Micron QLC Solid-State Drive Innovation Speeds Data Center Hard Disk Drive Displacement
April 08 2020 - 8:00AM
Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today announced new Micron®
5210 ION enterprise SATA SSD capacity and features, solidifying
Micron’s leadership in QLC technology volume production. The
world’s first QLC solid-state drive (SSD), the Micron 5210 is based
on the company’s advanced QLC NAND technology and quickly replacing
legacy hard disk drives (HDDs).
From SQL and NoSQL databases to big data and analytics, object
stores and vSAN capacity tiers, customers are now reaping the
benefits of NAND flash on performance-sensitive workloads that used
to live on HDDs. Rapidly supplanting 10K HDDs, the Micron 5210
delivers 175 times faster random reads, 30 times faster random
writes, two times more sequential throughput, and three times more
energy efficiency than the largest 10K RPM HDDs1 — all at a
compelling price point.
“The robust adoption of the Micron 5210 SSD since launching two
years ago is indicative of the rise of QLC technology in the data
center,” said Roger Peene, vice president of marketing for Storage
Business Unit at Micron. “We are proud of the role we have played
in driving adoption of the emerging QLC data center category,
providing customers with benefits ranging from more speed and lower
latencies to significant power savings and competitive
economics.”
Original equipment manufacturer (OEM) adoption momentum is
accelerating the industry’s transition from HDDs to QLC SSDs in
general-purpose server workloads, improving their performance,
reliability and power consumption.
“The new and innovative QLC wear-optimization technology
engineered into Micron’s SSDs can enable customers to safely
leverage SSDs for many of their workloads, addressing an important
customer need as performance and capacity demands grow,” said John
Donovan, executive director of Data Center Infrastructure at Lenovo
Data Center Group. “Micron’s 5210 QLC SSDs are available today on
Lenovo’s ThinkSystem solution portfolio.”
As workloads evolve to meet growing demands for real-time data
insights and analytics, data centers increasingly need the
steady-state speed, capacity, efficiency and reliability that
enterprise flash storage can provide but HDDs cannot. High-density
Micron QLC NAND flash media achieves densities of one terabit on a
single chip, providing the ease and platform continuity of SATA,
but with the value and speed of QLC NAND. The Micron 5210 ION SSD
is optimized to meet these demands, delivering more compelling
economics for enterprise storage compared with HDDs.
New 5210 Product Developments
- QLC firmware innovations — An industry first,
Micron’s latest QLC custom firmware helps remove QLC endurance
concerns and workload limitations, enabling QLC SSDs to reliably
replace HDDs in general-purpose servers and storage.
- 960GB SKU — Micron’s new 960GB SKU (now
generally available) satisfies strong customer demand to replace
900GB to 1.2TB 10K HDDs with cost-competitive SATA QLC
SSDs.
- OEM qualifications — The Micron 5210 is now
qualified by most major server OEMs, providing end customers
numerous supply chain options and confidence that the 5210 has been
stringently tested.
- VMware vSAN-certified — The Micron 5210 is
newly certified on VMware vSAN and one of the most cost-effective
ways to move to all-flash vSAN.
AvailabilityThe Micron 5210 ION SSD is in mass
production and available through nearly all major server OEMs,
leading global distributors, resellers and system builders, with
unit prices comparable to those of 10K enterprise HDDs. Contact
your preferred OEM for more information.
Additional information on the Micron 5210 ION, including product
specifications, is available at http://www.micron.com/5210
ResourcesLibrary of workload white
papers and research — Over 20 Micron white papers are now
available on micron.com for numerous workloads historically
deployed on HDDs. Highlights include the following:
- Getting business intelligence in SQL databases in less than an
one hour vs. eight hours on HDDs
- Getting seven times more operations per second on NoSQL
databases compared to HDDs
- Saving two hours performing Sort in Hadoop and running TeraGen
40% faster than HDDs
- Achieving eight times faster machine learning with the
Micron 5210, as measured by Colfax Research
- Enabling massive data analytics with Apache Hadoop and Spark,
when using 5210 HDFS storage with NVMe YARN cache
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About Micron Technology, Inc. We are an
industry leader in innovative memory and storage solutions. Through
our global brands — Micron® and Crucial® — our broad portfolio of
high-performance memory and storage technologies, including DRAM,
NAND, NOR flash and 3D XPoint™ memory, is transforming how the
world uses information to enrich life. Backed by more than 40 years
of technology leadership, our memory and storage solutions enable
disruptive trends, including artificial intelligence, machine
learning and autonomous vehicles, in key market segments like data
center, networking, automotive, industrial, mobile, graphics and
client. Our common stock is traded on the Nasdaq under the MU
symbol.
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1 Based on public data sheet values for the 1.92TB Micron 5210
SSD (70,000 IOPS) and SNIA PTSe IOPS industry-standard test results
or 2.4TB 10K hybrid HDDs (rounded up to 400 IOPS). Actual
performance may vary. Energy-efficiency comparison based on data
sheet values for active average reads.
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