Quote Originally Posted by Anvil View Post
@Sam
I don't know, maybe they felt they had to release something carrying a 6Gb/s tag and this was what they were able to come up with, who knows, maybe in a few weeks the "G3" suddenly appears?

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And there you have it, the Intel 320 aka G3

Slated for a mid-April launch, the 2.5-inch 9.5mm 320 Series will use 25nm MLC NAND and is available in five capacities: 40GB, 80GB, 160GB, 300GB and 600GB.

The 320 Series will be pushed as 'the fast hard drive alternative' with performance and data reliability as two key focus areas.

Final performance figures and drive lifespan are not available yet, but we do expect them to be pretty much the same as rumored specifications so far:

250MB/sec read, 170MB/sec write
Up to 50K and 40K IOPS for random 4KB read and write respectively
30TB to 60TB worth of 4KB random writes

Link to vr-zone