Intel's New SSD 525 Series mSATA Drives To Offer 6 GB/s Connection
Intel is quite serious about the ultrabooks. After the launch of Intel SSD 310 Series mSata drives last year, Intel SSD 525 Series mSata drive is a bigger attempt at making slim and light SATA drives for ultrabooks. This new drive is supposed to be the first one to offer a full SATA 6 GB/s connection.
The SSD 525 series is based on 25 nano-meter multilevel cell (MLC) NAND flash. It just takes up one eighth space of the traditional 2.5 inch SATA drives, measuring 3.7 mm * 50.8 mm * 29.85 mm. In Intel's internal testing, using the lometer software, on a queue depth of 32 on a 8 GB logical block address (LBA), it was able to perform 550 MB/s sequential read and 520 MB/s sequential write along with random read rate of 50,000 input/output operations per second (IOPS) and random write at 80,000 IOPS.
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The SSD 525 series features 128-bit AES encryption in hardware. The drive would be available in storage models of 30, 60, 90, 120, 180 and 240 GBs. The 120 GB and 180 GB models would be shipped immediately. According to James Slattery, product line manager at Intel, this drive brings high performance to an ultra portable form factor targeted for Ultrabooks and a myriad of embedded solutions.
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The SSD 525 series is based on 25 nano-meter multilevel cell (MLC) NAND flash. It just takes up one eighth space of the traditional 2.5 inch SATA drives, measuring 3.7 mm * 50.8 mm * 29.85 mm. In Intel's internal testing, using the lometer software, on a queue depth of 32 on a 8 GB logical block address (LBA), it was able to perform 550 MB/s sequential read and 520 MB/s sequential write along with random read rate of 50,000 input/output operations per second (IOPS) and random write at 80,000 IOPS.
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The SSD 525 series features 128-bit AES encryption in hardware. The drive would be available in storage models of 30, 60, 90, 120, 180 and 240 GBs. The 120 GB and 180 GB models would be shipped immediately. According to James Slattery, product line manager at Intel, this drive brings high performance to an ultra portable form factor targeted for Ultrabooks and a myriad of embedded solutions.
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