Intel Ships 160 GB Solid State Drives For PCs

Intel Ships 160 GB Solid State Drives For PCs

Intel on Monday started shipping a 160-GB, 2.5-inch solid-state drive for laptops and desktops. In addition to the new X25-M, the chipmaker said it would ship next month a 160-GB, 1.8-inch SSD called the X18-M. Intel shipped 80-GB versions of the same two drives in September.



The drives have read speeds up to 250 MBps and write speeds up to 70 MBps. Both are available with SATA interfaces of 1.5 Gbps and 3.0 Gbps.

The life expectancy is 1.2 million hours of mean time before failure, and power consumption is 150 milliwatts during a typical PC workload and 0.06 of a watt at idle. Pricing was not released.