From the press information I was just handed we have some quick details about the upcoming products being released under the Intel brand for the SSD market.
For desktop and mobile clients we’ll see the Intel X18-M and X25-M SATA drives in both 1.8″ and 2.5″ standard form factors. They will be available in 80GB and 160GB capacities sometime in the next 30 days.
Estimated transfer rates are 250 MB/s for reads and 70 MB/s on writes. Read latency is measured at just 85 microseconds or 0.085 milliseconds.
Intel formally announces plans for solid state drives
We knew Intel was entering into the world of solid state hard drives from our news of it at Computex in June of this year but now we have the official announcement and part number data from IDF 2008. You can see our live blog from the SSD briefing by click here that details all the notes on the data Intel provided today as well as images from the press event.