Intel 710 Lyndonville, 720 Ramsdale SSD Specs
There's some ludicrous speed.
German computer site Computer Base obtained some unreleased information regarding Intel's 710 'Lyndonville' and 720 'Ramsdale' SSDs that are coming down the pipe.
The 710 is using Intel's 25nm NAND flash on a SATA 3Gbps connection. Those will come in 100, 200 and 300 GB varieties and will have read and write speeds at up to 270 MB/s and 210 MB/s.
The real interesting bits are about the 720, which runs on the PCIe bus. The PCIe bus interface alludes to some pretty intense speeds, but our jaws are dropping at the read and write speeds of up to 2200 MB/s and 1800 MB/s, respectively, noted on the leaked specs sheet.
These SSDs are set to hit until Q3, so it should not be too much longer until we have the official word (and test units) from Intel.
You have not seen the price tag yet (~$3,000).
Wow... thats freakin awesome.
Wow... thats freakin awesome.
You have not seen the price tag yet (~$3,000).
SATA II is way more than enough to suffice. In fact, even the 720 doesn't need SATA III (though it's released only for the PCIe slot).
Ehmmm, it states it right in the short article that it is PCI-E not SATA, unless I missed something you both have missed the point.
PCIe bus, thats how. A PCIe 2.0 x16 lane provides 150 watts of power while SATA doesn't. Its possible that the bus itself is unable to throttle power usage or in order to obtain those speeds, they need a minimal amount of power at all times.
Still, 2200MB/s would be insane and this is probably geared towards servers mainly. It will probably be at least a 4x PCIe 2.0 as well.
Make sense since the performance is about 10x better, it use about 10x more power.
Sorry qoute the wrong comment shout be this one
Indeed, likely Intel's with the 720 have made what Ocz did with their Revo Drive line. Tons of nands and several controllers linked together with a raid chip. If so the question is what raid level is used (hopefully something like raid5 since it can handle if one of the controllers die completely but more likely raid0 due to cost) and the bigger question - Does it support trim?
Or the burst could be explained that intel uses a clever ram cache on the pci-e board, time will tell!