DGAP-News: Crucial m4 Solid-State Drive with Higher Capacities and Faster Performance Now Available
ID: 393752
26.04.2011 18:05
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Next-Generation SSD Builds on the Award-Winning and Popular Crucial RealSSD C300Key Messages:
-- Next-generation Crucial(r) m4 SSD - the successor to the award-winning
Crucial RealSSD? C300 - is now available worldwide.
-- Ideal for business customers and general consumers, the Crucial m4
incorporates Micron Technology's 25nm NAND flash design and innovations.
-- Capacities range from 64GB to 512GB in a 2.5' form factor.
-- Supports SATA 6Gb/s interface, and achieves read speeds up to 415MB/second
and write speeds up to 260MB/s.
Multimedia Elements:
-- Crucial Image Gallery
-- Crucial m4 Product Flyers
Fremont, CA and Glasgow, UK, 26 April, 2011 -- Lexar Media, a leading global
provider of memory products for digital media, today announced the immediate
availability of Crucial m4 solid-state drives in capacities ranging from 64GB
to 512GB. Designed for both business customers and general consumers, the
Crucial m4 SSD product line incorporates Micron's industry-leading 25-nanometer
(nm) NAND flash technology in a 2.5' form factor. Like its Crucial RealSSD C300
predecessor, the Crucial m4 also supports the SATA 6Gb/s interface, opening up
the data path between the host processor and the SSD, and resulting in improved
overall system responsiveness, including faster boot times and application
loads.
The new Crucial m4 SSD reaches read speeds of up to 415MB/second, a 17 percent
increase over its predecessor. Likewise, write speeds on the new 512GB capacity
have demonstrated increases up to 260MB/s, a 20 percent boost over the fastest
C300 drive1. Ideal for client computing, Crucial m4 SSD products provide
benefits for notebooks, desktops, workstations, and industrial applications,
including low power consumption, lightweight construction, and resistance to
shock and vibration.
'The new Crucial m4 SSD builds on the enormous success of its predecessor, the
Crucial RealSSD C300. As a subsidiary of Micron Technology, we're in the unique
position of leveraging Micron's NAND development and manufacturing expertise
for our Crucial branded SSDs,' said Robert Wheadon, worldwide senior product
manager. 'These next-generation m4 SSDs offer customers higher capacities and
even greater performance at affordable prices.'
Competitively priced at [Pounds]95.99 for a 64GB SSD; [Pounds]183.59 for a 128GB SSD; [Pounds]367.19
for a 256GB SSD; and [Pounds]735.59 for a 512GB SSD, the Crucial m4 SSD product line
is backed by a three-year warranty and available now at www.crucial.com/uk/ssd,
or through leading channel partners worldwide.
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About Lexar Media
Lexar Media is a leading designer, manufacturer, and marketer of NAND flash and
DRAM memory products under the Lexar(r) and Crucial brand names. Lexar Media
offers products in all major flash and DRAM memory categories, including USB
flash drives, innovative backup drives, industry-leading memory cards for
photography, and all popular form factors of memory cards for mobile devices.
Under the Crucial brand, Lexar Media offers industry-leading solid-state drives
(SSD) and more than 250,000 DRAM memory upgrades for 50,000 computer systems.
For more information about Lexar brand products, visit www.lexar.com, and for
Crucial brand products, visit www.crucial.com/uk.
Lexar Media is vertically integrated with Micron Technology, one of the largest
semiconductor manufacturers worldwide. Lexar Media, Inc. is a subsidiary of
Micron Technology, Inc. Lexar Media is a division of Micron Europe Limited, a
division of Micron Semiconductor Asia Pte. Ltd., and a division of Micron
Japan, Ltd.
Lexar. When Memory Matters.?
About Micron
Micron Technology, Inc. is one of the world's leading providers of advanced
semiconductor solutions. Through its worldwide operations, Micron manufactures
and markets a full range of DRAM, NAND and NOR flash memory, as well as other
innovative memory technologies, packaging solutions and semiconductor systems
for use in leading-edge computing, consumer, networking, embedded and mobile
products. Micron's common stock is traded on the NASDAQ under the MU symbol. To
learn more about Micron Technology, Inc., visit www.micron.com.
?2011 Lexar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Information is subject to change
without notice. Lexar, the Lexar logo, and When Memory Matters are trademarks
or registered trademarks of Lexar Media, Inc. Crucial, the Crucial logo, and
RealSSD are trademarks of Micron Technology, Inc. All other brand or product
names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
1 Write performance varies by capacity
Media Contact:
US Contact:
Kelly Sasso
Crucial
+1 (208) 363-5654
crucialpr@micron.com
www.crucial.com
UK Contact:
Joan Lunny
Crucial
+44 (0) 1355 586130
crucialeupr@micron.com
www.crucial.com/uk
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