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With so many new laptops released on the market recently I almost forgot to tell you about the great news coming from Intel. The largest developer of high-end processing solutions introduced 2 new rugged and reliable S-ATA Solid State Drives featuring low-power consume, meant to replace your current hard drives.

Intel X18-M and X25-M Mainstream SATA Solid-State Drives are developed with the multi-level cell NAND flash technology and designed for both desktop and laptop computers.

Why some consider SSD driver better than HDD? –That’s because the new technology enabled high performance and increased system responsiveness in rugged and lightweight low-power consuming storage devices. In addition, the new Intel Solid State Drives are quieter and cooler, providing faster boot and resume times, with no moving parts. The 1.8-inch Intel ≲-M and 2.5-inch ≹M proved to be 9 times better compared to standard hard disk drives, when we talk about performance.

The Intel SSD models come in 80GB at 250MB/sec reading speed and 70MB/sec writing speed, and 160GB capacities by the end of this year. The 80GB models will be available at a retail price of $595 for quantities up to 1,000.

“Validated by our rigorous testing and OEM customer feedback, we believe that we have developed an SSD that delivers on the promises of SSD computing” said Randy Wilhelm, Intel vice president and general manager of the NAND Products Group. “By combining our experience in flash memory design with our processor and computing expertise, we have added advances such as our parallel 10-channel architecture, proprietary controller, firmware and memory management algorithms that address write amplification and wear leveling issues to redefine SSD performance and reliability for computing platforms.”

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