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Micron company , which is a long-term Intel partner to produce solid-state memory and the parent of Crucial company , at CES 2013 announced the availability of a new drives series M500. In fact, the M500 series is the successor to the popular drives Crucial M4, which earned respect among enthusiasts.
It is quite natural that Micron uses solid-state memory storage M500 own production - in this case we are talking about chips like MLC, made on 20-nm technology. The high storage density and the cost of memory production allowed Micron to assign a price tag for the model 960 GB capacity that does not exceed $ 600. This is well below the cost of most drives of this size produced by competitors. The corresponding form factor SSD 2.5 "will be available this quarter - in retail it will be offered under the brand Crucial. In this series will be also released models drive capacity 480 GB, 240 GB and 120 GB.
There are other form factors and storage. Based on NGFF standard for ultrabooks and tablets M.2 limited storage size of 80 x 22 x 3.5 mm. mSATA device provides overall dimensions 50.8 x 29.85 x 3.75 mm. In both cases the mass storage does not exceed 10 g, and the limit of their capacity is 480 GB. They will go on sale in the second quarter, Micron itself will offer them to the OEM-market manufacturers of mobile devices. Crucial-branded products will be available in retail stores
As is the case with Crucial M4, drives use Marvell controller is designed with a modified firmware Micron. This time it is a new chip Marvell 88SS9187. It supports eight channels NAND, hardware accelerated encryption algorithm AES, the quick awakening and lower power consumption in the standby mode, the drive up to 5 mW. Capacitors in the drive can help protect against data loss when power is off. Under load, the drive consumes less than 150 mW.
Two older models provide read speed 500 MB / s, write - 400 MB / s. When you work with arbitrary data blocks 4 KB data transfer rate equal to 80,000 IOPS per second.
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