Micron Announces 5300 And 7300 Series Enterprise SSDs
Among several announcements today, Micron is updating two families of enterprise/datacenter SSDs to use their latest 96-layer 3D TLC NAND flash memory.
SATA Update
The new 5300 series SATA drives are a replacement for the 5200 series that uses 64L 3D TLC. Micron has made a few changes to capacity and form factor options, increasing the maximum capacity available in the highest endurance tier and bringing back the M.2 options that were available with the 5100 series but missing from the 5200 series. Starting at the high end, the 5300 MAX family is the replacement for the 5200 MAX, still with a 5 DWPD endurance rating and similar performance. The 5300 MAX also adds a new 3.84TB model, but this one is only rated for 3.5 DWPD and has significantly lower random write performance.
Moving down to the PRO tier, the 5300 generation expands the capacity range to now include sizes from 240GB all the way up to 7.68TB, where the 5200 PRO only offered 960GB through 3.84TB options. The en...