Micron: Enterprise and Consumer SSDs With 96-Layer 3D TLC NAND

Micron Technology, Inc. unveiled SSDs that expand its portfolio of drives available to both consumer and enterprise customers for storing data.

7300 NVMe series SSD

The 7300 NVMe series and 5300 SATA series of SSDs enable enterprises to modernize, economize and maximize return on their data center investments.

Addressing consumers’ need for mobility, the company also announced its entry into the consumer portable SSD market with the Crucial X8 portable SSD.

“We are excited to introduce these new products that expand our addressable market – with mainstream NVMe SSDs for the datacenter and portable SSDs for consumers – while building on our leadership in enterprise SATA SSDs,” said Sumit Sadana, EVP and chief business officer. “Micron’s growing portfolio of high-value storage solutions is built on industry-leading 3D NAND technology and provides customers a broad set of options to address their increasing storage needs.“

Analyst firm IDC forecasts that the world’s data will grow from 33ZB in 2018 to 175ZB in 2025. ⁽²⁾ Data centers will require higher-performance enterprise drives that can sustain heavy workloads to ensure that organizations have faster access to their data. In parallel, growing volumes of data are increasing average capacities in enterprise and consumer drives. These SSDs deliver on the company’s commitment to provide differentiated solutions that store data across all market segments and needs, from consumer to cloud.

7300 NVMe Series SSDs
The 7300 NVMe series of SSDs are designed for workloads that demand high throughput and low latency. They are for commonly used mixed read-write, compute and virtualized tasks such as SQL and NoSQL, for hyperconverged infrastructures, and for compute-centric cloud platforms. The use of 96-layer 3D TLC NAND technology brings cost and power efficiencies while the drives offer end-to-end data path protection, power-loss protection, secure firmware and secure erase capability.

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The 7300 NVMe series come in a variety of form factors, capacities and endurance levels. The drives will be available for ordering starting in December 2019. These drives complement the company’s existing data center portfolio, which includes the performance 9300 NVMe SSDs announced earlier this year.

5300 SATA Series SSDs
The 5300 SATA SSDs allow enterprises to extend their infrastructure investment by enabling an upgrade of their data centers with next-gen SATA drives. These SSDs are an industry’s first 96-layer 3D TLC enterprise SATA drives with enhanced security. The SSDs are optimized for read-intensive and mixed-use workloads while offering reliability that is 50% higher than the industry average for SATA drives.

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The 5300 SATA series of SSDs are available in a range of capacities, from 240GB to 7.68TB.

Crucial X8 portable SSD

Crucial X8 portable SSD for consumers
The Crucial X8 Portable SSD, introduced by the firm’s consumer brand for memory and storage upgrades, caters to the expanding need for more storage by consumers, who are capturing more photos and playing larger console and PC games.

It delivers performance in a sleek case. With read speeds up to 1,050MB/s, ⁽³⁾ the drive performs 1.8 times faster than similar portable SSDs within the same price category and up to 7.5 times faster than portable HDDs. The X8 is compatible with a variety of devices, including PCs, Macs, PS4s, XBOX Ones, iPad Pros, Chromebooks and select Android devices.

The Crucial’s SSDs undergo thousands of hours of Micron pre-release validation and SSD qualification testing before market release. It is drop-proof up to 7.5 feet. ⁽⁴⁾ It is backed by a 3-year limited warranty and available for ordering in capacities up to 1TB at the company’s website and through select global partners.

⁽¹⁾ Per public data sheet specs, the 5300 SSD has a MTTF of 3 million device hours, compared to 2 million hours for SATA enterprise SSDs.
⁽²⁾ Source: IDC. The Digitization of the World From Edge to Core, November 2018.
⁽³⁾ MB/s speed measured as maximum sequential performance of device as measured by Crucial on a high-performance desktop computer with Crystal Disk Mark (version 6.0.2 for x64). Performance may vary. Comparative speed claims measured as maximum sequential performance of similarly situated portable SSD’s, mainstream portable HDD’s and mainstream USB flash drives from vertically-integrated manufacturers selling under their own brands as of June 2019.
⁽⁴⁾ Up to 7.5 ft/2 m on a carpeted floor without damage to data on drive.

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April 29, 2019 | Press Release