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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Micron brings out 2.5-inch SAS SSD, anticipates decline of SATA SSD

Looking to go where the market appears to be heading, Micron has added a 6 Gbps Serial-Attached SCSI drive to its solid-state storage lineup with the release of the P410m solid-state drive. The 2.5-inch, 7 millimeter SAS drive is available in 100 GB, 200 GB and 400 GB capacities.

The P410m uses 25 nanometer multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash, and is the Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) version of Micron's P400m SATA interface solid-state drive (SSD). It is Micron's first SAS SSD and uses the company's XPERT performance and reliability technology, which includes on-board power-loss protection, and a redundant array of independent NAND (RAIN), the flash equivalent of a RAID.

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