Oct 17, 2008 (TELECOMWORLDWIRE via COMTEX) -- INTC | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Intel Corporation (Nasdaq:INTC), an IT technology company, announced on 16 October that it has begun shipping its highest-performing solid-state drive (SSD), the Intel X-25E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive, aimed at server, workstation and storage systems.
The SSDs contain no moving parts and instead feature 50nm single-level cell (SLC) NAND flash memory technology. The Intel X25-E increases server, workstation and storage system performance by 100 times over hard disk drives as measured in Input/Output Per Second (IOPS). In addition, a storage model which includes SSDs can lower energy costs by up to five times.
Intel said the product has been designed for intense computing workloads which benefit from high random read and write performance, as measured in IOPS. Key technical performance specifications of the 32GB Intel X-25E SATA SSD include 35,000 IOPS (4KB Random Read), 3,300 IOPS (4KB Random Write) and 75 microsecond read latency. This performance, combined with low active power of 2.4W, delivers up to 14,000 IOPS per watt. The product also achieves up to 250MB/s sequential read speeds and up to 170MB/s sequential write speeds, all in a 2.5" form factor.
The company said it has achieved this performance through innovations such as 10-channel NAND architecture with Native Command Queuing, proprietary controller and firmware efficient in advanced wear-levelling and low write amplification. The 32GB X25-E is capable of writing up to 4PB of data over a three-year period (3.7TB/day) and double that for the 64GB version.
The 32GB capacity drive is in production and priced at USD695 for quantities up to 1,000. The 64GB version is expected to sample in Q4 2008, with production estimated for Q1 2009.
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