Saturday, August 16th 2008
Intel to Debut Ultra-Fast 180GB SSDs Next Week at IDF
Trying to keep up with the competition in the eyes of Micron and its recently introduced RealSSD drives, Intel declared readiness to debut new SSDs too during IDF next week. With the SSD market heating up, Intel's new storage agents will offer bumped read/write speeds and double the SSD storage capacity we're used to see. The drives will be available in 1.8" and 2.5" format factors and offer a bandwidth of 240 MB/s read and 70-170 MB/s write. Capacities will range from 32GB and 64GB to the rather unusual 80GB and 160GB. No pricing information is available, but big toys always come with a price so don't expect them to be cheap.
Sources:
TG Daily, Expreview
23 Comments on Intel to Debut Ultra-Fast 180GB SSDs Next Week at IDF
Notice the power requirements of the Enterprise 240/170 MB/s edition compared with the consumer version. I also suspect the info is incorrect: I doubt the enterprise and consumer versions will have identical read rates, and if you look at the slide, the "took out the 1" to turn 170W into 70W.
I suspect slapdash slide with some inaccuracies. Nonetheless, Intel getting in with a speedy SSD will help get prices down and volumes up.
Check out 9 in RAID-0: www.nextlevelhardware.com/storage/battleship/
I think people are forgetting how these pwn mechanical drives. Burst speed = sustained speed.