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VIRTUALISATION Intel drives into flash market
VIRTUALISATION Intel drives into flash market | Intel drives into flash market |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Tuesday, 13 March 2007 | |
  
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Intel expects the parts to be used in "servers, emerging market notebooks and low-cost, fully featured PCs. In addition, it will be used in Intel embedded solutions for routers and point of sale terminals." Unlike the commonplace 'thumb drives' the Z-U130 Value Solid State Drives come as small printed circuit boards designed for internal mounting. Intel claims high performance - write speeds up to 20M/sec - and high reliability with mean time between failure of five million hours. "this higher performing solid state drive is a faster storage alternative that speeds through common PC or embedded application operations such as locating boot code, operating systems and commonly accessed libraries," Intel officials said. Price is important for small storage devices, and Intel claims the Z-U130 family will soon be cheaper than 1.8in drives of similar capacities. The 8G model won't go into production until the end of 2008, but higher capacity versions are expected within a year or so.{moscomment} |
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