Micron releases SATA SSD for data centers

BOISE, USA: Micron Technology Inc., announced a new enterprise-class solid state drive (SSD) designed specifically for data center storage platforms.

Enterprise applications are experiencing tremendous new demands for greater data throughput due to rapid growth in mobile applications, cloud services and connected devices. Micron's new M500DC SATA SSD addresses this growing need by providing the performance and data protection features of an enterprise-class drive at a great value.

"System administrators are realizing that there is a need for an SSD that delivers more enterprise-features than a client drive at a more affordable price than most enterprise drives," said Greg Wong, founder and principal analyst at Forward Insights. "Products such as Micron's M500DC SSD offer data centers the optimal balance of enterprise class features, performance and price for demanding 24/7 enterprise workloads."

Designed to manage the massive amount of digital information flowing in and out of data centers every day, the M500DC is an important evolution in Micron's SSD portfolio. The drive is tailored for the critical applications that demand this next generation storage: transactional databases, virtualization, big data analytics and on-demand content streaming.

This drive was designed to provide endurance of multiple drive fills per day, providing a balanced option between read-centric drives and high-end enterprise drives.