14 DAY TRIAL // Intel is always working on something, and I mean more than central processing units. While the company may have quit one of its minor outlets (motherboards), it is still involved in storage, SSDs in particular.
Which is why the appearance of the upcoming Intel DC S3500 Wolfville solid-state drive did not go unnoticed.
Apparently, some bloggers from Japan have seen it already up for sale there. I suppose it fits with the Q2 vague ETA, but then, the question remains of why shipments haven't begun everywhere else.
Anyway, the SSD is based on 20nm MLC NAND Flash chips, has 450/450 MB/s transfer speeds (read/write), 4K random read speed of 72,000 IOPS, and a capacity of 120 GB to 800 GB.
On that note, prices range from $135 / €105–135 to $1,050 / €818–1,050.