The price of SSD Intel 710 Series

The Intel SSD for professional announce very expensive.

Fondeur Intel will launch its new line of SSD for professionals during the month of August. Our colleagues from VR Zone laid their hands on the characteristics and prices of these new SSD Intel 710 Series. Operator interface SATA II (3 Gb/s), the Intel SSD 710 will be declined in 100, 200 and 300 GB version. They have memory Paoc engraved 25 nm and a House with 64 MB cache controller. At the level of performance, the 710 series displays 270 MB/s read, 210 MB/s write, 38 500 4 K random read IOPS and 2400 4 K random write IOPS. They are announced with a MTBF of 2 million hours and a three year warranty.

The SSD Intel 710 of 100, 200 and 300 GB will be sold respectively $ 650, 1250-1900, is almost as much in euros with taxes. At first glance, Intel models are not really interesting since the SSD controller based on SandForce SF-2500/2600 display much higher performance: 500 MB/s read and write, read and write 4 K random 60,000 IOPS and a 10 million hours MTBF.

But Intel has not said its last word because the caster will also propose a DSS 720 Series PCI Express format. Declined in 200 and 400 GB version, these models will use memory chips SLC engraved 34 nm and a controller House operator 512 MB cache. Performance have nothing to do with the models 710 since the 720 Series will reach a 2200 MB/s read throughput, 1800 MB/s write, 180 000 read 4 K random IOPS and 56 000 4 K random write IOPS. 720 Range prices have not yet been announced.