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Micron 5210 ION SSD Now Generally Available

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Micron Technology, Inc., today announced the next step towards market leadership for its quad-level cell (QLC) NAND technology with immediate broad market availability of the popular Micron 5210 ION enterprise SATA SSD, the world's first QLC SSD, which began shipping to select customers and partners in May of this year. Available through global distributors, the Micron 5210 ION enterprise SATA SSD further accelerates Micron's lead in the QLC market, enabling replacement of hard disk drives (HDDs) with SSDs and building on Micron's recent launch of the Crucial P1 NVMe QLC SSD for consumer markets.

Enterprise storage needs are increasing as data center applications deliver real-time user insights and intelligent and enhanced user experiences, leveraging artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, big data and real-time analytics. At the same time, there is a growing consumer need for higher storage capacity to support digital experiences. QLC SSDs are uniquely designed to address these requirements.



"Since launching the world's first QLC SSD and now making it available broadly to the market, Micron is enabling the rapid shift from slow, power-hungry HDDs to solid state drives," said Derek Dicker, Micron's corporate vice president and general manager of the Storage Business Unit. "QLC technology will become ubiquitous as today's enterprise and consumer segments start reaping the inherent advantages of SSDs over HDDs, now delivered at similar price points offered by HDDs."

High-density Micron QLC 64-layer 3D NAND flash media achieves densities of one terabit on a single chip, enabled by next-generation cell architecture, and offers an attractive option to AI and machine learning professionals. Providing the ease of SATA with the economics and speed of QLC NAND, the Micron 5210 ION SSD has already hastened the speed at which AI learns.

"By switching to QLC SSDs from hard disk drives, our machine learning workloads complete eight times faster for TensorFlow processing, TFRecord creation, ingest and image classification," said Gautam Shah, CEO of Colfax International, a leading machine learning solution provider. "We found that a 2.3TB, 100,000 image dataset took 15.17 hours on our HDD platform while the Micron 5210 ION completed the same task in just 1.87 hours, resulting in 13 hours of savings on an everyday task. The more machine learning you do and the bigger your dataset, the more your time savings will compound."

"With AI and deep learning transforming every industry, we see exponential demand for deep-learning-specific, GPU-accelerated compute and high-performance storage solutions," said Dr. Rene Meyer, vice president of technology at AMAX, a leading deep learning solutions provider. "Fast training data access is crucial to efficient model training. Replacing a traditional 64TB HDD centralized shared storage array with an all-flash Micron 5210 array, we found a 10x bandwidth increase and a notable reduction of model training times. The drive's combination of fast read performance coupled with cost-reducing QLC NAND and the SATA interface make the 5210 an easy choice for shared centralized storage solutions."

Key Features and Target Workloads of the Micron 5210 ION SSD
The Micron 5210 ION arrives in capacities up to 7.68TB in the affordable and HDD-compatible 2.5-inch (7mm) SATA form factor. Accessing data at the speed of flash, the Micron 5210 ION delivers sequential read speeds of 540 MB/s and up to 90,000 random read IOPS. Compared to the largest 10K RPM HDDs available, the Micron 5210 ION delivers 175 times faster random reads, 30 times faster random writes and 2 times faster sequential throughput.1 It's also three times more energy efficient, fueling a lower terabyte-to-terabyte total cost of ownership. The slim 2.5-inch form factor also allows users to pack twice as many Micron 5210 ION SSDs into the typical 2U rack and save on power, cooling, licenses and floor space.2

Ideal for read-intensive workloads such as the data lakes that feed AI, machine learning, deep learning and other read-intensive environments - real-time analytics, big data, object stores, business intelligence, NoSQL databases, media streaming and more - the Micron 5210 ION is architected to meet the needs of the fastest-growing enterprise workloads.

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The Micron 5210 ION SSD is now in mass production and immediately available through leading global distributors, resellers and system builders - at prices comparable to 10K RPM HDDs.

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"Micron is enabling the rapid shift from slow, power-hungry HDDs to solid state drives"

what a huge waste of time, money & resources IMHO....ssd's are sooooooo 2015-ish!

they should be concentrating on "Micron is enabling the rapid shift from slow, power-hungry HDDs AND solid state drives to low power, superfast NVME m.2 drives" which would spur faster adoption and lower prices, thereby increasing demand and sales, a win-win for everyone :)
 
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"Micron is enabling the rapid shift from slow, power-hungry HDDs to solid state drives"

what a huge waste of time, money & resources IMHO....ssd's are sooooooo 2015-ish!

they should be concentrating on "Micron is enabling the rapid shift from slow, power-hungry HDDs AND solid state drives to low power, superfast NVME m.2 drives" which would spur faster adoption and lower prices, thereby increasing demand and sales, a win-win for everyone :)


This is an enterprise drive. M.2 isn't used much there as it isn't really a hot-swappable form factor.
 
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