If you are a user with large space requirements, we are sure that it will be useful for you, although you may not be able to afford it as such if you are an ordinary worker. And it is that Micron announced what was expected, since it is not only the beginning of a series of products as such, but of a new technology included in them. These are the Micron 7450.
And what’s new with them? Well, first of all that this is a comprehensive series that encompasses various capacities and form factors and some are for data centers, SQL and NoSQL databases, virtualization or just to servers. But it is above all the fact of being the first series of the brand with TLC and 176 layers.
Micron 7450: SSDs that rival server hard drives
Just a few days ago we talked about Micron’s own forecast, to which Huawei was added for its data centers. Well, the smoke has cleared and we finally have these new Micron 7450s in front of us.
The figure is undoubtedly a record: 176 vertical layers with 3 bits per cell and especially in high capacity. SSD with QLC and said number of layers was already on the market from Micron itself with its 2400 series, but not with 15TB and more PCIe 4.0 with diabolical performance.
Sizes range from 400 GB up to 15.36 TB mentioned in three different form factors: U.3 7mm and 15mm, E1.S 5.9 mm, 15 mm and 25 mm and M.2 with the most common for the gaming industry and the 22×80mm and 22×110mm editions.
The curiosity of these SSDs is that of all the existing models and sizes there are only three that can be PCIe 4.0: the two in U.3 format (7 mm and 15 mm) and the 7.68 TB E1 version .S. In terms of performance, there are also peculiarities to take into account.
Up to 6.8 GB/s and 1 million IOPS
The data here is quite interesting, because not everyone reaches the maximum possible speed. What is certain is that the U.3 form factor and higher capacity models achieve the desired capacity 6.8 GB/s
Where we see a difference is precisely in the MAX range, since what improves in all the series presented is something very important, such as IOPS. Normally and as we see, the capacity is reduced at the expense of obtaining maximum performance. Thus, for example, within the U.3 in MAX, the maximum capacity would be 12.8 TB for the named speeds and the 1,000,000 IOPS in reading and 410,000 IOPS in writing.
In addition to this, we must count on the impressive durability shown by all the units, since it is a minimum of 800TBW up to an incredible maximum of 70,000TBW. Finally, we have to talk about the M.2 for PC, which has nothing we haven’t seen in terms of capacity or speed, but durability is another story. And it is that they will reach the 17,500TBWsomething that no common user will of course be able to achieve, where we could say that we have an SSD for our whole life.
On the other hand, there is not a single price data, which surely will not come cheap considering the data presented just above.