Intel boosts performance on SSDs and drops prices - sainanderser

Intel on Monday announced SSD DC S3700 solid drives with up to 800GB of capacity, designed to deliver improved performance and business leader efficiency.

The SSDs offer twofold faster read and 15 times faster write speed over the Intel SSD 710 serial, which were introduced in September last year, the company said in a statement.

The drives will become for sale early next year, Intel said. They will come in the 2.5-inch form factor with capacities of 100GB (US$235), 200GB ($470), 400GB ($940) and 800GB ($1880). Drives with 1.8-inch slots will come with capacities of 200GB ($495) and 400GB ($695).

The new drives are relatively cheaper than the SSD 710 series, which were priced at launch start at $649 for the 100GB version to $1,929 for the 300GB drive, when purchased in quantities of 1,000. The 100GB SSD 710 is currently priced at $476 on CDW's online stack away.

In sets of 4KB of data, the SSD DC S3700 offers random read performance of prepared to 75,000 IOPS (input/output per second) and write performance is up to 36,000 IOPS. The SSD 710 drives offered read performance of up to 38,500 IOPS and 2,700 IOPS write performance.

The newfangled drives are MLC (construction cellular telephone) SSDs, which memory boar bits of data at multiple levels in each cell. The drives merged technology to addition the survival of the drive over a five-year menstruation, Intel aforementioned. The technology, called HET (High Endurance Applied science) provides 10 full thrust writes per day.

The faster throughput takes better vantage of multicore processors, with the power to shuttle data faster between self-colored-state drives and processors. The drives consume capable 6 watts of power, and 600 milliwatts in idle, Intel said.

Agam Shah covers PCs, tablets, servers, chips and semiconductors for IDG News Service. Follow Agam on Twitter at @agamsh. Agam's e-mail direct is agam_shah@idg.com

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