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Micron Broadens Choices for Storing the World’s Data With Announcement of New Enterprise and Consumer SSDs
New Dependable, Fast and Secure SSDs Cater to Broad Range of Performance and Capacity Needs News Highlights Micron® 7300 Series of NVMe™ SSDs Ideal for
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[{"type":"text","content":"New Dependable, Fast and Secure SSDs Cater to Broad Range of Performance and Capacity Needs\nNews Highlights\n Micron® 7300 Series of NVMe™ SSDs Ideal for mainstream NVMe flash storage in data centers across a wide spectrum of virtualized, I/O-sensitive workloads and high throughput environments like AIUses 96-layer 3D TLC NAND to deliver low power and reduce total cost of ownership for enterprise cloud customers Micron® 5300 Series of SATA SSDs Provides enhanced security and reliability — industry’s first enterprise SATA SSD built on 96-layer 3D TLC NANDExtends industry’s broadest SATA portfolio with best-in-class mean time to failure1 Crucial® X8 Portable SSD Is Micron’s first consumer portable SSDDelivers phenomenally fast transfer times and high capacity for consumers storing photos, videos and documents, as well as curating music and video collectionsProvides gamers quick access to their entire game libraries SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 24, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MICRON INSIGHT — Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today unveiled new solid-state drives (SSDs) that expand Micron’s broad portfolio of drives available to both consumer and enterprise customers for storing the world’s data. The new Micron® 7300 NVMe series and Micron® 5300 SATA series of SSDs enable enterprises to modernize, economize and maximize return on their data center investments. Addressing consumers’ need for mobility, Micron also announced its entry into the consumer portable SSD market with the launch of its Crucial® X8 Portable SSD. “We are excited to introduce these new products that significantly expand our addressable market — with mainstream NVMe SSDs for the datacenter and portable SSDs for consumers — while building on our leadership in enterprise SATA SSDs,” said Sumit Sadana, executive vice president and chief business officer of Micron. “Micron’s growing portfolio of high-value storage solutions is built on industry-leading 3D NAND technology and provides customers a broad set of options to address their increasing data storage needs.” Analyst firm IDC forecasts that the world’s data will grow from 33ZB in 2018 to 175ZB in 2025.2 Data centers will require higher-performance enterprise-class drives that can sustain heavy workloads to ensure that organizations have faster access to their data. In parallel, growing volumes of data are increasing av...