Micron Introduces New Solid-State Drives and NAND Flash-Based Notebooks

By DE Editors

Micron Technology, Inc. has unveiled a new portfolio of RealSSD solid-state drives (SSDs) for flash-based notebooks.

"SSDs are bringing excitement back into personal computing," said Dean Klein, vice president of memory system development at Micron. "Micron is accelerating this enthusiasm with our new RealSSD portfolio, providing even greater performance and higher capacities than our previous generation SSDs."

The new portfolio is the first SSD product line to incorporate Micron's 25-nanometer (nm) NAND flash technology, creating a portfolio of capacities ranging from 64GB to 512GB. The drives will be available in 1.8-in. and 2.5-in. form factors. As with its predecessor, the product line also supports the SATA 6Gb/s interface.

The new drives reach read speeds up to 415MB/second, which is 17% faster than Micron's previous generation drives. With write performance varying by capacity, the new 512GB drive achieves up to 260 MB/second write speeds, which is more than 20% faster than the fastest C300 drive.

Crucial, a division of Micron, will begin selling the portfolio as Crucial m4 SSD. The Crucial m4 SSD product line is expected to be available in the first quarter of 2011.

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Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.