This Wednesday witnessed a newannouncement by Intel regarding 710 series solid-state drives. Intelis planning to replace the existing hard drive module present inEnterprise servers with the aid of SSD’s.

According to Intel, the new SSD’swill be available in numerous capacities ranging from 100 to 300GB.The SSD’s would also include the additional features like dataprotection as well as life enhancement of the drives. The informationstates that the latest innovation would completely replace the X25-ESSD’s which are known to have 30 times more endurance and werespecially built for the businesses.

The Intel sources state that the priceof 100GB version would be US$649 and that for 300GB would be $1,929only in cases when around 1000 of them are bought together. Theannouncement about the drive was made at the Intel Developer Forumrecently organized in San Francisco.

These drives are categorized under MLCSSD’s. MLC signifies multilevel cell which is used to store all thedata in multiple levels along the cell. However, they also renderfortitude of the entire single level cell (SLC) SSD’s where thedata is stored in a single cell. In terms of fortitude, the MLC’sare neither swift nor trustworthy like the SLC’s.

The information offered by Intel statesthat these SSD’s are capable of acquiring a random writeperformance. This can be measured in terms of 4K blocks, each ofwhich has a speed of 2700 I/O operations per second (IOPS). It alsohas a read performance of more than 38, 500 IOPS. The writingendurance of the SSD is of the level of 1.1 petabytes.

The new SSD 710 by Intel works on a newtechnology named HET (high endurance technology) which is acombination of management features and firmware enhancements. It isalso blessed with algorithms specifically used to reduce the dataerror.

In addition, in a joint statementissued by Intel and Cisco, the SSD’s will be available in themarket in collaboration with Cisco’s UCS B230 M2 two-socket serveravailable from September onwards.