Micron enter SSD market with its RealSSD drives

November 29th, 2007

There’s a new kid on the SSD block, Micron have just announced a range of 1.8 inch and 2.8 inch SSD units varying in capacity all the way from 1 GB to 64 GB, the RealSSD. Micron, more well known for their memory manufacturing, enter the drive market with these new units

“SSDs are becoming the new storage medium, fundamentally altering the way data is stored,” said Dean Klein, Micron vice president of memory system development. “The storage market is ripe for innovation, and it’s an opportunity Micron is embracing given our expertise in NAND. We know how to manage NAND flash to work best with controllers, allowing us to develop an optimized SSD solution for every application.”

The new 32 GB and 64 GB offerings sport a native SATA inteface removing the need for a SATA bridge chip, suck less than two watts of power whilst transferring zeroes and ones and apparently suck ‘dramatically’ less power in idle and standby mode.

Strangely there’s no specs on actual read/write speeds which drive manufacturers tend to live and die by, so may be the RealSSD units don’t quite live up to the hype. There’s no price indicator either, but I’m guessing the term ‘expensive’ could be applied to these suckers despite being a relative term. Despite all this, competition is always good and kudos must go to Micron entering the SSD fray which is sure to hot up in the very near future.

Source: BusinessWire