This week Micron announced new capacities and use cases for its QLC-based SSD, the Micron 5210 ION enterprise SATA SSD. This drive is predominantly aimed at replacing HDDs in the data center. These QLC drives will bring better performance and lower power usage without breaking the bank.
This week Micron announced new capacities and use cases for its QLC-based SSD, the Micron 5210 ION enterprise SATA SSD. This drive is predominantly aimed at replacing HDDs in the data center. These QLC drives will bring better performance and lower power usage without breaking the bank.
HDDs have a place in the data center and most likely will keep having a place for years to come. However, several workloads that started on HDDs will be better served moving to flash-based storage (e.g. SQL and NoSQL databases, big data and analytics, object stores, and vSAN capacity tiers). While these workloads used to be stored on 10K HDDs with capacity around 1TB, they will see a definite performance advantage switching over to Micron 5210 SSDs. The company states that users will see 175x read performance, 2x write performance, and up to 3x energy savings.
New 5210 Product Developments:
Capacity | 960GB | 1.92TB | 3.84TB | 7.68TB | |
Performance | |||||
Sequential reads (MB/s) | 540 | 540 | 540 | 540 | |
Sequential writes (MB/s) | 130 | 260 | 350 | 360 | |
Random reads (K IOPS) | 40 | 70 | 83 | 90 | |
Random writes (K IOPS) | 7 | 13 | 6.5 | 4.5 | |
Endurance | |||||
100% 128K Sequential Writes | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.8 | |
90% 128K Sequential Writes/ 10% 4K Random Writes | 0.71 | 0.72 | 0.62 | 0.56 | |
80% 128K Sequential Writes / 20% 4K Random Writes | 0.65 | 0.66 | 0.56 | 0.39 | |
70% 128K Sequential Writes / 30% 4K Random Writes | 0.56 | 0.56 | 0.41 | 0.27 | |
50% 128K Sequential Writes / 50% 4K Random Writes | 0.43 | 0.44 | 0.25 | 0.16 | |
100% 4K Random Writes | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.09 | 0.05 | |
Basic Attributes | |||||
Interface | SATA 6 Gb/s | ||||
Form factor | 2.5-inch, 7mm | ||||
NAND | Micron 3D QLC NAND | ||||
Encryption | AES 256-bit (TCG Enterprise options available) | ||||
Reliability | MTTF 2 million device hours | ||||
UBER | <1 sector per 1017 bits read | ||||
Warranty | 5 years | ||||
Environmental characteristics | |||||
Power consumption | Idle: 1.5W Sequential read: 2.8W max Sequential write: 6.3W max | ||||
Temperature (operating) | 0-70° C | ||||
Physical characteristics | |||||
Size (L x W x H) | 100.45mm x 69.85mm x 7.00mm | ||||
Weight | <70g |
Availability
The Micron 5210 ION SSD is in mass production and should be available through the major server OEMs.
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