Intel Corporation announced today its entry into solid state drives with the Intel(R) Z-U130 Value Solid-State Drive. Based on NAND flash memory with industry standard USB interfaces, the Intel Z-U130 Value Solid State Drive offers cost-effective, high-performance storage for a wide variety of computing and embedded platforms. With advantages over hard disk drive (HDD) or removable universal serial bus (USB) storage devices, Intel's Solid State Drives deliver faster boot times, embedded code storage, rapid data access and low-power storage alternatives for value PCs, routers, servers, gaming and industrial applications.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (BusinessWire EON) March 12, 2007 --
Intel Corporation announced today its entry into solid state drives with
the Intel® Z-U130 Value Solid-State Drive.
Based on NAND flash memory with industry standard USB interfaces, the
Intel Z-U130 Value Solid State Drive offers cost-effective,
high-performance storage for a wide variety of computing and embedded
platforms. With advantages over hard disk drive (HDD) or removable
universal serial bus (USB) storage devices, Intel’s
Solid State Drives deliver faster boot times, embedded code storage,
rapid data access and low-power storage alternatives for value PCs,
routers, servers, gaming and industrial applications.
“Solid state drive technology offers many
benefits over traditional hard disk drives including improved
performance and reliability,” said Randy
Wilhelm, vice president and general manager of Intel’s
NAND Products Group. “The Intel solid state
drive technology provides robust performance, while offering Intel’s
industry leading quality, validation and reliability for a wide variety
of embedded applications.”
The Intel Z-U130 Value Solid State Drive is the company’s
first solution in the Intel Value Solid State Drive family that will
offer different industry standard interfaces and densities. The product
comes in 1 Gigabyte (GB), 2GB, 4GB and 8GB densities. With fast reads of
28 megabytes (MB) per second and write speeds of 20 MB per second, this
higher performing solid state drive is a faster storage alternative that
speeds through common PC or embedded application operations such as
locating boot code, operating systems and commonly accessed libraries.
The drives will also be used in a variety of Intel-based computing
platforms, such as servers, emerging market notebooks and low-cost,
fully featured PCs. In addition, it will be used in Intel embedded
solutions for routers and point of sale terminals.
Intel’s Z-U130 Value Solid State Drive will
be distinguished from other solid state product offerings by its
extensive validation, including more than 1,000 hours of accelerated
reliability testing, and is expected to meet an average mean time
between failure (MTBF) specification of five million hours. The product
can be easily integrated into original design manufacturers’
designs because of its USB 2.0 and 1.1 compliant interfaces, 2x5 USB
connector and standard single-level cell NAND in thin small outline
package (TSOP) devices. The company is also considering next-generation
products that could incorporate cost-effective multi-level cell (MLC)
technology.
Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies,
products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and
live. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom.
Intel, the Intel logo, and Intel Value Solid State Drive are trademarks
or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the
United States and other countries.
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