A Russian website has details of the latest generation of enterprise solid state drives of Intel released. The 710 series and 720 series to the current X25-E drives follow-up and better performance at lower prices.
The first series that Intel would release the 710. Solid state drives, codenamed Lyndonville, must in July in mass production and shortly thereafter available. The drives in capacities of 100, 200 and 400GB delivered. The drives are made with 25nm produced the-mlc-memory, assisted by 64MB cache and a sata-300 controller. The drives would transfer rates of 270MB/s for read and 210MB/s for write get, according to the Russian website Tiscom, while the iops for read and write respectively to 36,000 and 2,400 amounts.
In Q3 or Q4 to introduce the 720 series, codenamed Ramsdale, no sata interface, a pci-express interface. The drives are built using 34nm slc nand and have a large 512MB cache. The drives are a lot faster than the 710 series, both in sequential throughput as iops is concerned. The 720-series would write, with up to 1800MB/s and read with 2200MB/s. The iops figures for reading of 180,000 and for writing 56.000. The capacities of the Ramsdales would be 200 and 400GB.