Intel® Solid State Drives

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Product information

• Intel® X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive product brief (PDF 162.53KB)
• Intel® X25-M and X18-M Mainstream SATA Solid-State Drives product brief (PDF 350KB)
• "What is an SSD?" animation (ZIP 29.4MB)
• Better by design animation
• Learn more about solid-state drives
• Product matrix

Intel® High Performance Solid-State Drives (Intel® SSDs) are designed to deliver outstanding performance and reliability. With no moving parts, Intel SSDs offer a quiet storage solution that responds quickly and uses less power. Compared to traditional hard disk drives, Intel SSDs are significantly more responsive, much more reliable, have lower power consumption and are completely quiet.

Intel SSDs are designed and validated specifically for PC applications using Intel's deep knowledge and understanding of PC design. Details include:

• Use of high performance Open NAND Flash Interface (ONFI) working group spec flash chips
• Parallel 10 channel architecture for high sustained read/write bandwidth
• Extremely high random access speeds (I/O operations per second or IOPs) that are tuned for typical PC applications and modern operating systems

Highly efficient internal SSD controller functions, including Intel's unique wear-leveling algorithm and low write amplification factor, enhance the SSD reliability.¹

Intel offers high-performance solid-state drives in industry-standard form factors for servers, laptops, and desktop PCs.

Desktop and notebook (client) applications

Enthusiasts demand the most from their PC. Differentiate your desktop and notebook offerings by using Intel® X25-M Mainstream SATA Solid-State Drive or the Intel® X18-M Mainstream SATA Solid-State Drive. Benefits include:

• Increased responsiveness and performance
• Solid, reliable, silent operation
• Lower power consumption for longer battery life

Server and workstation (enterprise) applications

Intel® X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drives offer the highest levels of performance and reliability for servers and high-end workstations. For use with read-intensive enterprise applications, Intel® X25-M Mainstream SATA Solid-State Drives offer a good, cost-effective solution.⁴ In addition to using the industry standard SATA interface, Intel SSDs have been validated and tested on the latest Intel®-based server and workstation platforms. View validated products.

Help remove I/O bottlenecks and lower power consumption in your customers' server and high-end workstation applications by using Intel SSDs. Your customers will get customized solutions that:

• Handle more users and respond to them more quickly
• Have higher overall system reliability because of fewer drive failures
• Reduce total cost of ownership (TCO)

¹Write amplification definition: Write amplification factor is the ratio of actual data written into the SSD's NAND Flash silicon as compared to the actual data that the host system attempts to write into the SSD device. Low write amplification is a measure of efficient storage and housekeeping algorithms inside the SSD. A lower write amplification factor improves overall SSD life expectancy by lowering the overall program/erase (P/E) cycles required to manage the data stored in the SSD during normal usage.

Wear-leveling definition: Wear-leveling is an algorithm run by the internal SSD controller. This algorithm attempts to evenly spread the program/erase (P/E) cycles across all the pages in the NAND Flash storage of the SSD, thus increasing the overall P/E endurance of the whole drive beyond the P/E endurance of the individual NAND storage cell.

²(IOPs and endurance specs) for server-based workloads

³(IOPs and endurance specs) for client-based workloads

⁴Read the spec to ensure proper fit for performance and endurance of the Intel® X25-M SATA Solid-State Drive in your enterprise application

⁵These SSDs are for internal use inside a PC system or other drive enclosure

⁶9.5mm thickness includes plastic spacer to fit snugly in most 2.5" notebook drive bays

⁷Retail box includes installation kit that contains: 3.5" desktop drive bay adapter to 2.5" SSD adapter bracket, screws, installation guide, and warranty documentation