Intel New SSD

On the last July, Intel launched new solid-state drive (SSD) that much talked of have cheaper and write speed faster compare with previous type. According to Intel, SSD X25 M consumption for notebook and personal computer (PC) able to presented write performa twice better than previous serial. And new manufacture used 34 nanometer process, helped price still cheap. For information, previous Intel SSD production used 50 nanometer process. “34 nanometer process more profitable because make due from flash memory smaller so can reduce production cost,” says Troy Wilson, Marketing Director of Intel NAND product. “This fact make possiblelity foe us to reduce SSD cost prodution almost 60% from price before we introduced new technology in three quartal ago.” For 80 GB SSD, wite speed increase to 6,600 I/O operation per second (IOPS). 160 GB SSD faster with 8,000 IOPS. Meanwhile read speed still same, 35.000 IOPS. This new drive presented by Intel is SSD multylevel cell (MLC). Beside MLC version, the vendor also offered SSD single-level cell (SLC) that offered better endurance but have very expensive price. If compared, write SSD MLC performa better twice than Intel SSD SLC now. Becuse competitor like Toshiba and Samsung had already offered SSD with 512 GB capacity, Intel have plan to make more bigger capacity for they drive for the next year or first quartal of 2010. If you interesting, SSD X25-M availabel in 2.5” and 1.8” size. For 80 GB capacity price is US$ 225 till 1,000 units. Price for 160 GB capacity is US$ 440.