In order to accommodate the "mainstream" enterprise PCIe-based SSD market, Micron has announced the new P420m based on the same design as the earlier released P320h but with 25nm MLC NAND.
As noted, the new P420m will use the same controller and pretty much the same firmware as the earlier release P320h that feature 34nm SLC NAND and will be available in 350 and 700GB 2.5-inch version as well as 700GB and 1.4TB in HHHL card form factor. The 2.5-inch version will feature random read performance of up to 430,000 IOPS with sequential read performance of up to impressive 1.8GB/s, ending up to be much faster than any other 2.5-inch SSD on the market.

The HHHL versions, based on a PCIe 8x gen2 design will be available in capacities of 700GB and 1.4TB and offer up to 750,000 IOPS of random read performance and up to 3GB/s of sequential read.

Micron says that P420m is designed for mainstream applications and even provided some results of it in SQL workload environment, showing it to have high average transactions per second with most concentrated data clusters.

According to Micron, the P420m is already sampling and is currently shipping to OEMs for qualification while full production is expected in June.





Source: Micron.com.