Micron P420M 700GB PCI-E SSD (Windows bootable)

Hard Drive

Micron P420M 700GB PCI-E SSD (Windows bootable) Main Picture


Micron is a new addition to our solid-state drive lineup here at Puget Systems, and among the first NVM Express based SSDs we are carrying. The direct PCI-Express 2.0 x8 connection it uses allows for speeds far higher than the traditional SATA interface, and the P420M reaches 3,300 MB/s maximum read speeds. Write speeds aren't as impressive, around 600 MB/s - but for workloads that are largely read based this drive is a great choice.

There are some oddities about this line of drives, though. It completely disables sleep / standby modes when used as the primary drive, where the OS is installed, and it needs a driver to be loaded during OS installation - so we are only able to use it as a boot drive on Windows based systems at this time.

Note: This is a server/workstation oriented disk, and standby/sleep functionality is not guaranteed.  

Model: Micron MTFDGAR700MAX-1AG13ABYY

Specifications

Capacity 700 GB
Interface PCIe 2.0 x8
Form Factor 1/2 Height PCIe
Average Seek Time <.1 ms
Command Queueing NCQ
Endurance (TBW) 4600-9700 TBW
Performance
Sequential Read (Peak) 3300 MB/s
Sequential Write (Peak) 600 MB/s
Random 4KB Read 750000 IOPS
Random 4KB Write 50000 IOPS

Does not support standby if used as an OS drive. Allowed as a boot drive for Windows only.