Micron 5210 ion is now available, the first ssd with qlc memory

Micron began shipping its 2.5-inch Micron 5210 ION SSD, positioning it as a replacement for 10, 000 RPM hard drives, thereby offering much better read access performance for roughly the same price as these. hard drives with high rotation speed.

Micron 5210 ION Now Available

The low cost of the Micron 5210 ION comes from the use of 64-layer 3D NAND memory in QLC form (4 bits per cell), thanks to which it has a capacity of 1.92TB, 3.84TB and 7.68TB in its different versions. This replacement drive has a low-speed 6Gbit / s SATA interface, with no NVMe. Micron 5210 ION is heavily optimized for write reads, with up to 90, 000 and 4, 500 random read and write IOPS, this translates to doing random writes at just 5% of random read speed. The sequential read and write bandwidth is 540 and 360 MB / s, respectively, much more balanced in this regard.

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Micron 5210 ION has a MTBF rating of 2 million hours and a five-year limited warranty. Micron says it has 256-bit AES encryption, TCG Enterprise options, end-to-end data path protection, and power loss protection. As a flash drive it is inherently slower than those based on TLC memory (3 bits per cell), although in exchange it has a much lower price per GB. Micron could use a faster interface but does not need it for the hard drive replacement market where it is promoting the 5210 ION.

Micron claims that the 5210 ION offers 75 times faster random read, 30 times faster random write, 2 times more sequential performance, and three times more energy efficient than 10, 000 RPM hard drives. Micron made an appointment for Gautam Shah, where a 2.3 TB dataset and 100, 000 images took 15.17 hours on an HDD, while the Micron 5210 ION completed the same task in just 1.87 hours.

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