BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 12, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Micron Technology, Inc.(Nasdaq:MU) today introduced the RealSSD P300 solid-state drive (SSD), bringingfaster system performance and improved data integrity to enterpriseenvironments. The RealSSD P300 drive features the SATA 6-gigabits per second(Gbps) interface, a first for the enterprise SSD market. The new P300 SSDdelivers extraordinarily high steady-state input/output operations per second(IOPS), up to 44,000 reads and 16,000 writes—more than 15 times the writeperformance of competing SATA-based SSDs. "The RealSSD P300 SSD is the fastest SATA-based drive on the market,"(1) saidDean Klein, Micron vice president of Memory System Development. "The RealSSDP300 is able to do the work of multiple hard drives—outperforming a RAID of 12hard drives in some cases."(2) The ever-expanding workload of today's enterprise environments requires thetechnology within to be able to withstand the rigors of data being constantlyaccessed, transferred and stored. The RealSSD P300 drive was designedspecifically to address these requirements by using Micron's high-performanceand high-endurance ONFI 2.1 34-nanometer (nm) single-level cell (SLC) NANDtechnology, ensuring product longevity and added reliability in today'sdemanding enterprise environments. Combining Micron's high-quality NAND andproprietary firmware design enables the P300 SSD to deliver the highest SATAdrive endurance capability in the industry—3.5 petabytes total bytes writtenfor the 200GB drive which is equal to writing approximately 1.9 terabytes perday, every day for five years.(3) "Aside from its raw performance, the RealSSD P300 product was also designed toreach industry leading steady-state capabilities, even with the write cachedisabled. With the P300, users no longer have to choose between IOPs orthroughput and maximum data resiliency—they can have both in the same drive,"added Klein. Micron worked with Calypso Systems, Inc., a leading industry benchmarking firmto test the P300 SSD. "The RealSSD P300 SSD once again shows Micron seizing anindustry leading position, delivering tremendous performance gains relative tothe competition," said Eden Kim, chief executive officer of Calypso Systems."By taking advantage of the SATA 6Gb/s, the P300 showed impressive small block4K Random Write IOPs that were as much as 2.5 to 16 times faster than competingdrives it was tested against." Available in 50, 100 and 200-gigabyte (GB) capacities, the RealSSD P300 driveis targeted primarily at enterprise applications including blade andconventional servers, storage arrays and high-end workstations. Designed to fitthe standard 2.5-inch form factor, the P300 SSD achieves a read throughputspeed of up to 360MB/s and a write throughput speed of up to 275MB/s. To learnmore about the product features of the P300 SSD, visithttp://www.micron.com/products/solid_state_storage/enterprise_ssd.html. 