Access Data at the Speed of Now with Micron’s New Flagship NVMe Solid-State Storage Family
August 08 2017 - 11:00AM
News Highlights
Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:MU) today introduced Micron® 9200
Series of NVMe™ SSDs, the company’s latest flagship performance
solid-state storage family. The innovative architecture and
industry leading performance of Micron 9200 SSDs allows
organizations to access data faster and stay one step ahead of the
growing diversity of business-critical workloads and surging data
demands.
The new Micron 9200 SSD combines the cost-effective capacity of
3D NAND with the proven throughput and response time of the NVM
Express (NVMe) protocol. Built from the ground up to remove legacy
layers of hard drive interfaces, Micron’s second generation of NVMe
drives unleashes the speed of solid state nonvolatile memory to
maximize data center efficiency for optimal total cost of ownership
(TCO).
“The Micron 9200 Series of NVMe SSDs are specially designed to
deliver the blazing fast speeds, low-latency, and high-capacity
needed to handle massive files, images and multimedia assets
created by today’s complex application workloads,” said Eric
Endebrock, vice president SSD and Systems, Storage Business
Unit, Micron Technology, Inc. “With the Micron 9200 SSDs added
to our SSD playbook, we are providing customers a rich portfolio of
storage solutions to manage their changing business needs.”
The capacity and performance of Micron 9200 SSDs enables data
centers to store more, do more and know more about their data.
Innovative architecture combining NVMe protocols on a PCIe
connection enables the Micron 9200 SSD to deliver fast enterprise
flash performance — up to 10X faster than the typical SATA SSDs on
the market — while conserving power and rack space with its 3D NAND
high-density storage.i Moreover, the Micron 9200 is one of the
first NVMe SSDs on the market with a capacity exceeding 10TB,
meeting the needs of even the most storage-hungry use cases at an
attractive cost per gigabyte.
“NVMe reduces I/O overhead by extending the number of
simultaneous storage commands that a single drive can execute,”
said Matt Kimball, Senior Analyst, Servers and Storage for Moor
Insights & Strategy. “What has slowed its market acceptance has
been the price point and reliability of the technology.
Technologies like those from Micron show promise in removing those
barriers, which would be a significant step forward in reducing I/O
latency for memory intensive workloads.”
Meet Your Workloads Head OnToday’s business is
becoming ever more complicated, requiring faster decision-making
and analysis of ever-larger data sets to remain competitive. As a
result, there is a growing emphasis on denser datacenters, ensuring
reliability and data persistence, and scaling storage
infrastructure up and out without adding latency.
For those organizations with high-capacity and high-performance
data needs, solid-state storage technologies like 3D NAND and NVM
Express™ provide the technology foundation for next-level
enterprise IT. Blending the best of these technologies for
enterprise storage, Micron 9200 SSDs are ideal for such
high-performance, high-capacity use cases as application/ database
acceleration, OLTP, high frequency trading (HFT), and high
performance computing (HPC). For example, when compared against the
nearest competitor in terms of capacity and performance in an OLTP
database workload, the Micron 11TB 9200 ECO SSD, was 45% faster and
had more than twice the capacity.
The Micron 9200 SSD family is designed as the storage foundation
for the Micron SolidScale™ platform, providing greater capacity for
more efficient workload optimization and reducing TCO. With the
9200, SolidScale will be capable of over 250TB per node, scaling
over 5PB per rack of the highest performance NVMe SSD available in
shared storage today. These new high-performance NVMe drives
accelerate applications and breathe new life and agility into aging
infrastructures, delivering key capabilities for today’s
enterprise:
- Accelerate Applications – Micron 9200 SSDs deliver sequential
read/write transfer speeds up to 5.5 and 3.5 GB/s. Random
read/write transfer speeds reach up to 900K and 275K IOPS to turn
data into information with low latency and high performance.
- Optimize Existing Infrastructure – Micron’s purpose-built flash
solutions are easy to deploy and deliver bottom-line value and
efficiency to business and IT operations.
- Be Large and in Charge – Optimize and scale out server and
storage design with capacities up to 11TB, in industry standard
volumes, for even the most storage hungry use case.
- Get Peace of Mind – Offering full enterprise end-to-end data
path protection and power loss protection to keep your data
safe.
- Reduce Your Cost/IOPS – Micron 9200 SSDs deliver low cost/IOPS
along with its low latency and faster performance. Compared with a
typical high-end HDD cost over $1/IOPS, the Micron SSD with NVMe
delivers a substantial cost saving at roughly $0.01/IOPS.1
- FlexCapacity – Allocate storage to meet both application and
budget requirements.
- Meet Workload Endurance Requirements – Micron 9200 offers a
broad range of endurance levels for today’s most demanding
workloads.
Micron 9200 SSDs are expected to be generally available at the
end of August 2017 from leading distributors. For more information
visit
https://www.micron.com/products/solid-state-storage/product-lines/9200.
Resources:
- Micron Media Kit: http://bit.ly/2fnKKyw
- Video: Micron Silicon to Systems Solutions
https://youtu.be/hLK__vG1Ggc
- Blog: www.micron.com/about/blogs
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/MicronStorage
- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/micron-storage
- YouTube™: www.youtube.com/microntechnology
About Micron Micron Technology is a world
leader in innovative memory solutions. Through our global brands —
Micron, Crucial®, Lexar® and Ballistix® — our broad portfolio of
high-performance memory technologies, including DRAM, NAND, NOR
Flash and 3D XPoint™ memory, is transforming how the world uses
information. Backed by more than 35 years of technology leadership,
Micron's memory solutions enable the world's most innovative
computing, consumer, enterprise storage, data center, mobile,
embedded and automotive applications. Micron's common stock is
traded on the Nasdaq under the MU symbol. To learn more about
Micron Technology, Inc., visit micron.com.
i 9200 is rated at 900K IOPS based on 100% Random 4KB Read
Performance and compared with public available datasheet
information for Tier-1 Data Center SATA SSDs showing an average 85K
IOPS, as of the time of this writing
1 **Hard drive price used is the average of the first three
prices taken from www.froogle.com for new, open market
products that are not OEM or refurbished, and are new in every way.
SSD price used is the Micron list price in units of one. All prices
were taken as of the time of this writing. All IOPS data
collected from publicly available datasheets as of the time of
this writing.
PR Contact:
David Oro
Micron Technology
707-558-8585
davidoro@micron.com
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