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  • editor's notes:- in September 2008 - Intel launched a range of 1.8" and 2.5" SATA flash SSDs with 80GB capacity, 70MB/S write speed, 250MB/S read and 85-microseconds read latency priced at around $595.

    In October 2008 - Intel started shipping the X-25E - a fast 2.5" 32GB SATA SLC flash SSD. Read latency is 75 microseconds and a 10 parallel channel architecture enables it to sustain R/W throughputs of 250 / 170 MB/s. Random IOPS performance is impressive with a 10 to 1 R/W ratio which is inline with the best designed enterprise flash SSDs. Using 4kB blocks - random R/W IOPS are 35,000 and 3,300 respectively.

    In his October 2008 blog, Linux creator Linus Torvalds wrote about his own experience with Intel's new SSD. Just as relevant are the many comments which followed about better (and worse) products.

    In December 2008 - Hitachi and Intel announced they were jointly designing a new range of high IOPS flash SSDs with Fibre Channel and SAS interfaces for the server market. The new products, which will be exclusively marketed by Hitachi GST - are expected to ship in Q1 2010.

    In January 2009 - Intel made its first ever appearance (and a strong showing) in the 7th quarterly edition of the Top 10 SSD Companies report for Q4 2008.

    Also in in January 2009 - Kingston Technology announced it will sell rebranded high speed SSDs supplied by Intel as Kingston's SSDNow E Series.

    In April 2009 - Intel dropped out of the Top 10 SSD Companies report for Q1 2009 (ranking was #12).

    Also in April 2009 - a report on TGDaily.com said that Intel is EOLing its Z-P230 SSD module which was aimed at the netbook market.

    If you look at the 1.0" SSDs directory here on StorageSearch.com you'll see that 25 companies now make SSD chips, DOMs or modules designed to fit into very small footprints.

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