacities and a standard 2.5-inch 7-millimeter (mm) form factor to serve a wide range of markets. The drive is currently in production and is sold direct to OEMs and through Micron's extensive distribution network.