Micron Technology has updated its RealSSD C400 series of solid-state drives for small mSATA packages.
Basically, Micron is delivering the same performance of previous C400 products but in a 1.2 x 2.0 inch (3cm x 5cm) mSATA size -- the size typically used in thin laptops.
SSDs are faster than the standard spinning hard disk drives found in mainstream laptops (and often a lot faster).
The higher-capacity Micron models deliver the best performance. For example, the 256GB version has a read rate of 500 megabytes per second (MB/s) and write speed of 260 MB/s. The smaller-capacity 32GB SSD has write performance of only 50 MB/s. All models are based on a 6-gigabits-per-second SATA interface.
Large-capacity models (including a 128GB part) are intended as hard disk drive replacements (in Windows laptops, for example). While the smaller capacity models can act as a cache drive in dual-drive (HDD/SSD) systems, Micron said.
"Our new mSATA delivers on the true promise of SSD technology -- high-performance storage in a tiny, low-power package," Justin Sykes, Micron's general manager of client SSD solutions, said in a statement.
Anandtech did benchmark tests of the C400 mSATA drives. "It's...insane to think that you can pull 500MB/s from something this small...I have no issues recommending this drive should you be in the market for an mSATA based SSD," Anandtech said.
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