Intel 510 series SSD

[Anvil]

@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

[F@32]

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

4K IOPS up from 35K/8.6K... Not bad, not bad. Same capacity at 25nm means lower prices. Sweet. Must resist V3 and 510...

[flamenko]

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

Egad!!! I wish I would have found this yesterday as I could have included it in my article about the new Intel/SandForce drive on the horizon. Because of the 25nm NAND, you will probably see the SandForce SF2100 SATA 3 controller within as I am going to take a guess that the Intel controller is becoming completely extinct. Alot of this, of course, is guess work but logically speaking I don't believe we have seen the end of Intel introductions just yet.

[johnw]

That's absurd. Do you have any more evidence for your wild speculation other than a picture of a Sandforce-controller SSD with IMFT flash?

For someone making such ridiculous speculations, I wonder how you could NOT have known already that the Intel 320 series SSDs were due out soon. That has been discussed in forums for weeks now.

[flamenko]

Unfortunately I can't follow every forum all the time. Although I enjoy being a member here, I am lucky if I can hit it once or twice a week now.

Wouldn't I look real foolish if I was totally wrong on this? Bookmarked.

Someone once had a vision that the world just might be round and a similar response as your was raised.

[johnw]

Someone once had a vision that the world just might be round and a similar response as your was raised.

There is a difference between "having a vision" and drawing a conclusion based on sound evidence. The vast majority of "visions" are incorrect, since they are no better than random guesses. If there is solid evidence to back up a claim, then the chances the claim is correct can be high, or near certainty, depending on the strength of the evidence.

The only "evidence" you seem to have is a picture of an SSD with 25nm flash memory and a Sandforce controller. But that was at Sandforce's booth. The simplest explanation is that Sandforce would want to get some 25nm flash memory to test with their controllers. Their only choices for 25nm flash are Micron or Intel. Just because they got the Intel-branded version of IMFT 25nm flash does not mean that Intel is going to make a Sandforce SSD. If they had happened to get the Micron version, would you now be publishing crazy articles about Micron manufacturing a Sandforce-controller SSD?