IDF: Intel Announces Enterprise SSD 710-Series

[Guest]

Intel announces the replacement for the aging X25-E solid state disk drives (SSDs).

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[ojas]

The 100 GB versions will sell for $650, the 200 GB model for $1250 and the 300 GB flagship model for $1900.

Ouch...

 

[JamesSneed]

Call it enterprise and charge three times the price over the Intel 320 SSD's. Certainly priced out of reach of the consumer market. Those are some steep prices for a company to cost justify the purchase.

 

[DjEaZy]

... it's just wrong...

 

[gmp23]

O...m...goodness. That's $6.33 per gigabyte for the flagship model. Lol. Ouch is right.

 

[gmp23]

Just to put things into perspective, I just purchased a 1.5 TB HDD from hitachi for 50 bucks. I could buy 38 of those drives equaling out to 57 TB's for 1200 dollars compared to 1 drive of 300 gigs for 1200 dollars. That is insane.

 

[gmp23]

*1900 dollars*

 

[Derbixrace]

slower than the last gen sandforce drives and that expensive? intel must be crazy...

 

[stingstang]

[citation][nom]Derbixrace[/nom]slower than the last gen sandforce drives and that expensive? intel must be crazy...[/citation]
They know what they can sell, and how much they can sell it for. Convince people that 'this is what your business needs' and you've made millions.

 

[danwat1234]

SLLLLLLOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWW and only 128 bit encryption, when 25xx Sandforce controller chips support 256-bit encryption. Impressive reliability claims.
But, in this famous thread (http://www.xtremesys...-Vs-34nm/page66), the crucial m4 has passed 500TB in writes and it is still going..

Sandforce enterprise SSDs have a capacitor as well

 

[bin1127]

The speed is slow isn't it? I'm guessing the IOPS is the selling point?

 

[ProDigit10]

you sure they are replacing the x25 with the 710, or just fading out the x25, and upgrading the 510 series?