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Intel® X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive

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Extreme performance, reliability, and power savings for servers, storage and workstations

Intel® X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive

The Intel® Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive (SSD) offers outstanding performance and reliability, delivering the highest IOPS per watt for servers, storage and high-end workstations.

Reduce your Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

Enterprise applications place a premium on performance, reliability, power consumption and space. Unlike traditional hard disk drives, Intel Solid-State Drives have no moving parts, resulting in a quiet, cool storage solution that also offers significantly higher performance than traditional server drives. Imagine replacing up to 50 high-RPM hard disk drives with one Intel® X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive in your servers — handling the same server workload in less space, with no cooling requirements and lower power consumption. That space and power savings, for the same server workload, will translate to a tangible reduction in your TCO.

Better by design

Drawing from decades of memory engineering experience, the Intel X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive is designed to deliver outstanding performance and reliability, featuring the latest-generation native SATA interface with an advanced architecture employing 10 parallel NAND flash channels equipped with single-level cell NAND flash memory for even greater overall performance and reliability. With powerful Native Command Queuing to enable up to 32 concurrent operations, these Intel SSDs deliver higher Input/Output Operations per Second (IOPS) and throughput performance than other SSDs on the market today - and drastically outperform traditional hard disk drives. These Intel drives also feature low write amplification and a unique wear-leveling design for higher reliability, meaning Intel drives not only perform better - they last longer.

Validated and tested by Intel, on Intel

All Intel® X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drives are tested and validated on the latest Intel-based server and workstation platforms, for your peace of mind.

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Technical reviews

"…The X25-E increases server, workstation, and storage system performance by 100 times* over conventional hard disk drives as measured in I/Os per second (IOPS)."
– Embedded.com,
Nov. 19, 2008

Technical reviews

"…the drive is at its best handling multiple random read/write requests……The longevity and performance make it ideal server fodder."
– Slashgear, Nov. 24,
2008

Technical reviews

"….I had high expectations for the X25-E Extreme, but even those were exceeded by the drive's stunning performance. This is without a doubt the fastest solid-state drive we've ever tested…"
– Tech Report, Nov. 23, 2008

Technical reviews

"As the price of SSD drives continue to plummet, you’ll need to seriously consider taking the leap. It’s the most worthwhile upgrade you can make, and the Intel drives are amongst the best SSDs available."

Technical reviews

"Intel SSDs—along with the rise of virtualization and the boom in iSCSI SAN adoption—are undoubtedly contributing to a revolution of storage in the enterprise."

Awards

EdBest Win Gold Award Logo Business Application Tech Report Product of the Year Storage Products of the Year EDN Innovation Winner 2008

Technical specifications

Model name Intel® X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive
Capacity 32GB and 64GB
NAND Flash components Intel® Single-Level Cell (SLC) NAND Flash Memory
10 Parallel Channel Architecture with 50nm SLC ONFI 1.0 NAND
Bandwidth Sustained sequential read: up to 250 MB/s
Sustained sequential write: up to 170 MB/s
Read latency 75 microseconds
I/O Per Second (IOPS) Random 4KB Reads: >35,000 IOPS
Random 4KB Writes: >3,300 IOPS
Interface SATA 1.5 Gb/s and 3.0 Gb/s
Form factor 2.5" by 7mm industry standard hard drive form factor
Compatibility SATA Revision 2.6 Compliant. Compatible with SATA 3 Gb/s with Native Command Queuing and SATA 1.5 Gb/s interface rates
Life expectancy 2 Million Hours Mean Time Before Failure (MTBF)
Power consumption Active: 2.4W Typical (server workload¹)
Idle (DIPM): 0.06 W Typical
Operating shock 1,000G / 0.5ms
Voltage 5V SATA supply rail
Operating temperature 0°C to +70°C
RoHS compliant Meets the requirements of EU RoHS Compliance Directives
Product health monitoring Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) commands, plus additional SSD monitoring

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¹ Active power is measured on an IOMeter workload of full bandwidth 64K sequential writes with queue depth 1

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