Intel Ships 32GB SATA Drives, With 64GB Version for 2009

By P J Connolly

October 16, 2008 —  Intel announced that it has begun shipments of a new solid-state SATA drive, the 32GB X25-E, and that it plans to begin shipping a 64GB version in early 2009. The company claims that the X25-E series drives are its highest-performing SSDs ever. They are built around 50nm single-level cell NAND flash memory, and are suitable for workstation, server and storage system use.

According to Intel, I/O per second (IOPS) in the X25-E is up to 100 times that of similar hard disks, with a specified performance of 35,000 IOPS in a 4KB random read, 3,300 IOPS for a random write of the same size, and a 75-microsecond read latency. The new SSDs come in a 2.5-inch form factor, offer an active power consumption of 2.4W, and are priced at US$695 for up to 1,000 drives.

The X25-E series use a 10-channel NAND architecture with native command queuing and a proprietary controller; the firmware has been designed with wear leveling and low write amplification in mind, the company noted. The 32GB model can write up to 4PB of data over three years, or up to 3.7TB per day; the 64GB version will offer double that speed.


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