14 DAY TRIAL // Even though Intel is still best known for its central processors, its SSD business seems to be picking up speed, or at least getting more of a push, with a roadmap suggesting that July is when a new storage unit of that sort will arrive.
If anything, solid state drives have been getting overall better, meaning that positive evolution is what the storage capacity, performance, endurance and affordability are experiencing.
The fact that NAND Flash chips have started to be based on more advanced manufacturing process technologies is one of the major causes for this.
The 25nm process is the one most recently completed, and Intel already has this sort of models, as do other companies.
Still, since the node is still quite young, that more SSDs based on it will debut sooner or later is a given.
The upcoming Lyndonville model from the Santa Clara, California-based company will come out later instead of sooner, about two months from now as it were.
It is a 710 series member whose capacity options include 100 GB, 200 GB and 300 GB, these being quite the jump from the 20 to 60 GB of the Larsen Creek.
Then again, the latter is intended for the Smart Response Technology, while Lyndonville is intended as an actual storage solution capable of replacing HDDs.
The report also mentioned that a line of more compact, 1.8-inch SSDs, 320 series was also slated for July release, although the performance parameters are unknown, just like those of the models mentioned above.
Previous reports placed the 710 25nm MLC-HET NAND flash-based units at up to 400 GB capacity, but this appears to have been invalidated.
What remains is to wait and see how strong a presence the Intel solid state drives prove to be on a market where SandForce SSDs are running rampant.