September 15, 2011
New SSD Developments From The Intel Developer Forum
There has been a lot of exciting news out of the Intel Developers Forum going on this week. The meeting has prompted a series of new product announcements from Silicon Valley giants while startups are unveiling new innovations.
Intel has announced a new enterprise SSD, or Solid State Drive, the 710 series, a 3 GB/s SATA II drive. The drive is a 25 nanometer, two bit per cell multi-level cell utilizing Intel's own High Endurance Technology, which itself is comprised of Intel's controller, firmware and high cycling flash. Drives made with this technology can support 1.2 Petabytes (that's 1200 terabytes!) of writes over their use life. Intel's 710 series will replace the more expensive x25-E series of drives and is expected to come in 100, 200 and 300 GB capacities, with prices around $6 per Gigabyte. The new line is scheduled for release in late 2011.
Other announcements from Intel includes the Cherryville SSD, the first Intel product that will use controller technology from SSD controller provider SandForce. The Cherryville SSDs will support the SATA III standard at 6GB/s.
LSI Corporation, meanwhile, have premiered their new 12 GB/s Raid on Chip which is expected to push Serial Attached SCSI from the current 6 GB/s products into the next generation. Products that utilize the technology are expected in 2013. LSI will also be showing off their new WarpDrive2 at the Intel Forum. The WarpDrive2 reportedly performs at a sustained 340,000 random read IOPs and in another demonstration exceeded 1.2 million random read IOPs. The company is also to announce a Windows Server 8 system it has collaborated with Microsoft to develop.
Intel has announced a new enterprise SSD, or Solid State Drive, the 710 series, a 3 GB/s SATA II drive. The drive is a 25 nanometer, two bit per cell multi-level cell utilizing Intel's own High Endurance Technology, which itself is comprised of Intel's controller, firmware and high cycling flash. Drives made with this technology can support 1.2 Petabytes (that's 1200 terabytes!) of writes over their use life. Intel's 710 series will replace the more expensive x25-E series of drives and is expected to come in 100, 200 and 300 GB capacities, with prices around $6 per Gigabyte. The new line is scheduled for release in late 2011.
Other announcements from Intel includes the Cherryville SSD, the first Intel product that will use controller technology from SSD controller provider SandForce. The Cherryville SSDs will support the SATA III standard at 6GB/s.
LSI Corporation, meanwhile, have premiered their new 12 GB/s Raid on Chip which is expected to push Serial Attached SCSI from the current 6 GB/s products into the next generation. Products that utilize the technology are expected in 2013. LSI will also be showing off their new WarpDrive2 at the Intel Forum. The WarpDrive2 reportedly performs at a sustained 340,000 random read IOPs and in another demonstration exceeded 1.2 million random read IOPs. The company is also to announce a Windows Server 8 system it has collaborated with Microsoft to develop.
