14 DAY TRIAL // Expected to become available later this quarter, Intel's 710 Series “Lyndonville” enterprise solid state drives have started to make their appearance in various online stores across Europe with prices debuting at €554 for the 100GB SSD.
The drives aren't available for purchase yet, but they made their way into the offer of two major European e-tailers.
Both of these online stores feature similar prices and the 100GB, 200GB and 300GB SSDs are listed at €554.50, €1108.99 and €1663.50, respectively.
The 710 Series “Lyndonville” enterprise solid state drives are meant to replace Intel's current X25-E SSDs and are built to use 25nm HET MLC Flash in comparison with the 50nm SLC NAND of their predecessors, which helps them deliver higher storage capacities at lower price points.
They will use the same SATA 3Gbps interface as the X25-E series, but, this time, Intel has paired the SSD controllers with 64MB of DRAM cache.
According to previous information, Lyndonville SSDs will be able to achieve sequential read/write speeds of 270MB/s and 210MB/s respectively, while their 4K random read/write performance is rated at 36K/2.4K IOPS (input/output operations per second).
While these speeds aren't a huge improvement over those achieved by the X25-E (the X25-E actually beats the upcoming drives when it comes down to 4K random writes), the 710 Series sports an advanced set of features.
This list includes additions like AES 128-bit hardware encryption, power safe write cache, a temperature sensor and an in-rush current limiter.
Endurance varies depending on the size of the drive and on the provisioning space used, and goes from 500TB in the 100GB SSD to 1.3PB in the 200GB unit with 20% over-provisioning. No such data is available for the 300GB drive at this point in time.
The 710-series Lyndonville SSDs have started sampling in late June, while mass production is planned for this month. (via ComputerBase)
