Intel Release 34nm NAND Flash SSD
July 27, 2009 | Storage | 1 CommentIntel Corporation is moving to a more advanced 34-nanometer (nm) manufacturing process of its first NAND flash-based SSD products, which are an alternative to a hard drive. The transition to 34nm will help reduce prices of the SSDS to 60 percent for PCs and laptops, and consumers who buy them because of the reduced size and advanced design.
The multi-level cell (MLC) Intel X25-M Mainstream SATA SSD is designed for laptops and desktop computers and available in 80 GB and 160 GB SSDS are data storage devices inside the computers. SSDS because no moving parts, they offer faster performance and greater energy efficiency and durability than traditional hard disk drives (HDD). A draw for players, media and technology creators passionate SSDS also played a key role in the emergence of ultra-thin and light laptops that are becoming increasingly popular because of their design , size and battery life.
The Intel X25-M on 34nm flash memory is down-compatible with the current 50nm version, and will continue to be drop-in compatible replacement hard drives (HDD). Compared to the previous 50nm version, the new Intel X25-M offers a better and faster random write latency input / output operations per second (IOPS). Specifically, Intel SSD provides a new 25 per cent reduction of latency for faster access to data, which operates at 65-microsecond latency compared to about 4000 microseconds to a hard disk.
