When it comes to servers the world of ICT is slowly moving towards solid state storage for their many benefits over the older spinning disks, but with such a fractured market nailing down one solution can be difficult especially as many companies can’t suit all your needs which may lead to the unenviable situation of depending on multiple suppliers and brands.
Enter Micron, one of the biggest names in storage and memory and a trusted seal of quality when it comes to hardware. The company’s Micron 7400 SSD with NVMe range is built on the pillars of PCIe Gen4 performance, multiple form factors, power and security to offer a comprehensive storage solution to any datacentre.
The Micron 7400 SSD with NVMe range doesn’t just offer fantastic performance thanks to the PCIe Gen4 interface, but performance that scales. Micron is adamant that this new family of drives offers more than double the throughput of its last-generation mainstream SSDs.
Also compared to last generation is improvements in tests such as four-corners performance which measures random read and write input/output operations per second (IOPS) with a 4K transfer size. Once again these new devices show massive improvements in aggregate performance.
And, to cap off this impressive showing in speed, this range is also fully backwards compatible with PCIe Gen3 systems. For those taking a gradual approach to upgrading servers, instead of a complete replacement, this means that new features of the Micron 7400 SSD with NVMe range can be enjoyed today with even more speed and functionality unlocked later through PCIe Gen4.
When it comes to form factors Micron boasts the broadest SSD portfolio for data centre infrastructure innovation. U.3, M.2 and E1.S form factors are available and you can see the large Micron 7400 SSD family in the image below.
The multiple form factors mean that server operators can choose what kind of storage they want to suit their power needs especially when efficiency and heat output are top priorities. Bringing down the overall energy usage of a datacentre is of continual importance and solid state storage means a different approach must be taken when it comes to cooling after using spinning disks for so long.
Once again the Micron 7400 SSD family improves over previous generations in terms of efficiency with more IOPS per watt and more megabyte per second (MB/s) per watt.
Heatsink options and smaller physical sizes open many avenues when it comes to heat dissipation once again offering more options for individual and business needs.
The last pillar setting the Micron 7400 SSD products apart is security. Micron has leaned on generations of work in this area with no less than seven new security features in this range of products to meet evolving threats head on. This includes features such as Asymmetric Roots of Trust allowing for root keys to be revoked and Secure Execution Environment which has dedicated security processing hardware for security-related function isolation.
These are just the new security features with existing ones such as IEEE-1667 and TCG-Opal 2.01 built in from the start.
