Coming Soon Solid State Drives from Intel
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008Intel has recently announced the launch of the exiciting Performance & Value SSD product family. Initially supply will be tight with most supply coming on the client 80GB sku 1355334.
The SSD drives come in a
SATA 3.0Gbs interface
1.8″ & 2.5″ form factors
32GB to 160GB capacities
10-50X IOPS performance gains
Extended battery life
1000Gs Extremely rugged
On the X25-M X18-M mainstream lines expect 1.2Million hours MTBF / 0.15W active power or 0.06W idle Power a $400 power saving over pC lifespan!
To help differentiate between models
X18-M 160GB
18 signifies form factor i.e 1.8″
M signifies technology/market M=MLC client / E= SLC Enterprise
160GB signifies drive capacity