Micron claims that the P200 is more than 10 times faster at accessing transactional data when compared to a typical enterprise HDD and consumes about one-tenth the power of a typical data center hard drive, operating at 2.5 watts in active mode and under at 0.3 watts in idle. The P200 also operates at a temperature range of zero to +70 degrees Celsiusand requires almost zero cooling, keeping power consumption low. With reliability being a major consideration for server systems the P200 offers a mean time between failure (MTBF) rate of approximately two million hours compared to 300,000 to 500,000 MTBF for a traditional HDD.

Micron haven’t overlooked the laptopmarket either with the RealSSD C200 drives designed using Micron’s multi-level cell (MLC) NAND process technology. They will be available in 2.5-inch and 1.8-inch form factors with the 2.5-inch C200 to be offered in densities of up to 256GBs and the 1.8-inch C200 to be available in densities from 32GBs to 128GBs. Using a 3 Gb/s SATA interface, the C200 products provide a read speed of up to 250 MB/s and a write speed of up to 100 MB/s offering improved boot and application load times and lower power consumption for smaller form factor notebook designs such as the XO-2.

Micron's RealSSD P200 and C200 drives are sampling now with mass production expected in the fourth quarter of 2008.