Intel Z-U130 - Corporation’s First Solid State Drive

Intel Corporation announced today its entry into solid state drive (SSD) market with the Intel Z-U130 Value Solid-State Drive, which will be used in a variety of Intel-based computing platforms, such as servers, emerging market notebooks and low-cost, fully featured PCs.

Intel’s Z-U130 Value SSD is based on NAND flash memory with industry standard USB interfaces and comes with 1GB, 2GB, 4GB or 8GB of storage capacity. It provides read speeds of 28MB per second and write speeds of 20 MB per second.

“With advantages over hard disk drive (HDD) or removable universal serial bus (USB) storage devices, Intel’s Solid State Drives deliver faster boot times, embedded code storage, rapid data access and low-power storage alternatives for value PCs, routers, servers, gaming and industrial applications”, the press release says.

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This is a great advance for less power usage and faster computing in general.