From: Jim Starkey
Date: October 16 2008 4:15pm
Subject: [Fwd: Intel begins shipping enterprise-class SSDs]
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http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20081016PR203.html

Intel begins shipping enterprise-class SSDs
Press release, October 16; Michael McManus, DIGITIMES [Thursday 16 October 
2008]

Intel has begun shipping its highest-performing solid-state drive (SSD), 
the Intel X-25E Extreme SATA SSD, aimed at server, workstation and storage 
systems. The SSDs feature 50nm single-level cell (SLC) NAND flash memory 
technology.

The Intel X25-E increases server, workstation and storage system 
performance by 100 times1 over hard disk drives as measured in Input/Output 
Per Second (IOPS), today's key storage performance metric. A storage model 
which includes SSDs can also lower energy costs by up to five times, an 
added benefit for businesses focused on electricity savings.

The product was designed for intense computing workloads which benefit 
primarily from high random read and write performance, as measured in IOPS. 
Key technical performance specifications of the 32 GB Intel X-25E SATA SSD 
include 35,000 IOPS (4KB Random Read), 3,300 IOPS (4KB Random Write) and 75 
microsecond read latency, Intel stated. This performance, combined with low 
active power of 2.4 watts, delivers up to 14,000 IOPS per watt for optimal 
performance/power output. The product also achieves up to 250 megabytes per 
second (MB/s) sequential read speeds and up to 170 MB/s sequential write 
speeds, all in a 2.5-inch form factor.

Intel achieves this performance through innovations such as 10-channel NAND 
architecture with Native Command Queuing, proprietary controller and 
firmware efficient in advanced wear-leveling and low write amplification. 
The 32GB X25-E is capable of writing up to 4 petabytes (PB) of data over 
three-year period (3.7 TB/day), and double that for the 64GB version.

The 32GB capacity drive is in production and priced at US$695 for 
quantities up to 1,000. The 64GB version is expected to sample in the 
fourth quarter with production estimated for the first quarter of 2009.



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Jim Starkey
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