The Micron 5100 SSD family is the new series of SATA SSDs aimed at data-center adoption. Micron has released three flavors for specific use cases: the ECO for read-intensive workloads such as video streaming, the PRO for latency-sensitive transactional databases, and the MAX for write-intensive logging applications. All of the drives come in two form factors: 2.5-inch and M.2, and in capacities up to 8TB for the 2.5-inch and 2TB for the M.2.
For this review, we will be looking at the ECO or read-intensive drive. The 5100 ECO has several benefits that make it appealing to the data center. High capacity in a small form factor is an always-welcome benefit, as it keeps overall footprint down. As stated above, the 2.5” version runs up to 8TB and the M.2 can run up to 2TB. Micron is claiming consistent, steady state performance writes at 74K IOPS. From a security standpoint, the drives come with AED-256 bit encryption. The drive can be optimized to the workload by using Micron’s FlexPro firmware. The best use cases for the drive are Big Data, content delivery, database management, virtualized environments, and open compute.
For our review we will be looking at the 1.92TB, 2.5” model of 5100 ECO.
Micron 5100 ECO SSD specifications:
- Form factor: 2.5-inch, M.2
- NAND: Micron 3D eTLC
- Capacity
- 2.5-inch: 480GB, 960GB, 1.92TB, 3.84TB, 7.68TB
- M.2: 480GB, 960GB, 1.92TB
- Interface: SATA 6Gb/s
- Endurance
- DWPD: <1
- TBW: 0.45-8.4PB
- MTTF: 2M
- Performance
- Sequential read performance (128K): 540MB/s
- Sequential write performance (128K): 380-520MB/s
- Random read performance (4K): 93,000 IOPS
- Random write performance (4K): 9000-31,000 IOPS
