Micron has recently announced that its blistering fast RealSSD C300 series is now available for retail purchase.
Boasting IMFT’s industry-leading 34nm NAND flash, a SATA 6Gbps interface and an ONFI 2.1 Flash interface, the C300 originally promised unprecedented speeds of 355/215MBps read/write.
While that write performance is comparable to today’s leading SSDs, the read performance is more than 100MB/s ahead of most. In the time since its December announcement, the C300 series has received several excellent reviews (here and here), which posted numbers even higher than expected:
- 383MBps peak sustained read (ATTO)
- 227MBps peak sustained write (ATTO)
- 60MBps random 4k reads (CrystalDiskMark)
- 30MBps random 4k writes (CrystalDiskMark)
- 627 random read size IOPS (HD Tune)
- 357 random write size IOPS (HD Tune)
Numbers like these, particularly the 4k random reads that Windows thrives on, puts the C300 series miles above any other competitor in the market. The barrier to entry is steep–$500 and $800 for 128GB or 256GB, respectively–but that’s the price you pay for access to what Micron has, over night, defined as the big leagues.
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