Micron developed super fast SSD: 250 MB/s
Micron is starting production of a new line of solid state drives (SSD) that offer much faster data rates than were previously possible. The new drives are capable of 250MB/s data transfer and come in two lines, an enterprise-class RealSSD P200 and the client-focused RealSSD C200. The company hopes the increased speed and reduced power consumption of the new drives will encourage their adoption by the server market. “We are seeing SSD interest in a variety of applications where historically hard disk drives have reigned,” said Dean Klein, vice president of memory system development at Micron.
“For many, the most logical place is in notebook computers, but there is incredible value for SSDs in enterprise server systems.” The P200 range come in sizes from 16GB to 128GB in 2.5 inch modules, with the C200 ranging from 16GB to 256GB, and comes in 2.5 and 1.5 inch modules for better take-up by notebook manufacturers. The company is claiming that the P200 drives are 10 times faster than traditional platter drives, use a tenth of the power and last about four times as long.
Source: Vnunet
Wow.. great work.!
Hurray, maybe we one day will have these in out computers.
btw: use 1/10th of the power? Thats just..lies!
How many tens of thousands of dollars will each of those cost?
Yes but how much will it cost??
They won’t be too expensive, maybe around 600 euro for the bigger ones. Also, seeing as there are many companies making SSDs, there will be much competition and the prices will go down much more.
Ummm the past drives where about 25 MB/s transfer thats around 250Mbit.
And tihs suppose to be 10 times faster??? You sure you didn’t read the numbers as 250MB/s and not Mbit.
If it’s capable of 250MB/s then I’m really interested.
Well, that will depend on what is in the device and also what features/interfaces/etc it has.
thinking about getting one of these to be used as OS primary HD.
Man I can’t wait till these become cheap, and then I can have have a gaming computer that is quiet for once and performs well at the same time.
P.S. I’m pretty sure it’s Megabytes(MB)/s, check here: http://www.micron.com/products/real_ssd/ssd/index
There is a typo in micron link (”,” instead of “m” at the end of com)
Now I want SSD on my lappy even more >_>
I found a couple of similar drives on ebay. A 128Gb goes for around $600, but they only claim to be about half as fast as these. Theoretically the speed would be limited by the max throughput of the SATA bus… also (in theory) they *could* be as fast as RAM, depending on the technology used.
I predict a few years from now platter drives will have gone the way of the floppy.
Imagine striping these babies together in a RAID 0 Array lol.
I personally ain’t worried about the speed. There’s already OCZs that pass read above 100MB/s and for me it’s more than enough
I just want the prices to go down, because even if they read and write at 25MB/s I’d still buy them just to have a silent, shock-resistant disk.
If one wants storage space there’s tons of external damn cheap 1TB drives.
Hmm I’ll wait until the prices drop. Normal hard drives are so cheap now you can get TB drives for the same money or less. This technology for the future!
Ohh and I forgot… these drives almost emit no heat, so my right leg would no longer get burnt when I have my lappy on my lap
well the left one would still burn cause of the processor, but that’s not much we can do about it 
max sata transfer rate 3Gbps i.e ~384MBps ,,max ssd transfer rate 250MBps….now just need a processor that can perform those task of transferring @ 250MBps…….current e6600 using sata and 7200 drives max transfer rate 45MB ( extermely rarly) …..most of the time just transfers at about 25MBps……….
feel bad for the early adopters..they always get screwed.
“last 4 times as long”? I thought these drives had a finite # of rewrites.. and just flat out died at some point? 4 x longer than a hd?
@cxy, I thought the when transferring, the DMA(Direct Memory Access) controller took over the job of the processor.
Does anybody have any idea how long these drives retain data? I know the data retention of a cdrom is a roughly 50 years… Depending of course on media quality, and how it’s stored, but the point is it’s not indefinite as one might think.
It got 250MB/s raid and 100MB/s write
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For comparison check out HDD and external HDD at newegg http://www.newegg.com/Store/Category.aspx?Category=15&name=Hard-Drives so for assuming these things sell for $600 you can buy a hard disk today for 1/6th of the cost which has up to 10x the capacity. Buy 6-10 external hard disks which have more capacity EACH or one of these? Doesn’t take a genius to decide…
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the will be good for the ps3
From the micron website :
* “… sequential read and write speed of up to a maximum of 250 megabytes per second (MB/s).”
* “…operating at 2.5 watts in active mode and under at 0.3 watts in idle. In contrast, data center hard drives typically consume anywhere between 8 to 28 watts.”
* “…offering a mean time between failure (MTBF) rate of approximately two million hours compared to 300,000 to 500,000 MTBF of an HDD.”
The last two are true for any SSD drive, but this one as some extra speed to it!
Mat
Problems:
1. 10x faster than traditional drives. You know damn well they are referring to 8mb cache, 4200rpm drives, not 15k rom 32mb+ cache SAS drives.
2. Cost? No mention of cost. While SAS drives are not cheap, SSD has traditionally been 10x the cost. So a 144gig SAS may cost $600, an 128gig SSD must be about $6000.
Also there is mention of limited life of SSD drives and they so far have a high failure rate when it comes to memory cells.
This will probably be corrected in 2-5 years I believe, but now, not worth the risk.
I’ve been waiting for someone to internally RAID a drive like this. Shouldn’t be a technical problem, so odd that it has taken this long really.
Remember, your HD is by far the slowest and most stone-age component in your PC. How many instructions do you think a modern CPU could perform while waiting for data it requested to come back from the drive?
A back-of-the-envelope calculation, with a 4 core 3 ghz CPU, and 10ms response time, gives 12 million calculations. That is a long-ass time to wait for anything, if you ask me
old news… this has been announced months ago
All you guys wanting performance, look at fusion io. 2-3 times the perf. of the ones in this article. Rather have one of those for my windows ready-boost lol