Sun and Micron Give Increase Flash Lifespan

December 22, 2008: Sun Microsystems and Micron have revealed that they have been collaborating to extend the lifespan of flash-based storage, and announced that they have successfully achieved one million write cycles.

The two have announced that they have been working together to develop a new single-level cell (SLC) enterprise NAND technology, dramatically extending the lifespan of flash-based storage for enterprise applications.

So far, the duo have yielded production devices capable of achieving one million write cycles - the highest write/erase cycling capability of any NAND technology available on the market and a milestone that will help propel solid state storage technology to new levels of usability.

“We expect this technology to revolutionise the enterprise storage hierarchy and be adopted by a wide range of transaction-intensive applications,” said Brian Shirley, vice president of Micron’s memory group. “[I]ncluding solid state drives and storage systems, disk caching, as well as networking and industrial applications.”

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