Micron Introduces New Series of High-Performance NVMe SSDs for Cloud and Enterprise Markets
April 23 2019 - 9:00AM
News Highlights
Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today unveiled its new series
of flagship solid-state drives (SSDs) featuring the NVM Express™
(NVMe™) protocol, bringing industry-leading storage performance at
higher capacities to cloud and enterprise computing markets. The
Micron
® 9300 series of NVMe SSDs enables companies
with data-intensive applications to access and process data faster,
helping reduce response time.
“The introduction of our third generation of NVMe SSDs endorses
our tradition of continued innovation for cloud and enterprise
markets,” said Derek Dicker, corporate vice president and general
manager for Micron’s Storage Business Unit. “The Micron 9300 is our
flagship series of NVMe SSDs, which feature industry-leading
sequential write performance and latency, increased capacities, and
delivery of a 28% reduction in power over the previous
generation.”
Enterprises deploying advanced cloud infrastructures require
systems that can store, retrieve, process and quickly analyze
massive amounts of business-critical data. Driven by this need,
many enterprises are transitioning primary storage from SATA-based
SSDs to NVMe.1 The Micron 9300 series equally balances its
3.5GB/second throughput on both reads and writes to deliver faster
response times for data-centric applications in comparison to other
NVMe SSDs available on the market. Combined with its class-leading
write latency and sequential write performance*, the Micron 9300
series excels in even the most demanding data center
environments.
Data center system designers not only value performance criteria
such as throughput and latency, but also the ability to maximize
the use of infrastructure and lower the total cost of ownership.
The new series of drives performs nearly nine times faster2 than
leading enterprise SATA SSDs and is 35% more efficient.3 The Micron
9300 series consumes 28% less power than earlier NVMe drive
generations, helping reduce operational costs. The availability of
the SSDs in high capacities allows customers to scale according to
their changing storage needs and keep up with the explosion in data
growth.
“Support for massive amounts of fast storage in
a server is a key feature of the AMD EPYC processor and is critical
to our customers,” said Raghunath Nambiar, corporate vice president
and chief technology officer for AMD datacenter ecosystem and
application engineering. “With 128 lanes of PCIe available in a
single socket, the AMD EPYC processor is an ideal match for the new
Micron 9300 NVMe drives and for the data-centric workloads such as
database applications, big data analytics and software-defined
storage solutions that are increasingly found in the modern data
center.”
The Micron 9300 series provides storage densities that were once
reserved only for hard disk drives (HDDs) by offering capacities up
to 15.36TB. Large capacities and up to 32 NVMe namespaces allow
enterprises to tailor deployments more efficiently for maximum
storage use.
Additional Highlights — Micron 9300 Series NVMe
SSDs
- 850,000 read and 310,000 write inputs/outputs (IOPS**).
- Class-leading capacities up to 15.36TB enable per-rack storage
density that outperforms even the densest HDDs.
- Data-integrity features such as data-path protection,
power-loss protection for in-flight and at-rest data, sanitize
crypto erase, and more.
AvailabilityThe Micron 9300 series of NVMe SSDs
is offered in two versions with varying endurance and performance
characteristics. The 9300 PRO series is designed for read-intensive
workloads and offered in capacities of 3.84TB, 7.68TB and 15.36TB.
The 9300 MAX is geared toward mixed-use applications and offered in
capacities of 3.2TB, 6.4TB and 12.8TB. Both versions will be
available in U.2 (2.5-inch, 15 mm) form factor, support PCIe Gen3
x4 NVMe and be rated for a mean time between failures of 2 million
hours.
The Micron 9300 series of NVMe SSDs is available now. For more
information, visit www.micron.com/9300.
Resources:
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- LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/micron-storage
- YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/MicronTechnology
About Micron Technology, Inc.
We are an 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 data center, networking, automotive,
industrial, mobile, graphics and client. Our common stock is traded
on the Nasdaq under the MU symbol. To learn more about Micron
Technology, Inc., visit micron.com.
* Based on the best SKU in each NVMe high-performance product
family’s U.2 (15 mm) form factor and information in public
competitor data sheets accessed Feb. 1, 2019. Actual performance
may vary.** Based on maximum data sheet specifications. Performance
specifications vary by model, capacity and form factor.
1. https://www.nvmedeveloperdays.com/English/Collaterals/Press_Releases/2018/20181205_G2M_NVMeResearch.pdf
2. 9300 PRO vs 5200 ECO (7.68TB) datasheet specification for random
read performance (850K vs 95K)3. 9300 PRO vs 5200 ECO (7.68TB)
datasheet specification for sequential read performance and power
(3500MB/second at 12W vs 540MB/second at 2.5W)
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Micron Technology, Inc.
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