Beating its exposed and fabulously hairy technology chest for all to see, data storage specialist Micron has unveiled a new notebook and desktop solid-state drive (SSD) that it claims “far outshines the competition” and is the fastest data solution currently available in the industry.
Faster than a speeding hard drive. Image: Micron.
According to Biose, Idaho-based Micron, its RealSSD C300 drive will enable users to enjoy a more powerful and responsive computing experience thanks to native support for the savagely quick SATA 6Gb/s high-speed interface and also Micron’s 34nm MLC NAND technology.
“The C300 SSD not only delivers on all the inherent advantages of SSDs – improved reliability and lower power use – but also leverages a finely tuned architecture and high-speed ONFI 2.1 NAND to provide a whole new level of performance,” trumpeted Dean Klein, Micron’s vice president of memory system development.
Duly armed with the RealSSD C300, hardware owners should immediately benefit from faster operating system boot and hibernation speeds, along with swifter times connected to application load, data transfer and file copying.
With SATA 6Gb/s support, the RealSSD C300 should offer up a data path between the host hardware and the drive that’s twice as fast as the previous SATA 3Gb/s interface, thanks to a read throughput speed of up to 355MB/s and a write throughput speed of up to 215MB/s.
“Hard drives gain little performance advantage using SATA 6Gb/s because of mechanical limitations,” added Klein in reference to slower and less economical HDD alternatives.
“As a developer of leading-edge NAND technology, along with out sophisticated controller and firmware innovations, Micron is well positioned to tune our drives to take full advantage of the faster speeds achieved using the SATA 6Gb/s interface.”
The 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch RealSSD C300 drives are expected to shift into full production during the first quarter of 2010, and will be manufactured in storage capacities of 128GBs and 256GBs. Prices have not yet been revealed.
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