Intel Introduces Tiny Solid-State Drive with High Performance, Low-Price.
Intel Corp. on Wednesday announced its new 310-series solid-state drives (SSDs) that boast small sizes (about 1.8"), high performance and modest price. The drives are designed for thin notebooks, innovative single-drive tablets and low-power, rugged embedded industrial or military applications.
Intel 310-series SSDs code-named Soda Creek measure 51mm-by-30mm, are only 5mm thick and weigh less than 10 grams. The drives deliver up to 200MB/s sustained read speed as well as up to 70MB/s sustained write speed. The manufacturer declares up to 35K read an up to 6.6K write input/output operations per second (IOPS). The new solid-state drives are available in 40GB as well as 80GB capacities and are based on 34nm multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory.
“The Intel SSD 310 Series is the first in a wave of SSD products we will introduce throughout the next year. With this introduction, Intel is offering full SSD performance in a compact, ultra-small form factorm," said Tom Rampone, Intel vice president and general manager of Intel’s NAND Solutions Group.
