Intel Quietly Revealed Its Super-Fast SSD

So, we can finally report the all the details about the promising solid-state drives from Intel. The company is preparing two series of SSD drives: mainstream X18-M and X25-M (1.8-inch form-factor and 2.5-inch form-factor respectively) and server X25-E Extreme. The former will use relatively slow but inexpensive multi level cell (MLC) NAND, while the latter - single level cell (SLC) memory. The “extreme” SSD drives will providing 170 MB/s sustained sequential write and 250 MB/s sustained sequential read due to 10-channel Intel-designed memory access controller. The data transfer rates of the mainstream SSD drives equal 70 MB/s and 250 MB/s respectively.