Intel ups the guarantee on its last series SSD 320

Here is something that often occur in the world of technology: Intel plus recently its guarantee of three to five years on its latest family of solid state drives, the series of 320 Intel SSD. The company announced that he did because of his confidence in the latest features of its third-generation SSD reliability. The change of guarantee apply retroactively to Intel SSD previously purchased 320 players, too - a smart move by Intel.

Surprised by the change so soon after the Intel SSD launched 320, I asked Intel which prompted the time. The company replied that it was encouraged by the numbers, has been seen on the reliability in the flash NAND 25 nm in the DSS 320 field.

"We see already that the next generation about 25 nm NAND is also reliable if not better, than our previous generation," says Intel Troy Winslow, Director of marketing of the products. "We back up our claims of reliability by giving our clients a even longer term of the guarantee." We see this as a means of strengthening that not all SSD is created equal. »

Intel has different settings in place, although for warranty, depending on how the drive is used in vs data centers by consumers. The guarantee of the new year has five different restrictions based on the expectations of the different use; Look at the packaging box to ensure that you buy the combination of good reader/guarantee for your needs.

Consumer retail boxes include the guarantee limited to five years, based on a model of average use of 20 GB of writing a day for five years. Sold in boxes OEM (Brown packaging plain) and 50 boxes of pack can use drives in data centers and other business applications, but security has a "media wearout" clause that explains the security expires "when the use of the player has reached a predetermined usage established by Intel, limit which could lead to a term of guarantee much shorter than five years for drives used in heavy-utilisationapplications of business." "

Intel, said that the Wearout Media is determined by the implementation of the indicator smart "e9" Media Wearout attribute Intel.