Intel's SSD roadmap revealed!

[IntelUser2000]

http://translate.googleusercontent....gle.ca&usg=ALkJrhhmnOBvhqoqQCPyfk-VQEKAHAfN9Q

Q4 2010

X25-M Postville Refresh(Taylorsville must be the generation after this)

2.5 inch
600GB/300GB/160GB

1.8 inch
300GB/160GB

"V"
80GB/40GB

New features of Postville Refresh
-IMFT 25nm
-Encryption
-Enhanced performance


X25-E successor "Lyndonville"

Q1 2011

400GB/200GB/100GB
-Enhanced performance
-Encryption
-Enterprise Grade MLC NAND(eMLC), achieves 20K write cycles


Update: Just noticed, new SSD line!

Q1 2011

Soda Creek

Can't tell what this is. Is it another SATA SSD, a small form factor SATA, or a PCI Express SSD? What the hell does it mean by "PCIe Full SATA SSD"?

 

[tweakboy]

Good post man , nice heads up.. Wow this is crazy sizes compared to the 200GB SSD of now a days. wow Id go for the 600GB model. How much is this going to cost though my great post friend.. hmmmm 500 bones for a 600GB hmmmmm 3 times more cost then a CPU and more cost then top notch GPU . hmm

 

[Chapbass]

eh, 300gb would do me juuuustttt finneee. Plenty big to store the essentials, and also large enough to have enough extra memory sitting around to keep the speed up nice and solid. Everything else can go on a server or a traditional HDD.

 

[Idontcare]

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.hardware-infos.com/news.php

 

[IntelUser2000]

Damn, that link didn't work. Here's a better one.

http://www.hardware-infos.com/news.php?news=3661

 

[Voo]

The hardware infos post is based on this computer base article (they even got the picture from there 😉 ): http://translate.google.at/translat...ugust/intel_ssd-roadmap/%26hl=en&safe=off

Um hope that works.. couldn't you guys just learn german? 😉

According to that link "Soda Creek" will be 34nm MLC flash - with 40 and 80gb capacity. Not sure why they'd bother to bring 34nm flash AFTER the 25nm ones on the market.. though they seem to have PCIe.

Also there'll be 40gb 25nm SSDs, which should be extremely cheap.. small (wouldn't want anything less than my 160gb), but many people can get an OS and some applications in there, so maybe we'll see more non enthusiast PCs with SSDs. Half the price of the current 40gb intel V drive would be how much?

 

[darkewaffle]

I don't imagine we'd see it at half of the current V drive's price, at least not for a while. But hypothetically if it did price there that would put it around $60.

 

[pitz]

The miniPCI-E SSDs could be quite interesting.

People laugh about 40gb SSDs, but they're an extremely attractive option for business desktops. The 'big' applications these days are moving onto servers or 'clouds', so really, not much left to run locally. At $60-$80, that 'crowd' will pick a SSD any day of the week compared to a $60-$80 mechanical HDD.