DGAP-News: Micron Announces World–s Fastest Enterprise Solid-State Storage System Featuring PCI Express

Micron Technology, Inc.

02.06.2011 06:00
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New PCI Express Storage System Boosts Enterprise Efficiency, Accelerates System
Responsiveness&Extends Data Integrity

BOISE, Idaho, 2011-06-02 06:00 CEST (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) —
Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:MU) today announced a new portfolio of PCI
Express (PCIe) solid-state storage systems, the RealSSD? P320h solid-state
drive (SSD) series. This new RealSSD P320h series delivers extreme performance
and endurance demanded by data-intensive enterprise applications including
cloud computing, high-performance computing, data analytics, business
intelligence, and video on demand. These new forms of data storing, accessing
and sharing are quickly challenging the typical enterprise storage model of
spinning disks, presenting great opportunity for PCIe SSDs.

–Micron is defining a whole new category of enterprise-class storage with our
P320h PCIe solid-state storage systems,– said Gary Gentry, general manager,
enterprise division, Micron–s NAND solutions group. –The P320h provides
customers with the most compelling performance solution in the industry.–

The P320h system uses Micron–s proven 34-nanometer (nm) single-level cell (SLC)
NAND flash memory technology, which provides two different user capacities: 350
gigabyte (GB) and 700GB. From the NAND silicon to the controller to the
complete system solution, the P320h SSD is designed and developed by Micron.

For performance, the P320h series reaches a new standard among current PCIe
systems, more than doubling the sequential read and write speeds compared to
the nearest competitor?achieving up to 3GBs of sustained data throughput per
second. In terms of input/output operations per second (IOPS), a common method
used in the enterprise market for benchmarking relative performance, the P320h
series reaches a maximum of 750,000 IOPS read and 341,000 IOPS write speeds.

A tremendous amount of data is read and accessed from cloud computing
applications such as YouTube, Facebook and Netflix. According to IDC, the
amount of digital content created and replicated throughout 2010 reached 1.2
zettabytes.1 For fast access to this information, an extremely fast backend
infrastructure is required, especially from the storage system. A P320h drive
(working in a cloud media streaming application) could serve data fast enough
to feed 1,500 simultaneous individual HD video streams.2

Other applications that benefit from high-performance PCIe SSDs include Web
servers and online transaction processing databases. The high random
performance of the P320h system is equivalent to the amount of IOPS an Exchange
server would need to support more than 1.5 million Outlook users.3
Additionally, for a traditional transactional database, such as an online bank
operation transferring funds from one type of account to another, the P320h can
achieve the same throughput as nearly 5,000 hard drives.4 For more details on
the performance advantages of Micron–s P320h systems, visit
www.micron.com/ssd/pcie.

The P320h features Micron–s proprietary redundant array of independent NAND
(RAIN) management technology that is designed to ensure enterprise-class data
protection by replicating data across the NAND flash memory channels. The P320h
drive also provides enterprise-class levels of endurance withthe 700GB drive
able to write 28 terabytes of data every day for five years.

The first products in Micron–s P320h series will be available in a full height,
half-length form factor, measuring 111.15mm wide x 167.65mm long x 14.47mm
thick. Micron has additional PCIe form factors under development, which we plan
to introduce later this year. Micron is now delivering early samples of the
P320h, with mass production expected to begin in the third quarter.

1 According to an IDC white paper –The Digital Universe Decade – Are You
Ready?– sponsored by EMC Corporation

2 Using today–s standard rates for video on demand streams (compressed MPEG2
video at 16Mb/s per stream). The P320h reaches 3GB/s sequential reads or 3,000
Mb/s sequential reads.

3 Assuming Outlook Mail servers running Exchange Server 2007 require 0.32 IOPS
per –Heavy– user, 750k read IOPS provides enough bandwidth to support 2,343,750
users (750,000/.32); 341k write IOPS equates to 1,065,635 (341,000/.32).
According data on the Microsoft Exchange Server TechCenter,
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb738147%28EXCHG.80%29.aspx

4 These numbers are based on standard 15k SAS HDD specs of 153 IOPS per drive.
(750,000/153 = 4901.96)

Relevant Links

There are other ways to stay up-to-date on Micron news:

— Micron Innovations Blog: www.micronblogs.com
— Micron on Twitter: http://twitter.com/microntechnews and
http://twitter.com/realssd
— Micron Pressroom: www.micron.com/media

About Micron

Micron Technology, Inc., is one of the world–s leading providers of advanced
semiconductor solutions. Through its worldwide operations, Micron manufactures
and markets a full range of DRAM, NAND and NOR flash memory, as well as other
innovative memory technologies, packaging solutions and semiconductor systems
for use in leading-edge computing, consumer, networking, embedded and mobile
products. Micron–s common stock is traded on the NASDAQ under the MU symbol. To
learn more about Micron Technology, Inc., visit www.micron.com.

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?2011 Micron Technology, Inc. All rights reserved. Information is subject to
change without notice. –Micron– and the Micron logo are registered trademarks
of Micron Technology, Inc. –RealSSD– is a trademark of Micron Technology, Inc.
All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding the production
of Micron–s new P320h PCIe SSDs. Actual events or results may differ materially
from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Please refer to the
documents Micron files on a consolidated basis from time to time with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, specifically Micron–s most recent Form 10-K
and Form 10-Q. These documents contain and identify important factors that
could cause the actual results for Micron on a consolidated basis to differ
materially from those contained in our forward-looking statements (see Certain
Factors). Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the
forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee future results,
levels of activity, performance or achievements.

CONTACT: Kirstin Bordner
Micron Technology, Inc.
(208) 368-5487
kbordner@micron.com
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