Micron P400m Review (200GB)

Final Words

With the P400m Micron enters a new realm of competition. While the P400e was enterprise in name, the P400m is enterprise in its performance. Write consistency has improved tremendously as has write performance in general. If you have an enterprise workload that's very write intensive (think database servers, write caches), the P400m should be up to snuff.

The P400m doesn't dramatically change read performance over the P400e, but the P400e wasn't bad in that department to begin with. The P400m really modernizes Micron's enterprise 2.5" SATA offering. Endurance, performance and consistency have all improved. Within Micron's family, the P400m's pricing is competitive as well.

Take a step back to include Intel's SSD DC S3700 however and the P400m is up against some stiff competition. Intel offers better write performance and better IO consistency. At a lower price than Intel's S3700, the P400m would be a very competitive solution. If it ends up more expensive than the S3700 however, the Intel solution is the better one. We'll have to see how this one plays out once P400m drives hit the market.