Micron 1100 2 TB Solid State Drive - 2.5" Internal - SATA (SATA/600) - TAA Compliant

General Description

Micron's solid state drive (SSD) uses a single-chip controller with a SATA interface on the system side and up to four channels of Micron NAND Flash internally. Available in both M.2 and 2.5-inch form factors, the SSD integrates easily in existing storage infrastructures. The SSD is designed to use the SATA interface efficiently during both READs and WRITEs while delivering bandwidth-focused performance. SSD technology enables enhanced boot times, faster application load times, reduced power consumption and extended reliability. The self-encrypting drive (SED) features a FIPS-compliant, AES-256 encryption engine, providing hardware-based, secure data encryption, with no loss of SSD performance. This SED follows the TCG/Opal specification for trusted peripherals. When TCG/Opal features are not enabled, the device can perform alternate data encryption by invoking the ATA security command set encryption features, to provide fulldisk encryption (FDE) managed in the host system BIOS. TCG/Opal and ATA security feature sets cannot be enabled simultaneously. The data encryption is always running; however, encryption keys are not managed and the data is not secure until either TCG/Opal or ATA security feature sets are enabled.

Performance

Measured performance can vary for a number of reasons. The major factors affecting drive performance are the capacity of the drive and the interface of the host. Additionally, overall system performance can affect the measured drive performance. When comparing drives, it is recommended that all system variables are the same, and only the drive being tested varies. Performance numbers will vary depending on the host system configuration. For SSDs designed for the client computing market, Micron specifies performance in fresh-out-of-box (FOB) state. Data throughput measured in steady state may be lower than FOB state, depending on the nature of the data workload. For a description of these performance states and of Micron's best practices for performance measurement, refer to Micron's technical marketing brief, Best Practices for SSD Performance Measurement.

Logical Block Address Configuration

The drive is set to report the number of logical block addresses (LBA) that will ensure sufficient storage space for the specified capacity. Standard LBA settings, based on the IDEMA standard (LBA1-03), are shown below.

Reliability

Micron's SSDs incorporate advanced technology for defect and error management. They use various combinations of hardware-based error correction algorithms and firmware-based static and dynamic wear-leveling algorithms. Over the life of the SSD, uncorrectable errors may occur. An uncorrectable error is defined as data that is reported as successfully programmed to the SSD but when it is read out of the SSD, the data differs from what was programmed.

Mean Time To Failure

Mean time to failure (MTTF) for the SSD can be predicted based on the component reliability data using the methods referenced in the Telcordia SR-332 reliability prediction procedures for electronic equipment.

Endurance

Endurance for the SSD can be predicted based on the usage conditions applied to the device, the internal NAND component cycles, the write amplification factor, and the wear-leveling efficiency of the drive. The table below shows the drive lifetime for each SSD capacity by client computing and sequential input and based on predefined usage conditions.