The company Micron Technology announced in the next quarter to start GMRplus new SSD-drives, with capacity up to 256 GB, with three times lower cost per gigabyte, compared with existing devices. Under the brand manufacturer RealSSD promotes products targeted for the corporate sector, and for use in laptops. Models of a series of P200, application-oriented enterprise applications, built on the basis of flash memory with a one-cells (single-level cell, SLC), while more affordable devices used in a series of C200 flash memory with multilevel cells (multi - level cell, MLC). In line C200 drives will be offered to form factor 2.5 and 1.8, with 1.8 available choice “models with capacity of 32 to 128 GB.

While solid drives on the basis of SLC flash memory is more reliable, the use of flash memory with the MLC-mesh allows for less expensive devices with greater capacity. Therefore, according to Micron, in the near future SSD-storage type two completely replace the model with SLC segment of the user devices. Commenting on questions of reliability, representatives of Micron, Intel, Samsung and other manufacturers continue to insist that SSD characteristics quite comparable to those of traditional hard disks.

“SSD degradation occurs gradually, and we can predict the remainder of the storage resource based on its use” - argues Dean Klein (Dean Klein), vice president of market development for Micron memory. “A typical chip NAND MLC flash memory can provide tens of thousands of read-write cycles, while the possibility of NAND SLC characterized by hundreds of thousands of cycles. A typical laptop user writes daily from 2 to 4 gigabytes of information. Even if the count at 40-60 Gb per day, still life MLC at 10 thousand read-write cycles will not demand full for five years “- said Klein.

Unlike many released so far SSD-drives, a model of the C200 line will be equipped with an interface SATA, more productive compared to PATA. Declared speed reading for the C200 - up to 250 Mb / s, record - 100 MB / sec. Speaking about the ruler P200, Micron notes submillisekudny level of latency, compared with about 8 ms for hard disks. In doing so, the manufacturer claims that the P200 vdesyatero consume less power than typical hard drives are involved in SAC - 2.5 W active, and 0.3 W in standby mode, while requiring little or no cooling.