Micron Introduces 25-nanometer SSD

Posted on January 29th, 2011 by Shane

Micron Introduces 25-nanometer SSD


The RealSSD C400 offers a performance of up to 260 MByte / s for writes and a read rate of up to 415 MByte / s.

Micron Technology SSD has a new series presented on the basis of the recently introduced 25-nanometer process. The RealSSD C400 is from March, with capacity 64-512 GB in 1.8 – to be available and 2.5-inch height. As with its predecessor the C300 Micron SSD equipped with a SATA-6-GBit/s-Schnittstelle from. AMD Chipsets offer this type of connection for some time. The new Intel chipsets Series 6, for the operation of the recently announced Sandy Bridge processors support this operation mode. The stated performance values of Micron 415 MB / s read speed and write speed of up to 260 MByte / s could not be reached SATA-3-GBit/s-Schnittstellen. Compared with the previous model C300, which is one of the fastest SSDs could Micron performance by 17 (read) and 20 per cent increase (letter).

Micron has equipped the PC and notebook manufacturers are already in test samples. Mass production is expected to begin in February. Micron’s daughter Crucial markets the RealSSD C400. The manufacturer expects to availability for the end user in the first quarter of 2011. For the 512-gigabyte model requires a price of 600 euros Micron, the 256-gigabyte version will cost just under 300 euros. For the smallest model at 128 and 64 GB of capacity required by the manufacturer 160 or 100 euros.

For the performance of a PC, the installation of an SSD do wonders. The increase in power for the entire system through the use of a SSD is compared to conventional hard drives in just over 60 percent. The increased performance, improved operating system support and falling prices boost the appeal of the SSD technology.

For users who place high demands on performance, well worth the investment, despite higher prices compared to magnetic hard drives yet. achieved in the important category for the performance of random read and write operations of 4-kilobyte blocks such as the OCZ Summit 24.6 MB per second, a 35-times higher data rate than the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11, reaching only 0.696 MB / sec. The benchmark PCMark Vantage, which determines the performance of the overall system is the projection of the SSD after all, still 62 percent.

A look at the benchmarks also shows that the system is achieved with a 1.6 GHz Core i7 in connection with the OCZ SSD higher performance than a Core i7 with 3.2 GHz and the magnetic disk from Seagate. Of course, you do not always benefit from the improved reading and writing performance of the SSD. A program such as Cinema 4D rendering by using a little faster SSD. In modern 3D games, it looks the other hand, again from different. Here, the user benefits from the fast loading times compressed game data. SSD also plays to its strengths when launching applications or when loading large files. pass for the launch of Photoshop CS4 with the SSD only 5 seconds, while the charge of the program on the magnetic disk as long as 16 seconds.

For a desktop computer separates the SSD to replace the hard drive yet. For the extensive storage of music and films, she is still too expensive. Finally, sufficient for the consumption of this content is already the data rate of an iPod. Therefore, the SSD is only in the desktop as a "turbocharger" for operating system and applications, provide the make of the performance of the memory subsystem great demand. The reaction speed of a PC with SSD is enormous. Benchmark numbers and graphics can convey this enormous increase in performance adequately. Anyone who has worked with a PC or notebook equipped with a high performance SSD is reluctant to want to work again with magnetic disks.

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