By Darren Allan
Intel has revealed some blazingly fast new SSDs, including models which are the first drives to utilise its 3D NAND technology.
Those 3D NAND-toting beasts are the DC P3520 and P3320 series of solid-state drives. The P3320 will be offered in 2.5-inch (pictured) and PCIe card flavours, and it’s optimised for cost-effective performance, with Intel claiming it delivers no less than five times the performance of a mainstream SATA SSD, with 3.2 times faster sequential reads.
This drive, which will be available in capacities from 450GB up to 2TB, is designed for the enterprise – think cloud and data crunching applications – but it shows the sort of speed which is in the pipeline for consumers in the future.
The P3520 is a similar offering but with further performance and latency boosts for high-performance cloud operations.
Intel also unveiled the DC D3700 and D3600 range which the company notes are its first dual-port PCIe SSDs, connecting to two host systems simultaneously for redundancy if (or when) things go wrong.
Clever combo
As for SSDs which will be plonked into Ultrabooks – or indeed desktop PCs – Intel also recently revealed the new 540s series which offers a combo of SLC cache and TLC NAND for what …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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