EDN’s 20th annual Innovation Awards Finalists
-- EDN, February 18, 2010
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&& PREVIOUS FINALIST | MAIN | NEXT FINALIST >> Category: PCs and Peripherals Finalist: X25-M mainstream SSD on 34-nm flash memory, Intel  New variants of Intel's X25-M SSDs employing 34-nm-fabricated NAND flash memories deliver equivalent or better performance than their 50-nm lithography-based premier predecessors at a fraction of the cost. Retail channel prices for the 80-GByte X25-M variant are $225 (1,000), a 60% reduction from the original $595 introduction price of one year ago. Similarly, the 160-GByte version is $440 (1,000), down from $945 at introduction. Intel’s mainstream SSDs based on 34-nm flash memory achieve a 25% reduction in latency and 2x faster random write IOPS (input/output operations per second) versus 50-nm SSD precursors; they also deliver 56% better system performance versus a 5400-rpm HDD as measured by the PC Mark Vantage benchmark utility. By delivering up to 6,600 4-KByte write IOPS and up to 35,000 read IOPS, the X25-M leapfrogs HDDs, which only operate at several hundred IOPS, thereby providing for markedly faster system and application responsiveness. |
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