Speed might be a relations thing, though whatever you select to review Micron’s latest RealSSD P320h form to, you’ll substantially find them flattering competitive. Coming in 350GB as well as 700GB capacities, these PCI Express plain state drives can routine interpretation during a rate of 3GB per second as well as write it during a no reduction considerable 2GBps. If you’re some-more meddlesome in submit / outlay operations per second, a P320h clocks in during 750,000 IOPS when using Linux or 650,000 with Windows Server as a OS. You do not need us to discuss it you that both numbers paint screaming-fast performance. Such strong feats have been completed with a operate of 34nm SLC NAND peep mental recall as well as Micron’s own controller chip. Samples of a P320h have been trickling out right away as well as mass prolongation is entrance in a third entertain of 2011, as well as whilst no pricing info has been offering yet, it’s protected to contend you’ll be wanting your association CFO’s good fortune prior to creation any P320h purchases. Video as well as full PR after a break.
Show full PR textMicron Announces World’s Fastest Enterprise Solid-State Storage System Featuring PCI Express
New PCI Express Storage System Boosts Enterprise Efficiency, Accelerates System Responsiveness & Extends Data Integrity
BOISE, Idaho, Jun 2, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:MU) currently voiced a latest portfolio of PCI Express (PCIe) solid-state storage systems, a RealSSD™ P320h solid-state expostulate (SSD) series. This latest RealSSD P320h form delivers impassioned opening as well as continuation demanded by data-intensive craving applications together with clouded cover computing, high-performance computing, interpretation analytics, commercial operation intelligence, as well as video upon demand. These latest forms of interpretation storing, accessing as well as pity have been quick severe a customary craving storage indication of spinning disks, presenting good event for PCIe SSDs.
“Micron is defining a total latest difficulty of enterprise-class storage with a P320h PCIe solid-state storage systems,” pronounced Gary Gentry, ubiquitous manager, craving division, Micron’s NAND solutions group. “The P320h provides business with a many constrained opening resolution in a industry.”
The P320h complement uses Micron’s proven 34-nanometer (nm) single-level dungeon (SLC) NAND peep mental recall technology, that provides dual opposite user capacities: 350 gigabyte (GB) as well as 700GB. From a NAND silicon to a controller to a finish complement solution, a P320h SSD is written as well as grown by Micron.
For performance, a P320h form reaches a latest customary between tide PCIe systems, some-more than doubling a consecutive review as well as write speeds compared to a nearest competitor-achieving up to 3GBs of postulated interpretation throughput per second. In conditions of input/output operations per second (IOPS), a usual process used in a craving marketplace for benchmarking relations performance, a P320h form reaches a limit of 750,000 IOPS review as well as 341,000 IOPS write speeds.
A extensive volume of interpretation is review as well as accessed from clouded cover computing applications such as YouTube, Facebook as well as Netflix. According to IDC, a volume of digital calm combined as well as replicated via 2010 reached 1.2 zettabytes.1 For quick entrance to this information, an intensely quick backend infrastructure is required, generally from a storage system. A P320h expostulate (working in a clouded cover media streaming application) could offer interpretation quick sufficient to feed 1,500 coexisting particular HD video streams.2
Other applications that good from high-performance PCIe SSDs embody Web servers as well as online contract estimate databases. The tall pointless opening of a P320h complement is homogeneous to a volume of IOPS an Exchange server would need to await some-more than 1.5 million Outlook users.3 Additionally, for a normal transactional database, such as an online bank operation transferring supports from a single sort of comment to another, a P320h can grasp a same throughput as scarcely 5,000 tough drives.4 For some-more sum upon a opening advantages of Micron’s P320h systems, revisit www.micron.com/ssd/pcie.
The P320h facilities Micron’s exclusive surplus form of eccentric NAND (RAIN) government record that is written to safeguard enterprise-class interpretation insurance by replicating interpretation opposite a NAND peep mental recall channels. The P320h expostulate additionally provides enterprise-class levels of continuation with a 700GB expostulate means to write twenty-eight terabytes of interpretation each day for 5 years.
The initial products in Micron’s P320h form will be accessible in a full height, half-length form factor, measuring 111.15mm far-reaching x 167.65mm prolonged x 14.47mm thick. Micron has one more PCIe form factors underneath development, that you devise to deliver after this year. Micron is right away delivering early samples of a P320h, with mass prolongation approaching to proceed in a third quarter.
1 According to an IDC white paper “The Digital Universe Decade – Are You Ready?” sponsored by EMC Corporation
2 Using today’s customary rates for video upon direct streams (compressed MPEG2 video during 16Mb/s per stream). The P320h reaches 3GB/s consecutive reads or 3,000 Mb/s consecutive reads.
3 Assuming Outlook Mail servers using Exchange Server 2007 need 0.32 IOPS per “Heavy” user, 750k review IOPS provides sufficient bandwidth to await 2,343,750 users (750,000/.32); 341k write IOPS equates to 1,065,635 (341,000/.32). According interpretation upon a Microsoft Exchange Server TechCenter, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb738147%28EXCHG.80%29.aspx
4 These numbers have been formed upon customary 15k SAS HDD specs of 153 IOPS per drive. (750,000/153
