Intel enters solid state drive market
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California Icrontian
Intel has invaded another segment of the PC market with great strides. Their new solid state hard drive product is based on NAND flash memory with industry standard USB interfaces and will be available on the market in 1, 2, 4 and 8GB densities. Intel claims the read speeds are 28MB/sec and write speeds are nearly 20MB/sec. The product will sport a USB 1.1 and 2.0 interface, and should offer high-performance storage for a wide variety of computing and embedded platforms.
Intel’s introduction to solid state drives is not too shabby; its new storage drives should be able to compete with companies such as OCZ, Crucial, and Corsair. The drive appears to be physically wider than its competitors' offerings, but that is hard to say as Intel has only provided images of the actual <a href="http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/vssdrives/vssdsm.jpg">PCB</a>.
Earlier this week, The Register <a href="http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/03/12/intel_releases_robson/" target="_blank">speculated</a> that it was the reincarnation of the 'Robson' Flash cache that had been in development, but this turned out to not be the case. Now, it's anyone's guess how this new product line will be developed and whether it is a sign of Intel simply diversifying its offerings or shrewdly introducing a complimentary product line for the future.
Intel’s introduction to solid state drives is not too shabby; its new storage drives should be able to compete with companies such as OCZ, Crucial, and Corsair. The drive appears to be physically wider than its competitors' offerings, but that is hard to say as Intel has only provided images of the actual <a href="http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/vssdrives/vssdsm.jpg">PCB</a>.
![http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/vssdrives/vssdsm.jpg">PCB</a>](http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/vssdrives/vssdsm.jpg">PCB</a>){kind=link}
Earlier this week, The Register <a href="http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/03/12/intel_releases_robson/" target="_blank">speculated</a> that it was the reincarnation of the 'Robson' Flash cache that had been in development, but this turned out to not be the case. Now, it's anyone's guess how this new product line will be developed and whether it is a sign of Intel simply diversifying its offerings or shrewdly introducing a complimentary product line for the future.
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