Intel announced at the Intel Developer Forum conference from San Francisco that is going to launch new SSD gadgets. At last the big day has come. In the day of 8th September company began selling new X18-M (1,8 inches) and X25-M (2,5 inches) storage devices, SSD with SATA interface and that are based on MLC NAND technology.New gadgets are silent, work at lower temperatures than classical hard discs. These gadgets optimize efficiency of processors, performance of system rising with up to 9 times in comparison with hard discs. Combining the experience of flash memory designing with the experience of creating processors and computerized surveys, new SSD benefits of a number of improvements such as parallel architecture on 10 channels, a superior administration of memory algorithms that allow a faster reading and writing and many others.
These two models are available with 80 GB storage capacity (till the end of the year will be also available with 160 GB). Reading speed is up to 250 MB/s and that of writing is up to 70 MB/s. The prize for those more than 1000 commanded gadgets is 595 dollars.
In 90 days it is expecting to appear Intel X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive based on SLC technology and designed specially for servers
