Micron Accelerates the Mobile Computing Experience With Introduction of New Client SSD
February 27 2019 - 9:00AM
News Highlights
Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU) today added a new
cost-efficient solid-state drive (SSD) to its client computing
portfolio. The Micron 1300 SSD makes flash storage accessible to
more users, enabling its adoption in a broader set of personal
computing devices for a better mobile computing experience.
Consumers who are eager to move from rotating media to solid state
drives value fast performance, quick startup, and reliability —
whether for desktop, mobile or workstation PCs. SSDs address these
needs better than power-hungry hard disk drives (HDDs), yet their
higher prices have kept users from shifting to SSDs. Micron
redesigned the 1300 SSD series to close the price gap.
“The deployment of advanced 3D NAND technologies has led the
client SSD market to branch into value and higher-performance
storage segments,” said Gregory Wong, president of Forward
Insights. “Micron’s latest client SSD solutions provide a coherent
migration path from HDD to value-oriented SSDs.”
The new Micron 1300 SATA SSD is one of the industry’s first
96-layer triple-level cell (TLC) 3D NAND-based SSDs, available in
capacities up to 1TB (in M.2) and 2TB (in 2.5-inch). This product
introduction extends Micron’s leadership in high-density SSD design
and high-volume manufacturing of performance 3D NAND-based flash
drives. The ability to build drives with very small footprints like
the M.2 SSD form factor, which is as small as a stick of gum, also
hinges on Micron’s leadership in 3D NAND technology.
“We are driving innovation to deliver on the personal computing
needs of users who want thinner, lighter and less power-hungry
devices,” said Roger Peene, vice president of product planning and
strategy for Micron’s Storage Business Unit. “Expanding our broad
SSD portfolio with high-density 96-layer NAND storage delivers
greater performance, form factors and efficiency at lower cost to
meet the demanding needs of today’s mobile workers.”
The Micron 1300 SSD enhances storage performance for mobile,
desktop and workstation PCs with 2.7x higher read throughput over
HDDs.* It delivers sequential reads/writes up to 530MB/520MB per
second and random reads/writes up to 90,000/87,000 input/output
operations per second (IOPS).
In addition, the Micron 1300 SSD, designed to be power
efficient, extends battery life between charges for the mobile
worker. It uses 75 milliwatts (mW) of power, which is only 45
percent of the active (read/write) power of an average HDD.** The
Micron 1300 SSD also supports Microsoft® Windows® 10 Modern Standby
requirements including adaptive thermal management and near-instant
transmission to low-power mode for increased productivity. The SSD
also offers important features to protect valuable data such as
asynchronous power-loss protection for data at rest and optional
Opal 2.0 self-encryption.
The Micron 1300 SSD is an extension of the popular Micron 1100
SATA client SSD. Continuing the widely adopted SATA connectivity,
Micron’s 1300 SSD series offers compelling price-to-value ratios at
a range of capacities.
For more information, visit https://www.micron.com/1300.
*Comparing solid state client drives to 5400 RPM, SATA 2.5-inch
internal hard disk drives; data transfer rate 140 MB/second
average. **Same HDD, 1.6 watts average on read/write power, while
the Micron 1300 SSD requires an active average power of 75 mW, as
measured running MobileMark productivity suite. All IOPS and power
usage data collected from publicly available datasheets as of the
time of this writing.
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industry leader in innovative memory and storage solutions. Through
our global brands — Micron®, Crucial® and Ballistix® — 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 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 cloud, data center, networking, mobile and
automotive. Our common stock is traded on the NASDAQ under the MU
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