Recently, Micron company held a home event, during which told about the plans for the near future. Generally speaking topics related to the sphere of enterprise solutions for data storage, but on the client SSD is also not forgotten. So, in the near future the company will begin shipping the first branded SSD memory on the multilayer 3D NAND TLC. It will be a series Crucial MX300 384 Gb (48 Gb) chips 3D NAND TLC. In June, the company will release two SSD Series for OEM-customers - 1100 and 2100. The specifications of all new products were not disclosed. Judging by the photos from the event, drives in M.2 SATA form factor will be on the Marvell controller (possibly 88SS1074), and M.2 PCIe on Silicon Motion controllers (possibly SM2260).
As for the SSD for enterprise systems, then they are already prepared to release the PCIe SSD-series 9100 and 7100. 9100 SSD series will focus on software-configurable storage system, which the company develops SymbolicIO, and SSD 7100 series has been designed in collaboration with Seagate with an eye to the SAS interface.
However, the main theme of the event was different. Micron Company is going to change the strategy of promotion of branded SSD for corporate clients. Instead of component supply and storage company Micron wants to assert itself as a provider of integrated solutions. More precise, complex solutions on the platform level, not ready-to-operate storage facilities. This means that Micron strengthens the direction of program support of its products. Independent developers will get reference platform with all the necessary software for data warehousing company on the SSD. Also, the company will support independent developers consultations, which created a new center of the company - Storage Solutions Center.
The reference architecture will be distributed under the brand Micron Accelerated Solutions. The first such platform will be the development of Supermicro Service VMWare Virtual SAN and SSD Micron M510DC. Such systems are developed using Ceph distributed filesystem and network operating system Nexenta. Everything is good, but the company chose to keep silent about the immediate availability of drives with 3D XPoint memory. Related Products :
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