Micron Technology has introduced a series of solid-state drives that are suitable for data-intensive enterprise applications including cloud computing, high-performance computing, data analytics, business intelligence, and video on demand. The RealSSD P320h system uses the company's 34nm single-level cell NAND flash memory technology and offers 350 and 700Gbyte user capacities. The solid state drives achieve up to 3Gbit of sustained data throughput/second. In terms of input and output operations/ second, the solid-state drives reach a maximum of 750,000 input and output operations/second read and 341,000 input and output operations/second write speeds. The solid state drives are also suitable for web servers and online transaction processing databases. They feature the company's redundant array of independent NAND management technology that is designed to ensure enterprise-class data protection by replicating data across the NAND flash memory channels. The 350Gbyte solid state drive achieves 25petabytes total bytes written whereas the 700Gbyte solid state drive achieves 50petabytes total bytes written. The company expects to begin mass production in Q3 of 2011.
