Micron Boosts Data Center Storage Security With New SATA Solid State Drive Featuring Enterprise Data Encryption

M510DC SSD Designed to Replace Hard Drives in the Rapidly Growing Cloud Application Space Where Read Performance and Data Security Are Critical

Key Messages:

• First TCG Enterprise-level hardware encryption for SSDs
• Dramatically better performance, lower power and better overall lifetime costs
• Ideal for read-optimized applications like content delivery, customer web applications and business analytic databases
• Third-generation XPERT firmware architecture features, which include Full Power Low Unique Solutions (PLUS) protection

BOISE, Idaho, July 15, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:MU) has announced a new encryption-enhanced solid state drive (SSD) for read-centric data center workloads, accelerating the transition from legacy hard disk drives (HDDs) to higher-performance flash-based storage. The M510DC combines a suite of firmware data protection features with the market's first true TCG Enterprise-level data encryption for SSDs-a capability that is of paramount importance to the highly scrutinized medical, banking and government industries.

The M510DC SATA SSD provides a balance of performance, security, enterprise reliability, power and cost. The M510DC SSD is an ideal solution for improving application load times for content delivery networks (CDNs) and enhancing response times to enable quicker decisions in big data analytics.

While early enterprise SSD deployments focused on high-endurance drives, data from Greg Wong, founder and principal analyst at Forward Insights, reveals that two-thirds of today's newly optimized data center SSD purchases require one drive fill per day or less. These market changes create a distinct opportunity for customers to focus on a cost-optimized SSD like the M510DC.

Deploying SSDs rather than traditional hard disk drives helps optimize workload response times around many of today's business-critical, read-centric deployments such as CDNs, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments and business intelligence/decision support systems using database management. In the past, the cost of SSDs has inhibited users from budgeting for and adopting SSDs, but the improved value, performance and reliability of Micron's M510DC SSD opens the door for wider use.