Intel® X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive

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Intel® X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive
Extreme performance, reliability, and power savings for servers, storage and workstations
The Intel® Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive (SSD) offers outstanding performance and reliability, delivering the highest IOPS per watt for servers, storage and high-end workstations.
Reduce your Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Enterprise applications place a premium on performance, reliability, power consumption and space. Unlike traditional hard disk drives, Intel Solid-State Drives have no moving parts, resulting in a quiet, cool storage solution that also offers significantly higher performance than traditional server drives. Imagine replacing up to 50 high-RPM hard disk drives with one Intel X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive in your servers — handling the same server workload in less space, with no cooling requirements and lower power consumption. That space and power savings, for the same server workload, will translate to a tangible reduction in your TCO.
Better by design
Drawing from decades of memory engineering experience, the Intel X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive is designed to deliver outstanding performance and reliability, featuring the latest-generation native SATA interface with an advanced architecture employing 10 parallel NAND flash channels equipped with single-level cell NAND flash memory for even greater overall performance and reliability. With powerful Native Command Queuing to enable up to 32 concurrent operations, these Intel SSDs deliver higher Input/Output Operations per Second (IOPS) and throughput performance than other SSDs on the market today - and drastically outperform traditional hard disk drives. These Intel drives also feature low write amplification and a unique wear-leveling design for higher reliability, meaning Intel drives not only perform better - they last longer.
Technical reviews

"….I had high expectations for the X25-E Extreme, but even those were exceeded by the drive's stunning performance. This is without a doubt the fastest solid-state drive we've ever tested…"– Tech Report, Nov. 23, 2008
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Technical reviews
"…The X25-E increases server, workstation, and storage system performance by 100 times* over conventional hard disk drives as measured in I/Os per second (IOPS)."– Embedded.com,Nov. 19, 2008
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Technical reviews
"…the drive is at its best handling multiple random read/write requests……The longevity and performance make it ideal server fodder."– Slashgear, Nov. 24,2008
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Technical reviews
"….I had high expectations for the X25-E Extreme, but even those were exceeded by the drive's stunning performance. This is without a doubt the fastest solid-state drive we've ever tested…"– Tech Report, Nov. 23, 2008
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Validated and tested by Intel, on Intel
All Intel® X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drives are tested and validated on the latest Intel-based server and workstation platforms, for your peace of mind.
Product information
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View animation: "Intel Solid-State Drives: Better by Design"
View customer testimonial: Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems
View customer video: Espial IPTV Solution
Watch the video: Rackable Systems server solution achieves significantly higher IOPS performance and power efficiency using Intel® X25-E Extreme SATA SSDs as compared to HDDs
Watch the video: Verari Systems server and storage blade solutions achieve significantly higher performance/value increases using Intel® X25-E Extreme SATA SSDs as compared to HDDs
HyDrive* Disk Blade Concept: The Fusion of Intel® SSDs with 3.5” HDD Media (Verari Systems* and Intel)
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Solaris ZFS* Enables Hybrid Storage Pools - Shatters Economic and Performance Barriers (Sun Microsystems* and Intel)
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Model name
Intel® X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drive
Capacity
32GB and 64GB
NAND Flash components
Intel® Single-Level Cell (SLC) NAND Flash Memory10 Parallel Channel Architecture with 50nm SLC ONFI 1.0 NAND
Bandwidth
Sustained sequential read: up to 250 MB/sSustained sequential write: up to 170 MB/s
Read Latency
75 microseconds
I/O Per Second (IOPS)
Random 4KB Reads: >35,000 IOPSRandom 4KB Writes: >3,300 IOPS
Interface
SATA 1.5 Gb/s and 3.0 Gb/s
Form factor
2.5" by 7mm industry standard hard drive form factor
Compatibility
SATA Revision 2.6 Compliant. Compatible with SATA 3 Gb/s with Native Command Queuing and SATA 1.5 Gb/s interface rates
Life expectancy
2 Million Hours Mean Time Before Failure (MTBF)
Power consumption
Active: 2.4W Typical (server workload¹)Idle (DIPM): 0.06 W Typical
Operating shock
1,000G / 0.5ms
Voltage
5V SATA supply rail
Operating temperature
0°C to +70°C
RoHS compliant
Meets the requirements of EU RoHS Compliance Directives
Product health monitoring
Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) commands, plus additional SSD monitoring
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