Micron announced at its event Analyst and Investor the first QLC memory-based SSD, the Micron 5210 ION, which is already being shipped to select first-time customers. It is a new solid-state storage device that targets read-intensive workloads in artificial intelligence and the cloud, achieving up to 33% more density than the previous generation TLC NAND memory based.
Micron 5210 ION is the first QLC memory based SSD
The new Micron 5210 ION SSD has been optimized for cloud-intensive workloads such as artificial intelligence, automatic learning, real-time analysis, big data and media streaming, so it’s a business unit, not something you’ll see at the user level.
Micron ION 5210 is available in 2.5 inches (7 mm) SATA form factor in capacities ranging from 1.92TB to 7.68TB. A typical 1U, 10 compartment chassis can be filled with 10 Micron 5210 ION 7.68TB drives to achieve the capacity to store 76.8TB of data, which is impressive and will help data developers meet today’s demands with room for future growth. Hidden inside is Intel and Micron’s 96-layer QLC NAND memory technology, which offers tremendous storage density.
According to Sumit Sadana, executive vice president and chief business officer of Micron, the Micron ION 5210 will mark the start of a new generation of storage products that will enable corporate and cloud customers to experience the benefits of NAND memory in an expanding array or workload previously relegated to power-hungry, slow hard drives.
No details on the prices of these new SSDs have been given so far, and they are expected to reach the market in the autumn, when prices, strength, and speeds will be discussed.