Intel said it gets its performance boost from a controller that uses ten parallel channels. The channels support the native command queuing technique of the serial ATA interface enabling up to 32 concurrent operations. Chips in the drives use the Open NAND Flash Interface version 1.0 co-developed by Intel and Micron.

Intel will ship 80 Gbyte drives for desktops and notebooks within 30 days and 160 Gbyte versions early next year using its multi-level cell NAND flash chips. They will support reads at 250 Mbytes/s, writes at up to 70 Mbytes/s and 85 microsecond read latency

Servers SSD versions based on single-level cell chips, initially at 32 Gbytes shipping by the end of the year. A 64 Gbyte version will ship early next year. The server drives will support reads at 250 Mbytes/s, writes at up to 170 Mbytes/s and 75 microsecond read latency.

The server drives can deliver 35,000 I/O operations/s on a 4 KByte read and 3,300 IOPS on a 4 KByte write. The drives come in 1.8- and 2.5-inch sizes, similar to hard disks.

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