Intel has begun shipping 40 GB solid state drives

Intel company, without the announcement of the beginning of sales has exposed the market model of Intel X25-V. This solid-state drive capacity of 40 GB in a series of Intel Value Line is available at Amazon and other online stores. The drive, as well as presented a day earlier model from the company's Kingston, is designed to improve performance by placing the operating system for high-speed drive, while all the other files will still be stored on a traditional hard drive. At the same time offer from Intel though more comprehensive, but more sluggish: the write speed of up to 35 MB / s and reading - up to 170 MB / sec.

Drive Intel X25-V provides the number of operations per second when reading up to 25 000, while recording - up to 2500. Power consumption is 150 mW in operation and less than half of the indicator in standby mode. Guaranteed time without a glitch - 1.2 million hours. The model is a bootable disk, which is reflected in its cost: in order through Amazon, the cost of storage is just over $ 120.