Micron launches 3D NAND SSDs

Press release; Jessie Shen, DIGITIMES [Wednesday 1 June 2016]

Micron Technology has introduced a new lineup of 3D NAND flash SSDs – the 1100 SATA and 2100 PCIe NVMe SSDs – designed to address the storage demands of today’s most challenging client computing platforms including Ultrabook and tablets as well as performance-oriented desktops and workstations. The series delivers the speed, capacity and power needed to handle massive files, images and multimedia workloads.

Featuring the industry’s highest capacity TLC 3D NAND, the 1100 SSD is Micron’s most cost-competitive SATA SSD, taking power to the min and capacity to the max, the company said. The Micron 1100 SSD is ideal for mainstream computing applications, providing users with nearly instant data access, supremely fast system boot times and program load speeds that can happen in the blink of an eye — all while being incredibly silent and extremely power-efficient to extend mobile device battery life.

When compared to a 2.5-inch consumer 7200RPM HDD, the Micron 1100 SSD is up to 900 times faster for random operations while increasing battery life with low power states that are up to 98% more efficient, the company said. With a maximum capacity of up to two terabytes of flash storage, the new Micron 1100 SSD is an attractive storage option for any user who wants both performance and longer battery life.

Introducing Micron’s first client PCIe NVMe solution, the Micron 2100 SSD transcends to the next dimension of storage with lower latency and unbridled performance for demanding client workloads, such as video creation and editing, online streaming and high-end gaming, the company said. The 2100 SSD enables high-end client computing with simple plug and play capability. Providing four times the bandwidth of standard SATA SSDs, the Micron 2100 SSD reduces data lag and bottlenecks by allowing massive volumes of data to be processed simultaneously. By leveraging the low latency NVMe protocol, the Micron 2100 SSD is able to deliver 1900X faster read performance while reducing response times by 98%, configured running client standard implementations, when compared to HDDs.

Micron 1100 and 2100 3D NAND SSDs are now sampling with key OEMs, according to the company. The 1100 SSD is expected to begin production in July with the 2100 SSD expected to follow in summer of 2016.