Micron P400e Enterprise SATA SSD Review

• Micron P400e Enterprise SATA SSD Review

An Enterprise-Focused MLC SSD
Enabled by our advanced 25nm MLC NAND Flash, P400e SSDs provide reliable high performance for read-intensive applications such as boot drives, direct-attached storage, and blade servers. They can also serve as a primary drive in applications that need more endurance and data reliability than a client drive can provide.

We specifically designed the P400e drive in response to customer requests for a drive with a low total cost of ownership (TCO) and key features like high lifetime endurance, enterprise-level data protection, and a wide selection of capacities. Its excellent dollars-per-IOP performance makes it a competitive replacement for enterprise HDD solutions.

Key Features of Micron P400e Enterprise SATA SSD

Optimized for Low TCO
Our P400e drives provide outstanding IOPs-per-watt and dollars-per-IOP for enterprise solutions.

Excellent Read Performance
With read rates of up to 50,000 IOPs random and 350 MB/s sequential, P400e drives deliver focused enterprise performance.

Key Enterprise Features
Our P400e drives are equipped with a robust suite of enterprise features, including SMART attributes, hot-plug support, uCode, and enterprise data-path protection.

Start-to-Finish Quality
In addition to product advantages, we also offer unique NAND supplier advantages. Because we’re a NAND manufacturer with direct control over the memory design, process, and supply—you get the best that our product innovations, test and compatibility tools, and integrated support structure have to offer.


Why choose the P400e SSD?

• Fast boot and application-loading times: Delivers superior performance over HDD and other entry-level SSDs.
• Durability and endurance: SSD durability and reliability with enterprise-focused endurance specifications for long drive life.
• Enterprise data path protection: Multiple error-correction checkpoints ensure that your data is protected throughout the data path.
• Compatibility: Complies with SATA 6 Gb/s, making it an easy-to-adopt, drop-in HDD replacement, which increases design flexibility and speeds time-to-market.
• Low power: Consumes significantly less power than a typical enterprise HDD and requires almost zero cooling.
• NAND expertise: Leverages Micron’s proven quality and test capabilities to provide best-in-class drive reliability.

Ideal for use in applications that require:

• High read workloads
• Data reliability
• Fast data recovery
• Data integrity
• Enterprise endurance

Typical applications:

• Application loading
• OS loading for enterprise storage
• Read caching
• Multi-threaded read workloads
• Embedded applications
• Industrial applications

Features of Micron P400e Enterprise SATA SSD

P400e 2.5-Inch SATA NAND Flash SSD
MTFDDAK050MAR, MTFDDAK100MAR, MTFDDAK200MAR, MTFDDAK400MAR

• Micron® 25nm MLC NAND Flash
• RoHS-compliant package
• SATA 6 Gb/s interface

• ATA modes supported
– PIO mode 3, 4
– Multiword DMA mode 0, 1, 2
– Ultra DMA mode 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

• Industry-standard, 512-byte sector size support
• Hot-plug capable
• Native command queuing support with 32-command slot support
• ATA-8 ACS2 command set compliant
• ATA security feature command set and password login support
• Secure erase (data page) command set: fast and secure erase
• Self-monitoring, analysis, and reporting technology (SMART) command set

• 50GB Performance (steady state) 1, 2
– Sequential 64K Read: 350 MB/s
– Sequential 64K Write: 100 MB/s
– Random 4K Read: 50K IOPs
– Random 4K Write: 7K IOPs
– Read Latency: .5ms (TYP)
– Write Latency: 3.5ms (TYP)

• 100GB, 200GB, 400GB Performance (steady state) 1, 2
– Sequential 64K Read: 350 MB/s
– Sequential 64K Write: 140 MB/s
– Random 4K Read: 50K IOPs
– Random 4K Write: 7.5K IOPs

• Reliability
– MTBF: 1.2 million device hours 3
– Static and dynamic wear leveling
– Field-upgradable firmware
– Uncorrectable bit error rate (UBER): <1 sector per 1015 bits read
– Low power consumption
– TBD W TYP4

• Endurance: Total bytes written (TBW)
– 50GB: 87.5TB
– 100–400GB: 175TB

• Capacity 5 (unformatted): 50, 100, 200, and 400GB

• Mechanical – 7.0mm height
– SATA connector: 5V ±5%
– 2.5-inch drive: 100.5mm x 69.85mm x 7.0mm

• Field-updateable firmware
• Operating temperature
– Commercial (0°C to +70°C) 6

Notes:

• Typical I/O performance numbers as measured using Iometer with a queue depth of 32 and write cache disabled.
• 4K transfers used for READ/WRITE latency values.
• The product achieves a mean time between failure (MTBF) based on population statistics not relevant to individual units.
• Active power measured during execution of SECURE ERASE operation.
• 1GB = 1 billion bytes; formatted capacity is less.
• Drive case temperature.

Technical Specifications of Micron P400e Enterprise SATA SSD

Capacity: 400GB
Part Status: Production
Package: 2.5 SSD
MT/s: 6.0 Gb/s
Voltage: 5V
Op Temp: 0C to +70C
Interface: SATA
Read: 350 MB/s
Write: 140 MB/s
Product Name: RealSSD P400e

400GB SSD: MTFDDAK400MAR-1K1AA


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