August 8, 2008 Solid State Drives (SSDs) have found a happy home in laptop computers in recent times due largely to their size, durability and low power consumption compared to traditional hard drives.

Now, with SSDcapacities increasing, Micron Technology believe SSDs can also find a new home in enterprise server systems where historically hard disk drives have reigned to provide a dramatic improvement in capacity, power and performance for the applications they serve. To this end they are releasing new SSDs for enterprise computing and notebook applications - the enterprise-class RealSSD P200 and the client-focused RealSSD C200.

Micron’s RealSSD P200 offerings are designed to enable enterprise applications to deliver the necessary bandwidth and performance while reducing the strain on the data center power budget. They range in density from 16 gigabytes (GBs) to 128GBs and are available in a standard 2.5-inch form factor. Using Micron’s high-performance single-level cell (SLC) NANDtechnology, the P200 provides a 3Gb/s SATA-based sequential read and write speed of up to a maximum of 250 megabytes per second (MB/s).